The game = changed.
By now your family should be settling into a groove with kid-led lunchbox-packing. You’re entering a pivotal time, when your child has gained enough confidence in her abilities that she doesn’t need as much oversight, but the idea of making all the decisions is still so exciting that she’s open to anything. Seize the opportunity, and you might set your child on the path to a lifetime of adventurous eating.
The idea is to begin a conversation, one that can continue indefinitely. Here are seven ways to do it:Before you hit the grocery store, spend a few minutes talking to your kids about what they’d like to have on hand for lunches. Let them make their own mini-lists, even—and take the kids to the store with you.
Encourage your kids to think about new ways to combine familiar foods, like a lunch of beef patties served as lettuce cups with shredded carrots and lime wedges—instead of the usual hamburger-and-bun combo.abound these days, from ambitious ones aimed at junior chefs to tie-ins featuring cartoon characters. True story: The last time my son willingly ate broccoli, it was during his obsession with Diego, Dora the Explorer’s cousin.
. I don’t think he’s touched broccoli since, but his cookbook shelf now holds a dozen or more books and he definitely finds inspiration there.There are few better ways to help children interact with food than to grow it yourself. This won’t show instant results, obviously, but harvesting cherry tomatoes from a pot on the windowsill often leads to snacking on them, which leads to packing them.
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