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10 Healthy Snacks For Kids


Make eating healthy easy and kid-friendly!

1.     Popsicles with 100% fruit juice
2.     Fruit sandwiches with low-fat cheese
3.     Peanut butter and fresh fruit
4.     Fruit and low-fat yogurt
5.     Fruit smoothies
6.     Fruit cups
7.     Fresh fruit more...

5 Ideas to Make Family Meal Planning Fun

Courtesy of Obesity Action Coalition

Healthy Kids Start at Home
by Chef Dave Fouts and Vicki Bovee, MS, RD

Here are some suggestions to get you started with a theme:

1. ABC Menu – Plan a more...

Innovative Lunches Using Leftovers


 
By Dawn Harris, WorkitMom.com Contributor
 
WorkitMom.com is a blogging community and resource center for working moms by working moms. Check out Work it Mom for parenting more...

Expert Tips for Healthy Kids from USA Today


A recent USA Today article compiled a list of 13 top tips from health and nutrition experts for raising healthy and active kids that may be just the thing you’re looking for. Here are 5 of our favorite healthy eating tips from the experts:
 
 
Plan healthy, tasty more...

Kids LiveWell Recipe Challenge Is Changing Kids’ Menus


Have you been asking for healthier kids’ menu choices? More Kids LiveWell dietitian-approved choices at your favorite restaurants? The National Restaurant Association is answering the call with the second annual Kids LiveWell Recipe Challenge, sponsored by founding partner McCormick For Chefs and Healthy Dining’s team of registered dietitians. The annual Kids LiveWell Recipe Challenge provides a unique challenge to chefs to use their culinary creativity to design kid more...

How to Make Bento Lunches

WorkitMom.com is a blogging community and resource center for working moms by working moms. Check out Work it Mom for parenting tips, career advice, craft ideas, quick kid friendly recipes, and more. 

By Jennifer Howard, WorkitMom.com Contributor

There are many reasons why I chose to make bento lunches, but the more...

Making Fruits and Veggies Fun


Do your kids like eating their fruits and veggies? Do they rave about broccoli rabe? Kiss up for cabbage? Plead for pears? No? You’re probably saying something like, “Get real!”—and you’re not alone.

Sometimes, it seems like no matter how you try to cajole, convince, entice, or flat-out bribe them, your kids avoid eating healthy fruits and veggies at all cost. Even top nutrition experts can have a hard time tempting their little ones to eat more...

Kids Eat Well at Fresh to Order (F2O)

While some restaurant brands are scaling back on their kid's menu selections, others are ramping them up.  Not only are more restaurants expanding the options available on the kid's menus, but some are taking a closer look at how they can make their menus healthy for the whole family. 

At Fresh to Order in Atlanta, chief operating officer Jesse Gideon knows teaching children to order more healthfully in restaurants not only bodes well for them, but also for more...

Papouli’s Greek Grill and Daydreams of the Mediterranean

I have to admit to you that I have dreams of someday heading to the Mediterranean.  I daydream of soaking up the sun while breathing in the history and culture of such an ancient land.  I indulge in visions of eating leisurely meals of olives and fresh fruit with a glass of wine while watching the blue, blue sea.  And then I step on a Lego that my son has left on the floor and am quickly brought back into the day-to-day reality of hectic family life and out of my daydream.  more...

Restaurants Becoming More Kid-Friendly

Courtesy NRN.com

Healthful kids’ offerings are increasingly becoming the focus of restaurants who more...

5 Great Meals for the Whole Family

My kids love burritos, tacos, and any variation of them—and they’re not alone.  There is something about the combination of beans, rice, tortilla, grilled meat, and the many cool toppings—like lettuce, tomato, and salsa—that we can all appreciate.  So it’s no mystery that El Pollo Loco is often an easy choice when we need to pull together a meal with zero preparation time. 

One of their several locations is usually on the way home; they more...

Spotlight on Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC

 
  • Nutrition Consultant
  • Certified Athletic Trainer
  • Nutrition Expert for FoodNetwork.com
  • Sports Dietitian and Clinical Professor, Quinnipiac University


AJM: Hi Dana! Your more...

These simple changes = healthier future for kids


Have you heard of the Healthy Kids Today Prevent Cancer Tomorrow Campaign?  The American Institute for Cancer Research, in conjunction with Superkids Nutrition, has started this campaign with the belief that “making simple changes, like eating healthy foods and moving more each day, has the power to give your children a healthier future.”  As part of the initiative, individuals can download toolkits that more...

9 More Restaurants Join Kids LiveWell

Since July of 2011, restaurants nationwide—large and small—have been joining the Kids LiveWell initiative to help families make healthier choices when dining out.  We at Healthy Dining are proud to be collaborating with the National Restaurant Association on such an innovative and important program that contributes to the health of Americans.  Each month we welcome new restaurants and delicious menu items to the program, giving parents, grandparents, care-givers, and kids more...

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