Co-ops to Kids: For Parents

The Five A Day campaign has morphed into the “Fruits and Veggies-More Matters” campaign- bigger and better ideas for adding those important fruits and veggies into your family’s meals and snacks. Check out these resource-filled websites for recipe and other ideas for improving the diet of the whole family. http://www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org and http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/

Healthful Snacks for Growing Kids – at home or school snack ideas

Mini Brand Name Snack Guide

Recipes for Your Growing Child/Cooking Classes for Kids – Recipe booklet provided by the Brattleboro Food Co-op, Brattleboro, VT. Phone (802) 254-3267

Better Eating for Life – An easy step-by-small-step guide to your best nutritional health ever. Improving your family’s diet with whole foods by registered dietitian Mary Saucier Choate. Book available at the Co-op Food stores in Hanover and Lebanon, NH.

Nutrition & Your Child – online newsletter from the Children’s Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) at Baylor College of Medicine. Reliable information on the role of maternal, infant, and child nutrition in optimal health, development, and growth.

Ellyn Satter, online help with feeding issues, as well as valuable books for further information. Internationally recognized child feeding expert Ellyn Satter emphasizes competency rather than deficiency, providing rather than depriving, and trust rather than control. Because of their effectiveness, Satter’s guidelines have been adopted successfully by parents who want to learn to eat healthier, families where weight or “picky eating” is an issue, and by organizations such as WIC.

USDA My Pyramid Food Guidance System: The new My Pyramid incorporates recommendations from the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The Dietary Guidelines provide reliable food and nutrition advice for people two years of age and older to promote health and reduce the risk of major chronic diseases.

Helpful Books:

On nutrition and child feeding guidance

by Ellyn Satter:

  • How to Get Your Kid to Eat but Not Too Much
  • Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family
  • Child of Mine: Feeding With Love and Good Sense
  • Your Child’s Weight: Helping without Harming

Children’s cookbooks

by Molly Katzen:

  • Honest Pretzels
  • Pretend Soup and Other Recipes
  • Salad People and More Real Recipes – A New Cookbook for
  • Preschoolers & Up

by Alice L. Waters:

  • Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child’s Restaurant Adventures, with 46 Recipes

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