I am excited to share this fun way to encourage healthy eating in your kids today! Orlena Kerek shares her secrets with us in this post AND a free workshop she is offering. Orlena is a mother of 4 small scamps. She writes about helping children to eat healthily, without lots of stress and worry. It’s all about building healthy habits that last a lifetime. I’m excited to share her program with you today, since getting little ones to eat healthy is always a challenge! This post contains affiliate links to her course.
FREE HEALTHY EATING FOR CHILDREN WORKSHOP
I don’t know about you, but when it comes to feeding my children a healthy diet, they can be rather frustrating. Trying even! I try to feed them lots of healthy vegetables. They want pasta. Apples for snack. They want biscuits. Try something new? Are you joking? There are screams of ‘yuck’ and howls of disgust. It’s not worth the effort. And time? How am I supposed to feed them something healthy? Am I supposed to cook? AND get them to football practise, sining class, the swimming pool. It’s a crazy life!
That’s how my life used to be. Picky eaters, a bad diet, introducing food was a disaster and ALL I thought about was how to get them to eat healthy food. Obsession was the word my husband used.
Things are different now. I’m not going to lie to you and tell you my children have great table manners and that dinners are a sedate, civilised affair. I have 4 children aged 6 and under. Two year old twins. Their manners are quite frankly a disaster. No going for dinner with the Queen for us!
BUT, I don’t worry any more. I know my kids eat healthily. They eat vegetables. They try new foods. They eat more than just pasta. There are no more howls of yuck and screams of despair. No more fighting over whether or not they get pudding. No more coercing. No more “just one more bite”. And yes, I think about what I’m going to feed them, normally about 5 minutes before I actually cook it. They get healthy, home cooked food every single day. I don’t do junk any more. I spend about 30 minutes every day cooking. I cook easy, healthy tasty food that my children eat, generally without complaint.
How did I do it? How did I transform our lives?
There’s no secret, just a few simple rules. Rules for us, not the kids!
- NO pressure. If my children don’t want to eat something they don’t have to.
- I offer them healthy food through out the day. If they want it, they eat it. If not, they wait until the next healthy food opportunity.
- Desert is not tied up with how much dinner they ate. We have desert on Friday andSaturday. It doesn’t matter how much they eat.
- I offer variety. Lots of different healthy vegetables. They just don’t eat the ones that they don’t like.
- I KEEP offering variety and new things. It takes time to accept something new and kids don’t like new. They like familiar.
That’s it in short. I have HEAPS more I could tell you. Why not come and join me at the next free workshop?
FREE Healthy Eating for Children Workshop
If you’d like to know more about how you can feed your children a healthy diet without stress, here’s how I can help. Firstly, I have an awesome FREE workshop that you can attend. We’ll look at how you can help your children. It’s totally free, you can come, you can learn and that’s it (there’s a recording if you can’t make the live session.)
Healthy Eating for Children Course
I also do an awesome online course, which is not free. But it is great. It’s $350 which does sound a lot if you compare it to a book. But if you think of giving your children the gift of a healthy life…remember that nothing in life is guaranteed, but there are things that you can do to increase your chances and healthy eating and exercise are up there at the top. If you could give that gift to your children, it’s a small price to pay. Think of it as the road map to stress free healthy eating. If you want to know more about the course…check out this page. Just want to come along to the free session? It would be great to see you. Just register here.
Angela says
Very nice tips Paula! I like that you don’t use dessert as a reward. I think it helps keep kids from feeling like they deserve a treat. I see so many parents making the kids sit at the table until they eat. We fell into that a time or two ourselves. It certainly doesn’t foster family closeness at the dinner table. So we gave that idea up. I’m still working on my vegetable presentation. I think my problem is cooking mainly one dish meals instead of a main dish and several side dishes. I signed up for the free class. Maybe that will give me some ideas.
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