Healthify your supermarket choices.
Back to School – We Eat Food That’s Fresh
Here’s a children’s book we’ll be stocking on our shelf soon – We Eat Food That’s Fresh. Check out the video intro:
From the publisher:
A whimsical chef encourages children to try new foods. He stirs up their interest in fruits and vegetables in the garden, kitchen and while on an outing to the beach. It comes with a musical CD that will delight children with easy rhymes and repetitive verses. I’m sure this fun and persuasive chef will have kids tasting new fruits & veggies in no time!
More info:
Author: Angela Russ-Ayon
Illustrator: Cathy June
Our Rainbow Press
ages 4-8
What you need to know:
With so many branding messages by junk food manufacturers and co-marketing of toys at fast food places, it’s hard to find positive healthy eating messages for young children. Hopefully a book like this can help both parents and children make better decisions about what food to buy, and encourage families to spend more time together preparing meals.
What to do at the supermarket:
If you are grocery shopping with your children, here are some tips:
1. Setting ground rules in advance always helps. For example, one or two snacks, no more.
2. Choose a new and special fruit we’ve never had before.
3. Help in choosing individual pieces of produce – how to choose.
4. Have the kids “hunt” for items that are ingredients of a recipe for later preparation at home.
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We need a book/DVD that teaches kids about the lies in commercials; A kid is still a kid – she will see a commercial for a Junk food and want it. We need to teach our kids that McDonalds=fastfood=junkfood and that its bad for you, makes you fat and ill.
I would very much like to see a book with two characters – one fat and ugly that eats junk food in fast food joints, snack all day and drinks coke. the other, a healthy smiling character, that eats vegetables, fruit, home cooked meals, and also snacks. He might even eat a hamburger at Wendy’s every so often, too – but moderately.