Healthy Eating Tips

Healthy eating tips are to help us live a healthy life. Changing to eating habits can be difficult for kids, teenagers, and adults who are used to convenience foods. Without even mentioning the word ‘vegetables’, and quietly adding more vegetables to meals, you’ll find your kids and you eating a healthier diet. Of course, it also means not buying high fat foods!

Here’s how:

• Chop and/or grate vegetables finely and add them to pasta sauces, mashed potato, soups and stews, even pizza and frittata
• Roast vegetables are sweeter and very appealing
• Also add lentils, baked beans, or barley to soups or stews
• Serve bigger portions of their favourite veggies (sweetcorn, peas)
• Serve smaller portions of dairy
• Put a variety of raw and cooked foods on the table – let kids choose for themselves

Healthy eating tips for snacks:

• Have popcorn, chopped fruit, julienned carrots, celery on hand for after school/weekend snacks
• Serve baked lebanese (flat bread) or pita chips with salsa
• Healthy muffins or bars (see party finger food ideas or sweet things)

For drinks:

• Fizzy drinks - add sparkling mineral water to pure fruit juice (half and half). Otherwise use ordinary water. Always dilute fruit juice.
• Smoothies – use low fat varieties of yoghurt, milk, or soy milk. Add protein powder, banana, kiwi, melon, berries, mango
• Try fruit or mint teas, cooled, add ice

For lunches:

• Use wholegrain bread, rolls and pitta. Try ciabatta, mini baguettes, and raisin bread for variety
• Use non-hydrogenated table spread or low fat cream cheese instead of butter or mayonnaise
• Fillings – low fat cheese, grated carrot, baby green leaves, lettuce, hummus
• Fruit – use a variety of easy to eat fruits
• Chopped carrot, celery, cherry tomatoes
• Pasta or rice salads
• Rice balls, falafel
• Healthy muffins or bars (see party finger food ideas or sweet things)


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