Feeding your children is much easier with these tips

Having a baby who already consumes solid foods or young children does not have to disrupt your daily kitchen . What matters is to think about family meals and offer children healthy foods and meals so that they get used to a healthy and balanced diet from a young age. This will reduce the risks that in the future they will be overweight or obese and that the whole family can also have healthy nutrition.

If you don’t know how to make infant feeding a success and help your children learn to eat healthy, follow these tips. Your kids will eat wonderfully well!

BE YOUR BEST EXAMPLE

The most powerful tool is to be a good example of nutrition and food for your children. This means that your day to day consists of having a healthy and balanced diet. Your children will see it and they will also eat what you are eating. They will see this diet as normal in their lives and they will not need to eat processed or less healthy food.

COOK REAL FOOD

This means that you think about real food; meat, vegetables, greens and fruits. It is what you need to stay well fed and find balance in a diet. Leave out processed or ‘unnatural’ foods. Nature provides us with healthy food for us to consume, take advantage of this.

MAKE FOOD EASY TO EAT

To make it easy to eat, you need to familiarize yourself with boiled, steamed or cooked foods. For example, roasted carrots, bananas cut into strips, cut fruit, pieces of whole wheat bread for children who already know how to chew and swallow, steamed vegetables, etc.

MAKE MEALS FOR EVERYONE TO ENJOY

Don’t cook multiple meals. Think of a family meal for everyone in the family. If you make lentils, it will be lentils for everyone. There are many healthy dishes that you can cook that your children also have and should eat. Think of a healthy family diet that is ideal for everyone. Remember that if you have doubts you can always go to your trusted doctor or nutritionist to give you some guidelines.

LESS SALT

It is not necessary to add salt to every meal. While it is true that a certain amount of salt is healthy, it is advisable not to overdo it. Salt can be harmful to health, so you can also season foods with spices that will give each dish a good taste and will be even healthier.

NATURAL SWEETS

Although children like trinkets a lot, it is better to avoid them and if they consume them, they should be at specific times. Therefore, you can think of another healthier style of ‘treats’ such as frozen yogurt ice cream, fruit cakes, homemade cookies, fruits with melted dark chocolate, etc.

HEALTHY SMOOTHIES AND JUICES

Forget the juices and smoothies on the supermarket shelves. They are usually not healthy at all. Choose better to make juices with natural fruits without added sugar or fruit smoothies and a little milk. The taste will be excellent, your children will love it and they will have all the nutrients without anything harmful to their body.

In addition to following these tips, it is a good idea to keep in mind that you must be patient and never force children to eat when they do not want to. It is better that you present food to them every day, so that they get used to it and that you are their best example of healthy nutrition. Over time, and after having seen that food on the table many times, you will end up accepting and eating it, you will like it, and then eating will be much easier.