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    Nutrition: To Support Healthy Eating Habits at Home Try Some of The Following Strategies

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    Early childhood is when lifelong habits with food are developed. Through meals, snacks, and cooking activities, preschoolers become aware of different foods, tastes, and textures. They start to develop preferences and make choices based on familiarity and sensory feelings. Nutrition education at this stage fosters an understanding of food groups and eating behaviors that can continue throughout life. To support healthy eating, strategies include having balanced family meals, involving children in food preparation, limiting sugary and processed foods, and making small swaps to healthier options.

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    Early childhood is when lifelong habits with food are developed. Through meals, snacks, and cooking activities, preschoolers become aware of different foods, tastes, and textures. They start to develop preferences and make choices based on familiarity and sensory feelings. Nutrition education at this stage fosters an understanding of food groups and eating behaviors that can continue throughout life. To support healthy eating, strategies include having balanced family meals, involving children in food preparation, limiting sugary and processed foods, and making small swaps to healthier options.

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    Early childhood is when lifelong habits with food are developed. Through meals, snacks, and cooking activities, preschoolers become aware of different foods, tastes, and textures. They start to develop preferences and make choices based on familiarity and sensory feelings. Nutrition education at this stage fosters an understanding of food groups and eating behaviors that can continue throughout life. To support healthy eating, strategies include having balanced family meals, involving children in food preparation, limiting sugary and processed foods, and making small swaps to healthier options.

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    Nutrition: To Support Healthy Eating Habits at Home Try Some of The Following Strategies

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    Early childhood is when lifelong habits with food are developed. Through meals, snacks, and cooking activities, preschoolers become aware of different foods, tastes, and textures. They start to develop preferences and make choices based on familiarity and sensory feelings. Nutrition education at this stage fosters an understanding of food groups and eating behaviors that can continue throughout life. To support healthy eating, strategies include having balanced family meals, involving children in food preparation, limiting sugary and processed foods, and making small swaps to healthier options.

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    Nutrition

    Lifelong habits with food are developed during early childhood. Through food and cooking activities, children develop skills in
    math, science, language and literacy, social science, self-care, and social skills. Nutrition education for preschoolers foster
    children's awareness of different types of foods and promotes exploration and inquiry of food choices. Children experience
    foods every day through meals, snacks, and cooking activities. Through these experiences, children become aware of
    different foods and tastes, some of which are familiar and others that are new. As children explore various foods and participate in food preparation
    they develop likes and dislikes and begin to make choices based on preference. Nutrition choices, self-regulation of eating (eating when hungry),
    chewing food thoroughly, eating slowly and stopping when full all involve decision-making skills. For preschoolers food selection and preference is
    primarily based on familiarity, taste and the sensory feelings associated with certain foods. As children gain an understanding of different foods, they
    can start to categorize foods in other ways, such as by food groups (bread, fruit, vegetables, meat) and will begin to develop eating behaviors that
    they will carry with them throughout life.
    To support healthy eating habits at home try some of the following strategies:

     Start every morning with a balanced breakfast


     Sit down at the table as a family during meal time
     Model healthy choices; children eat the way parents/caregivers eat
     Invite children to help shop for groceries and choose foods to eat. Include them when making meals; children are more likely to try food that they
    have helped prepare.
     Plant a garden and grow some of their favorite fruits, vegetables and herbs
     Make small swaps for healthier foods. Swap whole milk for low fat, soda for water, white bread for wheat, butter for olive oil, etc.
     Limit sugary foods
     Be smart about the types of fats in your diet. Choose foods with healthy unsaturated fats
     Limit processed, prepackaged and fried foods
     Keep fresh fruit on hand
     Set snack boundaries
     Avoid using food as a reward
     Limit screen time
    “Excerpt taken from California Department of Education, Preschool Learning Foundations”

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