Most parents have become so health conscious that they try to give their kids the most nutritive and healthy meals. Of course, healthy eating is very important to stay healthy and to live long. However, in as much as every parent wants the best for their kids, it isn’t exactly easy to cultivate this healthy lifestyle in children. For instance, it’s not an easy task to keep kids away from junks, unhealthy snacks or to oblige them to finish their vegetables. Well, this is quite understandable because food represents much more than minerals and vitamins. The truth is that keeping nourishment aside, food can also be fun, a treat or even a learning opportunity. That said, here are a few tricks to surprising your kids with healthy and creative meals.

• Serve dinner for breakfast
Sometimes, you can surprise your kids with a healthy meal by swapping breakfast with dinner. This is highly advisable in a situation where you have leftovers from the previous night’s dinner. Of course, the dinner needs to be healthy and balanced. Moreover, you can always also make fresh breakfast with items that are ideally recommended for dinner. For instance, if your kids love pizza a lot, you could inculcate it into their breakfast, while making sure that you add lots of healthy vegetables or fruits to it.

• Involve the kids in cooking
Once in a while, you can as well involve your kids in cooking. The rational here is that most kids will likely eat what is made by them. This idea is however highly applicable to kids who are picky eaters. The best way to do this is to give the kids an opportunity, maybe once in a week, to plan and make a meal. Even though this could be tedious, you can be rest assured that your kids will learn to eat some of the healthiest foods made by them.

• Allow junk food once in a while
Another way of encouraging your kids to eat healthy meals is to say yes to junk once in a while. We all can’t argue the fact that chocolates are yummy and that chips complement sandwich nicely. After all, even parents eat junk sometimes, so what more of kids? Therefore, even though it is good to offer your kids healthy choices regularly, it won’t hurt anyone if you relax once in a while. The truth is that forbidding your kids from certain foods only makes them to be more interested in those foods.

• Learn to play with food
Playing with food is also another great way of surprising your kids with healthy meals. The best way to achieve this is by not taking meal times too seriously. There are actually many ways of playing with meals, but you just need to keep exploring the different options that interest your kids. For example, you could arrange your food in unique shapes to keep the kids interested in them. Besides, you could as well come up with creative names for meals that will intrigue your kids and make them develop an interest in meals they would ordinarily not enjoy.

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