Hi Jenn,
There is a book out there called Eat Healthy, Feel Great by Dr Sears. He talks about "traffic light" eating. Red foods, stop can I make a better choice, yellow light are slow down foods, sometime foods and green light foods are good foods, anytime foods.
Its a great book and then you can put the choice in your child hands, for example "Today you already had a red light food, now can you make a choice of a yellow light or green light food? Ask them, what would be a green light food? What would be a yellow light food?
Also, it will take 10-12 different exposures to introduce a new food to a child. But gosh, that takes a great deal of patients. I have a 3 year old, I know.
Once a month at the Smoky Hill Libray, I present this talk to the children & parents. With the children we read the book, the will actually take little food cut outs and have to place them on a traffic light, do coloring pages and make a traffic light they can put on the refrigerator. With the parents we talk about 9 steps to a healthier family with a DVD by Dr Sears... http://www.askdrsears.com/ It is sponsored by Juice Plus and we will talk about bridging the gap of what we can't won't and don't eat with Juice Plus.
These events are free and there is no obligation to buy Juice Plus and it is such a pleasure to help families with the eating challenges we all face as parents.
The next talk will be at the Smoky Hill Library, November 22 @ 10:30 am
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Join us & have fun while you learn!