6/5/2023 0 Comments Kid snippets health food![]() ![]() ![]() Find a level that you and your family can live with. We decided that Elsa can eat fish when she stays with other families or in day care, even though we don’t eat it at home. Otherwise you won’t be invited to any more dinners )ĭon’t change your and your child’s eating habits to the impossible. If you don’t agree, every dinner will be an issue. Next step is to talk with your families and to help them out with food suggestions. Talk everything through with your partner so you both agree on why you do this. If you have younger children you might want to read this post that we did a year ago. These tips are generally for 1 year old children and older. Our 10 tips how to give your children a healthy start in life Give supplements suited for small children (read more here). Why give your child something that you would’t eat yourself? They get plenty of proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals from vegetables, eggs, oils, fruit, beans, lentils, seeds and nuts. If you are a vegetarian, raise your children to be the same until they are old enough to express their own opinion. Which makes life a whole lot easier for yourself. The longer you prolong the introduction of sugar, the more open your children will be towards trying new foods and eating their greens. Once you start offering sweets, it will be harder to get children to try things that are not sweet. It causes hyper activity, lower the immune system and can lead to dental caries, to mention a few. Sugar tastes good but has lots of downsides. Even if they are not allergic or intolerant, many people can react to these food irritants. Try to reduce or eliminate gluten and dairy products during your baby’s first years. They can be hard to digest for anybody, but especially for young children. Believe what you want, that’s what we do. There are facts supporting our opinions and probably facts who don’t. We won’t quote any doctors or scientists. These things have worked for us and Elsa, hopefully they can help some of you as well. Since many of you have asked us for advices, we’ve put together some simple guidelines and tips on healthy children’s food. A part of this is probably just pure luck, but we believe that her diet has also played a role here. No ear infections, eczema, rashes, constipation, diarrhea, picky eating, irritated bowel, sleeping problems and hyper activity. She looks healthy and she has been blessed from almost all normal child ailments. And as long as we can offer her that instead of an ice cream, we will.Īnyone who has met Elsa will tell you that she is an admirable happy and calm kid. The truth is that she loves vegetables, beans and fruit. We want to give her a clean start in life, and so far she has never complained about it. Our intention has never been to be harsh or mean to her, we have just offered her better alternatives when the other kids got candy. If someone wants to give Elsa an ice cream, it’s not because she wants it, it’s because they want to give it to her. During a child’s first two years we as adults choose what food our children should eat. But why? Elsa has never asked for ice cream, she doesn’t even know how it tastes. And sure, they are right, she eats an ice cream and life goes on. You wouldn’t believe how many times we heard that sentence. ”One ice-cream every now and then won’t hurt her”. Many people seem to think that we are exaggerating about health. Around here that counts as something pretty spectacular, and not only in a good way. She has still never had any red meat or poultry and she has never eaten any sugar, candy, cookies or ice cream. Now 1 1/2 year has passed and we wanted to give you a recap on how things are going and how our theories are working for us, and most importantly, for Elsa.Įlsa is turning 20 months soon. We were rookie parents but had an idea and a theory about what food we wanted to introduce to Elsa during her first years. ![]() If you have followed us for a while you might remember our post about Elsa’s first meal. ![]()
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