Saturday 2 July 2011

Children and Home Made Food

A problem being faced by lot of mothers is feeding the children. It becomes quite difficult to so many mother in feeding the children everyday. Children insist on not to eat and mothers take lot of pains to give some food to the kids. Often kids like cookies, chips, ice cream and other tasty food. Most of these are called junk food.

Junk food did not give strength to the body and weakens the appetite of the children. If they are denied such type of food, they create raucous and did not leave until the parents provide such food. This is a common scene in every house where there are children in the age group of two to ten years.

Children always prefer outside food than the one cooked at home. They insist going to a bakery or to a restaurant. Kids insist on spicy, chill and sweet food. Though such food is given, it will not give any result. But most of the times parents become helpless.

Usually children have to be given diet according to their age. They shall be provided with carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and proteins. The food being cooked at home consists off all these but the children did not like them. Most of the junk food contains only carbohydrates and that causes obesity.

So mothers shall try their best to give home food to the children so that they can get wholesome food everyday. But how to make it happen is the big question.

Usually mothers insist children to eat what they have cooked and did not take in to consideration the likes of children. This is one major cause for children's aversion to the home made food.

Under such circumstances it is better to prepare the food at home which is spicy as well contains all the nutrients a child needs. Mothers shall observe what type of spice children are preferring and it is advisable to add those in the regular food.

Coercion is not a tool to make children to take home made food. If the parents insists the children to eat whatever is cooked at home, children develop aversion and stop taking food. Instead parents shall make the children to agree to eat the food prepared at home.

Children did not understand what is good and what is bad food. They did not distinguish between good and bad food. They only like what appeases them. So it is a waste to enlighten children on the good and bad food and there is no use in convincing the children.

Kids like garnished and flavoured food. So mothers shall take some time to prepare food and shall give a good shape so that children are being attracted to them. Garnishing, adding flavours and colors will help the mother to make the food attractive.

At the same time, mothers shall note that children did not like routine and they like some change from time to time. So mothers shall change the food items and prepare various types of foods that could attract the children.

This may look like a strenuous job for mothers and in particular to those who go for jobs. But they have to take some time and shall do some exercise in learning new types of food items. This will cause some burden but in the interest of the children it is a must.

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