Here’s today’s bite-sized Hands-On Nutrition strategy! Strategy #6: Don’t leave home empty-handed! Stock your bag, car, or desk with your own “convenience food”—plastic bags of baby carrots, fruit, cheese sticks, popcorn, peanut butter and crackers, trail mix, pretzels and containers of applesauce, puddings, and yogurt to avoid the convenience store’s overpriced sugary and fatty temptations. […]

Here’s today’s bite-sized Hands-On Nutrition strategy! Strategy #5: Live it, don’t preach it! If you never teach nutrition to your kids, but just serve as a great role model—thoroughly enjoying healthy foods, crunching on baby carrots throughout your day, placing on your desk a different new fruit each day for a snack, drinking water, munching […]

Here’s today’s bite-sized Hands-On Nutrition strategy! Strategy #4: Make family or class time, healthy time! Visit a farmer’s market, apple orchard, pick-your-own berry patch, or community farm to show kids where real food comes from. Then, let kids taste fresh fruits and vegetables picked right off the vine! Make a food map of your community, […]

Here’s today’s bite-sized Hands-On Nutrition strategy! Strategy #3: Spread the word: Good Eaters Make Great Learners! Studies show that breakfast eaters do better in school, score higher on tests, and have fewer behavioral problems. Make breakfast the most important meal of the day. Anything nutritious is better than nothing for breakfast, so don’t leave home […]

Here’s today’s bite-sized Hands-On Nutrition strategy! Strategy #2: Make “Read It Before You Eat It!” your family’s and classrooms’s snack time slogan! So that you’re not surprised by what’s inside, teach kids to read the Ingredient and Nutrition Facts labels to find out what’s really in the food they’re choosing. Make a matching game at […]