Healthy Eating Challenge 2011 Week 2

This weeks challenge is working on adding fruit to every meal.  Basically it means your adding fruit to your breakfast (pretty easy), lunch (still pretty easy), and dinner (I admit it's harder to do here).  I like to take fresh fruit and cut into bite size pieces and drizzle with some fresh lemon or lime juice and sometimes a little honey and serve it salad style at all three meals.  This is a much healthier option then adding cream cheese or whipping cream to a fruit salad.  Fruit kebabs are a hit no matter what meal they are served with.  Hopefully we can find another fun way to eat fruit at meals over the upcoming week.  Thanks for playing along with the challenge.  Feel free to comment and add your thoughts and ideas.

Thoughts on Week One of the Healthy Eating Challenge 2011

My kids stuck with fruits and vegetables they knew and liked.  I couldn't convince them to try something new.  But the nice thing is anytime they were hungry and wanted a snack they just went and grabbed fresh produce instead of chips, cereal, and other snack type items.  Hopefully next trip to the store will convince them to give something new a try.  They went with celery, carrots, and red bell peppers in the vegetable department and watermelon, bananas, and apples in the fruit department.  Please share what choices your kids made in the produce department.

Healthy Eating Challenge 2011 Week 1

This week's challenge will be introducing new produce to the family. Either take your kids along with you to the store and let them pick one fruit and one vegetable to try or you pick out a few fruits (if they are new to you the better) and vegetables. I've learned it takes at minimum twenty tries before someone can fully decide they don't like something. The only requirement is that my kids must take a bite that I can tell they actually took a bite. Just make sure you follow your rule too or the kids won't keep at it. Who knows you may find some new produce that you really like. I'll post at the end of the week the produce our kids picked out and what are reactions were to them.

Heathly Eating Challenge 2011

Each week I'll be posting a challenge to try to get your family eating much healthier by the end of 2011. To start with I'll have easy challenges and we will start working up to harder ones. The end result hopefully will be a healthier family by the end of 2011. Feel free to suggest this blog and/or challenge to others. Hopefully we will all learn something from each other and through this challenge.