What Should Kids Eat?

What Should Kids Eat?

          What should kids eat?  Everyone seems to have different ideas and opinions to this question.  All families have children with different dietary needs and challenges, so everyone should tweak their menus accordingly.  I believe families should focus on what they can eat if dietary restrictions apply and create awesome meals to share.  I want to teach my children to honor and respect their bodies by making wholesome real foods to nourish their bodies on a daily basis.  I pray families celebrate the blessing of food daily by creating meals and sharing them together around a kitchen table.

          I believe families can create an environment in their homes to promote healthy clean eating in their children.  When families go into the grocery store, it is easy to start picking up the processed food like substances of our times.  The human body can not process or recognize these chemicals, artificial ingredients and overload of sugars in these proceseds foods because these foods are not what God intended for us when he created the world.   These processed foods are man made science experiments to create a food that is addicting and makes you come back for more.  The more processed food you give your children the more they will crave and want.  There is no such thing as kid food or adult food.  There is just real whole foods meant for all human beings, whether a kid or an adult, to eat and use as energy to stay alive and live.

           If you start feeding your kids a whole foods diet, their taste buds will change.   They will start craving the sweet in an organic apple rather than a candy bar.  Fruit is truly God's candy and so yummy.  Parents need to stop enabling their children in developing poor eating habits.  It may be an adjustment but eventually if you keep putting the healthy whole foods on the table they will eat it.  My son took a bite of salad the other night after many years of saying I don't eat that.  He said it was delicious too. Sugar consumption is a major player in a lot of childhood disease, so protect your children by lowering their sugar consumption in your home.

         Children get offered so much junk food in the world, so make your home the place where the food is real, healthy and healing to positively impact their growth and development.  A healthy child is a happy child.You are planning the meals so you have the power to transform their diets to benefit their overall well being.  Don't get caught up in the standard american diet because it is the root of many diseases.  Remember to give your children occasional treats with healthy ingredients, so they feel satisfied and not deprived.
           Keep your children's diet fresh and exciting by trying new recipes.  This summer my family is going totally gluten free.  I have non-celiac gluten sensitivity and feel gluten is very hard to digest and gut irritating for all people. The human body just does not know how to digest it effectively.  I believe gluten can cause many ailments in the body and change children behavior.  I am excited to bring gluten free eating which is a new way of eating to my whole family to help them heal their bodies and feel their best. What healthy foods do you feed your children?  Have you tried any new recipes or eating plans lately?  Do you share a meal with your family daily?