For a variety of reasons, most adults as well as children aren’t eating the right amount of fruits and veggies regularly. But if you’d like your family to become healthier, you need to try and make them eat  fruits and veggies regularly. This may require some sneaky, creative techniques, though.   And that’s what we’re going to be looking at  in this post.

Breakfast time will be the first chance you will have to get your family to begin eating fruits and veggies. Reducing the traditional amount of food that you would usually serve at breakfast and including a smoothie will be one way to start sneaking in fruits and veggies. You can begin by throwing in a bunch of fruits right into a blender, add some milk and a scoop of frozen yogurt, and you have a great tasting as well as nutritious smoothie. You may possibly even find that your children request one of these each morning when they have had the chance of trying them.

Snack time is usually a time when your family members will wind up reaching for bad snacks. And it’s also a great opportunity to provide your family with a healthy snack comprised of fruits and veggies . Instead of leaving bags of potato chips hanging around the house you can replace them with different bags of different kinds of dried fruits. You can even get your children to help you make dried fruits with the aid of a dehydrating machine. This can even make them more interested in eating these foods. You should also realize that you can take these different dehydrated fruits and put them into their lunches in order to provide them with fruit each day.

Fruits and veggies are packed with vitamins and minerals and one method to ensure your family is obtaining the right amount of  fruits and veggies they require is by putting out a salad bar at dinner time. By letting your family members to choose the vegetables they’d like to put on their salad, you’re going to know what they like to eat. Also, your salad bar doesn’t have to contain only vegetables since there are a number of different kinds of fruits that you can add to your salad bar. With regards to the greens you may want to think about getting rid of the iceberg lettuce and adding other greens including romaine lettuce or spinach.

You may also want to think about getting rid of any soda or other sort of sugary beverage and replace them with vegetable and fruit drinks. Something that has grown very popular right now as an alternative to sugary beverages are vegetable juices that are disguised as fruit juice.  These sorts of juices are incredibly delicious that. Chances are, your children will prefer drinking these instead of just plain vegetable juice.

There you have it, just three creative ways to sneak in fruits and veggies in your family’s regular diet. This will surely help them reap all the health benefits that fruits and vegetables have to offer.