How to get Your Kids Snacking on the Healthy Stuff While at School

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How to get Your Kids Snacking on the Healthy
Stuff While at School
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Healthy Snacking

• Healthy snacking is as important as healthy
  eating for children to maintain a healthy weight,
  avoid certain illnesses and promote their overall
  well-being.
• As a parent, you would do everything possible to
  provide your child with not just nourishing meals
  but also healthful snacks for other times of the
  day.
• However, once children begin school, it becomes
  easier for them to get into unhealthy snacking
  and difficult for you to keep track of what
  theyre snacking on.
• To help reduce the chances of your child getting
  tempted to snack on the unhealthy stuff, we have
  put together some quick tips.

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Team Up with the School

• Engage with your childs school to know their
  snack offerings and nutritional standards.
  Typically, any schools snacking guidelines would
  promote consumption of fruits, vegetables, low
  dairy products and other foods low in calories
  and specifically good for dental and bone health.
  
• In addition to adhering to schools snacking
  standards, engage with other parents to encourage
  the school to raise their nutrition standards and
  promote a healthier snacking program.

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Educate Your Child About Healthy Snacking

• Its not enough to simply offer your child
  wholesome foods but you need to go ahead and
  teach them why certain foods are healthier than
  others and what they are specifically good for.
• This will help to not only encourage good
  knowledge of nutrition and a healthy lifestyle
  but also enable your child to make right food and
  snack choices when they are away from home.
• Insiders tips
• Get your child involved in grocery shopping and
  teach them how to read food levels and identify
  the good and the bad.
• Familiarise your child with different healthy
  food choices and get them involved when preparing
  meals.

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Pack the Good Stuff for School

• If you think your child is too young to be able
  to make the right choices when it comes to
  snacking at school, it is advisable to pack
  nutritional snacks for your child to snack on
  during recess or break time.
• Insiders tips
• Make sure the snacks you send are as appealing
  to your child as snack choices offered by the
  school.
• Disguise the taste of foods that are healthy but
  undesirable to your child. For example, offer a
  sweet dip with slices of fruits or cheese dip
  with baked vegetables.

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Miscellaneous Tips

• Children have a strong tendency to imitate their
  parents. Use this tendency as an opportunity to
  promote wholesome food choices and good eating
  habits.
• Keep healthy snacks like granola bites, healthy
  muesli bars, roasted chickpeas nuts, quinoa snack
  bars, frozen yoghurt etc. always on hand so that
  your child can avoid the temptation to grab
  whatever (soda, cookies or chips) is in their
  sight.
• Besides, you can work with a professional
  nutritionist to know the best food and snack
  choices for your growing child and encourage
  health snacking while your child is at school.

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