Comments on: How to Get Your Kids Eating 5 A Day! http://www.drgreene.com/perspectives/how-to-get-your-kids-eating-5-a-day/ Putting the care into children's health Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Alan Greene http://www.drgreene.com/perspectives/how-to-get-your-kids-eating-5-a-day/#comment-411 Alan Greene Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:38:00 +0000 http://www.drgreene.com/?post_type=guestpost&p=45064#comment-411 Great tip, Jessica, thanks! And I love hummus. The timing, visual cues, and aromas of preparing dinner stimulate the appetite – and if the only things to snack on are healthy, they can feel like a real treat. In our home we also sometimes have roasted cauliflower (MsGreene has a surprisingly delicious way to do this – so tasty we bring it to potlucks) or other roasted veggies on the kitchen counter. Or in the summer, a watermelon, partly sliced.

]]> By: Dr. Alan Greene http://www.drgreene.com/perspectives/how-to-get-your-kids-eating-5-a-day/#comment-408 Dr. Alan Greene Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:20:20 +0000 http://www.drgreene.com/?post_type=guestpost&p=45064#comment-408 Great tip, Jessica, thanks! And I love hummus. The timing, visual cues, and aromas of preparing dinner stimulate the appetite – and if the only things to snack on are healthy, they can feel like a real treat. In our home we also sometimes have roasted cauliflower (MsGreene has a surprisingly delicious way to do this – so tasty we bring it to potlucks) or other roasted veggies on the kitchen counter. Or in the summer, a watermelon, partly sliced.

]]> By: Jessica http://www.drgreene.com/perspectives/how-to-get-your-kids-eating-5-a-day/#comment-407 Jessica Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:52:00 +0000 http://www.drgreene.com/?post_type=guestpost&p=45064#comment-407 One of my best tips is to put out fruit and veggies as I’m preparing dinner. This is when they have started to “starve to death” and can’t wait another minute before dinner. I leave a plate of carrots, cukes, broccoli, cauliflower and peppers w/homemade hummus on the counter or maybe a fruit plate to pick from. They can often get a serving or two in before dinner (I also reduced the serving sizes of the meat, bread or starchy foods that went with dinner since they just put a bunch of great foods in their bellies).

I also sneak them in fruit smoothies and pasta sauces on top of offering them authentically.

Thanks for the article.

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