Top Tips
- Parent’s Tips
- Boost your family’s fruit and vegetable intake by being a good role model and serving and eating a variety of fruits and vegetables in various colours.
- Blueberries, strawberries and other berries are rich in antioxidants and aid little bodies in fighting bacteria that cause infections. During winter, buy frozen berries, defrost and serve on cereal or mixed through warm, low fat custard.
- Let your children choose the fruit they would like to eat when you go shopping.
- Invest in an ice lolly mould and create refreshing treats for those hot summer days using
fresh fruit juice or 100% pure unsweetened fruit juice.
- Peel, pre-cut and cling-wrap fruit into manageable pieces for lunchboxes.
- Play with shapes and sizes – chop thin slices, big fat chunks, zooty curls and zany shapes.
- Cut up an apple or place a bowl of dried fruit near where your child is playing for an energy and nutrient dense snack rather than biscuits and other high fat snack foods.
- Fruit kebabs are fun - use a variety of colourful fruit such as melon, strawberries, pineapple and kiwi fruit.
- Children tend to enjoy raw vegetables, such as carrots or cucumber, particularly when supplied with a favourite dip, such as hummus or guacamole.
- Disguise vegetables in food – add pureed carrots to tomato-based pasta sauces and finely chop a variety of vegetables and hide them in home-baked pizzas, soups, mince dishes and even their favourite casseroles.
- Use fruit as a garnish for your dinner dishes and add chopped up fruit to jelly for a healthier dessert.
- At mealtimes, draw a picture out of fruit and vegetables for the younger children - use broccoli for trees, carrots and celery for flowers, cauliflower for clouds and a yellow squash for the sun.
