There are ways to get children to see beyond the white food group and develop healthy lifelong habits. Here are some tips:

¢ Don’t let your children fill up on sugar or fat, especially less than two hours before a meal.

¢ Follow the “rainbow-on-a-plate” principle (offering foods with a variety of colors) to cover the widest range of vitamins and minerals.

¢ Get the kids involved in food preparation – measuring out and adding ingredients, stirring in milk, grating cheese and so on. They’re much less likely to reject something when they’ve invested their own time and effort.

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¢ It’s perfectly reasonable to ask children to take at least one bite of everything on their plate and to stay at the table until everyone is finished.