Healthy Eating

When you live in such an obese country, it is important to teach children at a younger age to make healthy food choices.  Children need to learn to keep their body healthy and to understand the consequence when they do not. Being obese causes an increase in diseases and health problems. Children need to be aware of the variety of food out there knowing which ones are healthy and unhealthy for them   Parents and teachers should try to promote and model healthy eating every time with the children.   

Healthy Recipe children will enjoy.

Recipes (Taken from the book Good Enough to Eat by Lizzy Rockwell)

1.Little Dippers (8 servings)

 INGREDIENTS

½ cup of fat-free plain yogurt

½ cup of nonfat sour cream

½ teaspoon garlic salt

3 dashes

4 stalks celery

1 red and 1 yellow pepper

1 bag peeled baby carrots

1 pint cherry tomatoes

1. Combine the yogurt, sour cream, garlic salt, and Tabasco sauce in a bowl. Mix together with a spoon.  Cover the dip and store in the refrigerator while your prepare the vegetables.
2. Wash the vegetables. Ask an adult to cut the celery into sticks. Cut pepper in half.  Remove stems and seeds.  Cut halves into long, thin strips.  Leave the carrots and tomatoes whole.
3. Arrange the vegetables on a platter with a bowl of dip in the center. DIP IN!

Little Dippers supply Vitamin A and C, B vitamins, calcium, iron , potassium, sodium, water, protein, and fiber.  One portion contains 75 calories, and gives you one serving from the vegetable group and a quarter serving from one dairy group.

  

2. Yogi Pops (6servings, 2 pops each)

 2 cups fat-free vanilla yogurt

10 strawberries, washed and with stems removed

1 banana in 6 pieces

½ cup of pineapple juice

1. Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend on high until smooth and pink.
2. Pour the mixture into twelve 3-ounce paper cups. Place a Popsicle stick in the middle of each cup.
3. Cut out twelve 3-inch-square pieces of foil.
4. Poke a hole in the center of each piece of foil. Cover each cup with the foil while guiding the Popsicle stick through the hole.  Crimp the foil around the edge of cup.
5. Place the cups in the freezer and freeze until solid. This will take around 6 hours.
6. Remove the foil and peel off the paper cup. ENJOY!

 Yogi Pops supply calcium, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, potassium, carbohydrates, water, protein, and fiber.  Two pops contain 110 calories and give you half serving of dairy and half a serving of fruit.