Jun

Healthy Eating for the Family Part 2

Sugar is another ingredient that seems to be everywhere both in plain sight and hidden away in the list of ingredients. Most of the sugar in children’s diets comes from sugary drinks, along with sweets, biscuits and chocolate.

Swapping the sugary drinks for water or diluted, unsweetened juice can really make a difference to the amount of sugar consumed.

Also, you can change the sweets, biscuits, chocolate and cakes for fruit, unsalted nuts, breadsticks or rice cakes.

Smoothies and frozen fruit juice lollies are also good snacks.

Having vegetable sticks to dunk in dips is another good way. Cutting up sticks of carrot, cucumber, peppers and even broccoli to dunk in humus all count and they taste good too.

Having a piece of fruit instead of a biscuit or chocolate bar isn’t going to be the popular choice with children, but it will make a difference. Opting for sweet fruit such as apples, grapes or peaches can make the transition a little easier.

Adding sweetcorn or sugar snap peas to your main meal (along with the other veg on the plate) also counts.

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