You may not know this,
but eating a healthy, nutritious diet has a lot to do with doing well in
school. When your teen is stuck in a rut of eating greasy fast food, they will
become lazy and that affects their studying and school work.
Do you need help getting
your teen to eat healthy? Here are four tips, so you don’t have to wrestle with
your teens eating habits anymore.
1. Don’t force the issue
Forcing your teen to eat healthy food, doesn’t tend to help very much. If you force the issue, it might backfire and your teenager may learn to use eating or not eating as a weapon, either to wind you up or as a bargaining tool. This can lead to very unhealthy attitudes to eating.
2. Find foods your teen likes
Instead of forcing the issue, serve up a wide variety of healthy foods to find out what your teen enjoys. Try changing it up a bit. Serve fruit that your teen likes and add it to oatmeal or granola, its healthy and it tastes good. You may pleasantly surprise them.
3. Disguise healthy foods
For teenagers who don’t like veggies, you can always try disguising them. Hide them in food that they enjoy like lasagna, they won’t even notice you’ve added grated carrots, tomatoes, mushroom and peppers. Veggies can be easily added to lots of different meals like cottage pie, wraps, soups and curries.
4. Opt for healthy substitutes
If all else fails and your teen still doesn’t want to eat healthy meals then offer your teenager nutritional substitutes. You can get a lot of nutrients from juice and vitamins, so the good stuff is still going into their bodies, it doesn’t really matter how.
Do you have trouble
getting your teenager to eat healthy? Use these helpful tips or tell us what
works with your teen.
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