Your kids can only benefit from eating the KISS way too! KISS is not a diet, it is a LIVE it! Getting that junk out of our bodies only can help them! So how do you incorporate it for them?
~Holidays or at other people's houses. EDUCATE them on healthy choices. Help them make good choices. Give them 75% or darker chocolate in their easter baskets or stockings along with healthy trail mix, granola bars and lots of fun ACTIVE things. Balls, Jump-Rope, Bubbles, Hopscotch Puck etc. If they have to have candy let them choose one or two pieces and give the rest to the garbage can.
~Let your friends and family know that your family doesn't drink soda or sugar juice. Water is always best, but if you must have juice, make sure it is 100% and water it down. Send your kids with snacks for a sleepover or playdate! They can be a good influence on their friends.
~Pack a healthy cooler lunch for them too. Have them eat at recess and lunch if possible. Make a peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread and slice up strawberries or bananas instead of jams or jellies. Make a tuna or chicken wrap with plain greek yogurt and a little vinegar instead of mayo lots of lettuce and veggies, Crackers and cheese and fruit kabobs, Pasta salad with lots of veggies. Pack veggies and healthy dip like hummus. Fruit and nuts.
~Let them help you in the kitchen. They are more likely to eat what they help make.
~Let them choose a new fruit and veggie at the store and help find a reicpie to use it in.
~Make it fun! Take them to the farmers market or a co-op, or local farm. When they have a fun experience they equate happy feelings with eating good.
~Keep healthy snacks within their reach. Bottom shelves of your fridge should have healthy cut fruit and veggies, dip, low fat cheeses and easy to assemble snacks. Keep a snack shelf in your pantry with healthy unsweetened dried fruit, nuts, low sugar jerky, triscuits or melba toast, granola bars
~Make things ahead and freeze them. Smoothie popcicles and Muffins work well for this.
~Make it interesting. Color, flavor, texture make it fun.
Best of luck! KISSes!
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