Healthy Summer Snacks for Kids

One of our biggest challenges as moms is to feed our kids a healthy diet that they will actually eat. The busy, hot summer days add the extra problem of having the school agers at home all day long. They want snacks and they want them now!  They don’t care if the food is wholesome or junk, in fact they’d often prefer the latter. So begins the battle of what mom wants versus what they want. Here are a few ideas that have helped us reach a compromise.

Presentation is key. If it’s fun it’s a winner. If I put some pineapple chunks, grapes, and banana slices on a skewer and call it a fruit kabob they are on cloud nine.

Healthy Eating for Kids

For your children to be as fit as possible, you may want to check out the following tips about healthy eating for kids. We all want our kids to eat healthy food, but that doesn’t always happen even with the best of efforts on our part.

Nutrients for Healthy Kids

Energy
Energy is not a nutrient, rather the fuel that our body needs to function. The main sources of energy are carbohydrate, protein and fats. They are measured in kilojoules (metric) or calories (imperial) and there are 4.18 kilojoules to 1 calorie.