If you want your family to eat healthy, you have to buy healthy food. It seems simple enough. Yet we are often amazed at the conversations we have with parents concerning their family’s diet. A parent will bemoan that all their child will eat for breakfast is Pop Tarts. Or that their child will snack on Ding Dongs and Doritos all day long and then refuse to eat dinner.
If you don’t buy junk food, your kid won’t have junk to eat. And no! It isn’t better for them to have a Ding Dong rather than nothing at all; your child won’t starve. If you stock your house with a range of healthy options, eventually your children will gravitate towards those choices. Our little one loves snacking on cashews and almonds. And our oldest loves yoghurt and fruit. Now we aren’t suggesting that you have a treat free household. Everyone likes a little sweet nibble every now and then! But choose wisely. For instance, Breyer’s ice cream has a short list of natural ingredients. Or find the dye free gummy bears at your local natural food store. And make these sweet treats the exception to the supply of food in your home rather than the majority.