From first months of life, children should follow healthy eating habits. A healthy diet will help you maintain a adequate weight and normal growth. In addition, the correct eating habits that they learn from a young age will help them lead a healthy lifestyle in the future.
These are the tips that we propose so that your children eat well:
Bet on the Mediterranean diet
The Mediterranean diet includes the necessary nutrients for the little ones to have a correct growth. It includes food of high nutritional quality: olive oil, fish, cereals, dairy products, legumes, fruits, vegetables ... The best complement to accompany this ?: To drink, water.
Five meals a day for a healthy diet
Spanish pediatricians and nutritionists recommend distributing calorie intake over five meals a day. These consist of a Full breakfast, mid-morning lunch, lunch, snack and dinner. In this way, we ensure that children get all the nutrients they need and snacking between meals is avoided.
Avoid foods that make you fat but don't feed
Foods that contain excessive sugars, saturated fats and abundant salt, should constitute a exception in diet of the little ones. And even more so if they do not provide micronutrients. These foods include: fried, sweets, pastries and snacks. Eating fast food should not become routine either.
Guide you through the food pyramid
The food pyramid is a very useful instrument to know the adequate servings and how often food should be eaten. It can be fun explaining it to your kids and designing menus together that meet the criteria you set.
Be creative when cooking and include your children in this task
Children will surely eat a greater variety of foods if you prepare them in different ways and not always with the same flavors. If you also include them in the task of cooking, it is likely that they become much more involved. Make food a varied and creative habit and teach them from a young age the importance of good nutrition. Teaching them simple recipes or asking them to help with the decoration of the dishes helps a lot!