32. How Can You Be Sure Your Children Are Getting The Nutrition They Need?
Most parents would worry that if they keep their children from eating those fatty foods that they love, and only offer vegetables, that the children will starve, or have nutritional deficiencies. These parents feel that the kids will just not eat the food. If you think about it this way, how much nutrients are they receiving from the fatty, processed foods now? If their diet consists of French fries, mashed potatoes, apple sauce, chocolate pudding, and maybe chicken fingers, how could it be worse if you only offer fruits and vegetables? Sure, maybe they will demand to have the foods they like, and not eat. They will eventually get hungry and if you keep offering fruits and vegetables and do not give in, you will see that they will begin to enjoy it, especially if they see everyone else in the family eating healthier.
Incorporate bean soups, such as yummy lentil soup and if that doesn’t work make your lentil soup into a “lentil burger”. You may have to gradually change their eating styles. Try making fresh bean and/or vegetable soups with some cheese sprinkled on it. Make sure it is tasty, and not too spicy. Make homemade pancakes with wheat and only sweeten it with pure raw honey. Make fruit shakes and throw in a carrot or romaine lettuce. Make tasty salads with homemade dressings….and also make faces out of the tomatoes and cucumbers and carrots. Make tasty salmon and have them try it.
There are so many possibilities and recipes that you can try. Do not give up on your child because they have shown a dislike for a vegetable or fruit. Just eat it around them and watch them ask you for a piece. Keep offering it to them at dinnertime and ask them to eat a couple of bites.
If children eat plenty of fruits and green leafy vegetables, they are also getting their calcium requirements. But you could also include some almond milk or rice milk if you want.
The focus is to keep introducing them to new foods so that they develop a taste for natural foods that we as humans were meant to eat.
Other Articles:
1. What Is The Raw Food Diet?
10 - Sproutarian
11 - Juicearian
12 - Raw Nourishment
13 - Junk Food
14 - Cooked Foods On A Raw Diet
15 - Eat Raw Up Until Dinnertime
16 - Vegan And Raw Food Restaurants
17 - Organic Products And Raw Food Diet
18 - Why Organic
19 - Transform Your Fridge
#2 Why The Raw Food Diet
20 - Tools For Preparation
21 - Juice Vs. Blend
22 - Benefits Of Juice
23 - Types Of Juicers
24 - Dehydrate Fruits
25 - Food Dehydrators
3 - Raw Food And Skin Health
33. Why Go “raw”?
4 - Skin Tone Drinking Water, Coconut Milk, Etc.
5 - Raw Food, Less Water
6 - Why Not Processed Foods?
7 - Vegetarian Compared To Raw
8 - Raw Only?
9 - Fruitarian
49 Christmas Food
50. Eating Organic And Going Raw Can Get Expensive. Here Are Some Tips.
34. Final Note: Why This Is Not A Fad Diet? Humans Have Been Eating Fresh Fruit, Vegetables, And Nuts 10-50,000 Yrs Or More B4 We Discovered Fire, Tools And Implement To Kill Animals.
32. How Can You Be Sure Your Children Are Getting The Nutrition They Need?
New Raw Food Recipes
Raw Food Diet Isn’t Really A Diet
Eating “raw” Triggers Detoxification
Detoxification
Detoxification Hurdle To Pleasurable State
31. Can You Feed Your Children Raw Food?
35. Great Foods That Pass Through Body Quickly And Easily
36. Eating Foods That Are Hard To Digest
37. You Can Get Plenty Of Calcium From Green Leafy Vegetables; Cow’s Milk Isn’t The Best For Your Body..
38. Why Would You Consider Getting A Colonic As A Part Of Your Detoxify Program?
39. An Enema Will Also Keep The System Clean And Fresh, Detoxified.
40. Drinking A Daily Vitamin Packed Drink Of Your Choice That Includes Romaine Lettuce, Celery, Stalks Kale, Apples, Lemon, And Fresh Ginger (or Make Your Own Drink)
40. Why You Should Only Take Sips Of Water During Mealtime? Large Glasses Of Water Impedes The Digestive Process By Diluting The Gatric Juices.
42. Although It Is Difficult For Some Of You To Transform Your Diet Completely, You Do Not Have To Go 100% Raw. You Can Incorporate Natural Alternatives To The Foods You Were Eating (such As Organic Raw Peanut Butter And Not Regular Peter Pan). You Can Also Purchase All Organic, Stay Away From Cow Milk, Incorporate Plenty Of Fresh Fruits And Veggies And Only Drink Water And You Have Dramatically Changed Your Life Already!
43. Why You Should Not Drink Cow’s Milk?
44. Why You Should Reconsider Consuming Soy Milk Often? Soy Is The Most Mucous Forming Food On The Planet.
45. The Next Best Alternative To Ice Cream? Easy To Make Homemade Sorbet. (fresh Fruits)
46. Find Natural Alternatives For Flavor!
47. No More Cans! Fresh Is The Way To Go!
48. Ethnic Restaurants - What To Eat And What To Avoid Like The Plague