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Love Your Veggies
We get excited about vegetables, but kids need a little more of a nudge. Through the Love Your Veggies campaign, we’ve committed over $1 million to schools and organizations to help seed, and grow, a love of veggies in kids from an early age.
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10 Fresh Tips
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Tip 1: Team shopping
Let your child help pick out items in the grocery store. Discuss options and support healthy choices along the way.
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Tip 2: Play with your food
Give the kids cookie cutters to create shapes out of sandwiches, or explore new ways to add fun textures to veggies, like ridges or curlicues.
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Tip 3: Team shopping
Try and partner with another family and take turns making healthy snacks the kids can share with their close friends. Soon they’ll be keeping each other on track.
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Tip 4: A shared plan
Do meal planning for the week with your kids and talk about including veggies in terms of textures (something crunchy to accompany a sandwich, for instance, carrots or bell pepper slices) and timing — crunchy favorites for “snack attack time.”
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Tip 5: Little prep cooks
Enlist your kids to help make their own lunches. Have them work beside you while you’re preparing dinner. You’ll wind up encouraging healthy, balanced choices, and giving them a sense of accomplishment - in one fell swoop.
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Tip 6: A rainbow of color
Kids respond to vibrant colors. Deep orange, green and purple veggies let kids paint their own rainbow - while providing Vitamin A, Vitamin B and helpful antioxidants.
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Tip 7: Book smart
Choose reading materials for your kids that feature healthy eating choices. Eric Carle’s “Very Hungry Caterpillar” and the children’s classic “Stone Soup” are just a couple.
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Tip 8: Stretch that food dollar
Leftovers that make it into the brown bag the next day keep the nutritional value going while helping to shrink weekly expenses.
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Tip 9: Growing bodies
Kids make excellent helpers in the garden. Start a project to plant and grow your own vegetables, and watch them beam with pride as they bring their prize crop to the table.
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Tip 10: Snack time game plan
Make healthy options the go-to by having them prepped and ready. Try baby carrots, broccoli florets, celery stalks and sliced peppers. Good habits start when the right choices are the easy ones.
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