One of the hardest missions of parents is to provide their children with a healthy, quality meal, but to convince them to consume it. If in the first years of life, children can be protected from sweets, high-calorie juices and salty snacks, later in adolescence this becomes very complicated.
Therefore, healthy family meals should be included in the children’s program from an early age. And avoiding excess sugar and salt is a primary goal of parents.
It is already known that no child should receive sweets daily and not offered as a reward. This is because excess sugar turns into fat and over time, leads to weight gain. As for salt, it is generously found in sausages, preserves, pastries and chips, children’s favorite foods, whose negative impact on health is well known.
In the volume “ABC of nutrition”, doctor Mihaela Bilic offers many suggestions that are easy to put into practice by parents who want to feed their children healthy. Thus, a few tricks aim to replace sugar with vanilla, cinnamon, ginger and mint.
In the same way, salt could be dethroned in spice preparations such as pepper, nutmeg, cumin, dill, tarragon and thyme.
Once the sugar and salt in the food are reduced, many basic ingredients will be much better perceived by the taste buds, and over time, the whole family will get used to the taste of health on the plate.
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