Encourage Healthy Snacking
Snacking helps to provide the calories and nutrients that kids and teens need to grow and develop. Most kids need one or two snacks each day, and very active children may need more.
Many prepared snack foods are high in calories, sugar, fat or salt (sodium). For example, pop is often referred to as “liquid candy,” because one 355-millilitre can contains as much as 50 millilitres of sugar and few other nutrients.
Limit your kids’ consumption of:
pop
sweetened drinks (e.g., iced tea, fruit drinks, lemonade)
sport drinks
cookies
potato chips
nachos
candy
Instead, provide easy-to-access to healthy snack foods. Try these ideas:
Keep a bowl of fruit on the kitchen counter.
Stock your fridge with cut-up raw vegetables and fruits, yogurt, cheese and milk.
Place whole grain crackers and cereals within easy reach, so children can create their own healthy snacks.
It’s important to be aware of your school-aged children’s special nutritional needs and to help them choose food from Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide that will promote normal growth and development.
Snacking helps to provide the calories and nutrients that kids and teens need to grow and develop. Most kids need one or two snacks each day, and very active children may need more.
Many prepared snack foods are high in calories, sugar, fat or salt (sodium). For example, pop is often referred to as “liquid candy,” because one 355-millilitre can contains as much as 50 millilitres of sugar and few other nutrients.
Limit your kids’ consumption of:
pop
sweetened drinks (e.g., iced tea, fruit drinks, lemonade)
sport drinks
cookies
potato chips
nachos
candy
Instead, provide easy-to-access to healthy snack foods. Try these ideas:
Keep a bowl of fruit on the kitchen counter.
Stock your fridge with cut-up raw vegetables and fruits, yogurt, cheese and milk.
Place whole grain crackers and cereals within easy reach, so children can create their own healthy snacks.
It’s important to be aware of your school-aged children’s special nutritional needs and to help them choose food from Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide that will promote normal growth and development.
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