Being healthy, and making good health food choices for young children can be difficult. Once upon a time, I was given the esteemed honor of creating a variety of meal plans for young children. One of the obstacles that I faced was many of my teachers were not very comfortable with some of the food choices presented. I very quickly learned, when teachers support the concept, the transition would be quite smooth. After a few adjustments, we were offering such healthy and tas...ty home cooked meals, everyone was eventually on board (the children, parents, staff, and the organization)
For children that must have specialty diets, it is always a task to make sure that the lunches contained the components required by state and federal guidelines each day at drop off time. The components that must be present with lunch meals, for example need to ensure that the proper grains, fruits/veggies, milk, etc. are contained therein. We've seen cases where children's lunch box meals did not meet the requirements. Throughout my years of directing ECE programs, I found that nutrition matters. When young children are eating healthy food items, they seemed to make better choices, were more physically active outside, and were less sick. Families and program directors (to include other staff as well as overhead management as well), must collaborate in order to offer healthy and tasty food choices. Professional environments need to maintain a high standard in order to promote positively healthy children as well as serve as a safe haven for families that may struggle with proper nutrition. I enjoyed the article presented here. Take a peek!
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