Tips for Healthy Eating on the Run with the Kids
Getting to work, school or day care on time can be one of every day’s greatest challenges for many families. Breakfast, the first meal of the day, can end up being eaten in the back seat of the car!
If this is the case, and depending on the food choices you make for this kind of eating on the run, it is possible that your kids may be getting way less protein than they should from an equivalent meal at home. To improve the quality of the nutrition from breakfast-in-the-car, select from the following kinds of foods instead of standard takeaway donuts and flavored milk.
Select foods that travel well. Fruit and vegetables along with peanut butter on wholegrain bread or crackers don’t require refrigeration.
Make fruit and vegetables accessible for young eaters. Research from Cornell Food and Brands Lab reveal that kids are 12% more likely to eat an apple if it is cut up. Baby carrots and strawberries are ready to eat alternatives. Sliced low-fat cheese, rice crackers and bags of rolled oats or shredded wheat are other healthy choices.
You determine the food portion size. Use small plastic bags and the kids will think they are getting plenty!
Think about Takeout Treats. If all else fails and you need to get breakfast to go, make sure the food selection there is always chicken not burgers, grilled not fried, and milk or water not shakes.
Going the movies with the kids may be part of your weekend family fun. If so, follow these suggestions when eating on the run there so you all stay healthy and still enjoy the movie.
Plan movie treats before you leave home. A small, individual box of raisins, trail mix or nuts can last the distance of most movies, especially if they have you on the edge of your seat.
Prepare and package your own popcorn. Research shows that plain popcorn with a seasoning of your choice like hot chili sauce or paprika is a much healthier alternative to a tub of popcorn swamped in melted butter and seasoned with lashings of salt.
Pre-arranged movie food like this is always healthier for your kids. It reduces the possibility that they will join the ranks of those mindless movie munchers who eat, unaware of how much they actually consume. Healthy eating on the run at the movies can be more ‘cool’ by including an ice cream cone, lollypop or a soda.
Warm regards
Rowena French
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Transforming Lives, One Person at a Time
Rowena French strives for a food, work, life balance. For more ideas about how to maintain a healthy body while eating on the run, read her other articles posted on this blog. Read her website http://findweightlosstips.com/ for more weight loss tips and to speed up your metabolism try her suggestions on http://www.speedupmymetabolism.com/
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