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Healthy Choices: Fruits & Veggies for You & Your Kids

Explore delicious and nutritious ways to incorporate fruits and vegetables into your family's diet. Learn about the benefits, preparation tips, and serving recommendations for a healthier lifestyle. This session is brought to you by USDA project funding through the Food Stamp Program, in collaboration with the School District of Philadelphia and the Nutrition Center at Drexel University. Discover the goodness of spinach, collards, broccoli, and more, and make feeding your kids healthy foods a joy!

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Healthy Choices: Fruits & Veggies for You & Your Kids

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  1. It’s your choice Healthy foods for you & your kids Session 2: Fruits and Vegetables

  2. Project Sponsors • USDA project funded through the Food Stamp Program • School District of Philadelphia • Nutrition Center, Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology at Drexel University.

  3. What are your favorite vegetables Spinach & Collards

  4. Vegetables • Taste good • Easy to cook • Can keep you & your kids from getting sick • Reduces birth defects when pregnant

  5. Broccoli with cheese sauce Delicious vegetables • Collards with smoked turkey • Boiled cabbage • Candied sweet potatoes • Corn on the cob

  6. Getting your kids to eat vegetables • For finger foods – Cook baby carrots until soft • Add onions & peppers to scrambled eggs • Add frozen vegetables to soups

  7. What’s best – fresh or frozen or canned vegetables? • Fresh vegetables are best if they are in season (summer & fall) • Frozen vegetables have good nutrition & easy to cook • Canned vegetables are fine, but they are high in sodium (drain and rinse)

  8. Have you ever tried:

  9. Why eat fruit? • It tastes great! • Keeps your skin soft and healthy • Helps fight off sickness and disease

  10. Fruit is a good snack for your kids You can feel good about giving your kids a healthy snack

  11. 4 oz/day Fruit comes in many forms • Fresh or frozen • Juice, 100% • Dried • Canned

  12. You can’t expect your child to eat a variety of foods if you don’t!

  13. Question How many servings of fruits and vegetables do we need every day?

  14. Answer • 5 servings or more 2 fruits and 3 vegetables BreakfastLunchDinner Orange juice Sandwich Chicken Cereal Chips Mashed potatoes Milk 100% juiceBroccoli Afternoon SnackEvening Snack BananaCarrot sticks with a dip

  15. VideoFeeding Your Baby

  16. Feeding Baby Puzzles

  17. Feeding Baby Puzzles 4-6 6-7 7-8 0-12 Breast milk Iron fortified formula Baby cereal from spoon 1st strained vegetables then fruits Minced meat Egg yolk Dry toast

  18. Feeding Baby Puzzles 12-15 10-12 9-10 Finger foods Toast squares Cheerios Sippy cup Feeds self chopped table food Plain yogurt Whole milk Weaned from bottles Whole egg

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