Parents often complain that their children cause trouble in eating. Mothers usually get tired running after their kids. Even if mothers do not want their children to eat unhealthy food, they cannot make them to eat healthy and rich food. Children usually hate eating vegetables. They like fried chips and hamburgers with soda drinks.
Parents should discuss importance of eating healthy food with their children. Moreover, they should become role model for their children by changing their lifestyle of eating processed food to clean and healthy eating. It is not a matter of one day. It is a life style.
Here are few ideas to make healthy meal attractive for children:
1. Choose alternatives to unhealthy foods. Instead of consuming fried food, switch over to baked food.
2. Involve children in cooking. Make cooking a fun. Guide them to use low-calorie dressing in their meals.
3. Give incentives for replacing their soda with milk or milk shakes with meals.
4. Utilize cookie cutters to make funny meals like sandwiches of brown bread with low-calorie peanut butter etc.
5. Socialize children to eat raw veggies like carrots and tomatoes with their meals.
Mothers can utilize these tips to avoid and control obesity among their children. Parents should know that obese children turn themselves to be obese adults. Obese adults are more prone to cardio-vascular problems.