Healthy Meal Ideas For Kids :

How many times have you created a healthy gourmet meal for you child - only to have them look at it like it's poison? Many health books and magazines have meal ideas for children - but sometimes they lack a reality check.

Here is a days healthy eating for a child - but with a twist. Thanks to Weight of the Evidence we can also see what the child actually ate.

Breakfast
Broccoli and cheese omelet
Yogurt with blueberries and strawberries.

What was actually eaten
"the yogurt and berries and about half the omelet, picking out all the broccoli to eat it; he also had some whole milk."

Lunch
Cheeseburger
Ketchup (no HFCS type)
Grapes
Spinach

What was actually eaten
"about 2/3 of the burger, all the spinach, most of the grapes; he also had some whole milk and cod liver oil."

Dinner
Chicken curry
Basmati rice
Green & yellow string beans with carrots
Kiwi and sliced tomato with ranch

What was actually eaten
"the chicken, kiwi, most of the string beans and carrots, whatever rice stuck to his chicken, tomatoes and ranch; he also had some whole milk."

Snacks
Sliced apple,
Cashews,
Raisins,
Whole wheat pita triangles,
Hummus

What was actually eaten
"apple with skin removed, cashews, three of the raisins, and he used the pita triangles as a means to scoop up the hummus, ate one bite from the pita and left the rest; he also had some juice heavily diluted with water."

"You give your kids what?"
I'm amazed that this child picked out his broccoli for the purposes of eating it. My children pick out their broccoli for the purposes of surreptitiously dropping it on the floor.

The child drunk whole milk - such a decision leads us to question our obsession with macro-nutrients rather than micro-nutrients.

This diet seems low in grains and starches. You may be interested to know that a thorough analysis of the food eaten showed that "his day provided every last vitamin, mineral, trace element, amino acid and fatty acid he needs."

PLEASE NOTE: This is not necessarily a recommendation. Compare also with a Pediatric recommended meal plan .

See the full article about childhood nutrition at Weight of the Evidence .

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