Healthy Eating
- Healthy meals include food selections from every major food group.
- Half of your plate should consist of fruits and veggies.
- For vegetables, alternate between dark green vegetables (such as broccoli and spinach), red/orange vegetables (think carrots), beans and peas, starchy vegetables (like corn and potatoes), and anything else in season.
- For fruit, balance the necessary dietary fiber with the “good-in-moderation” sugar content: avoid adding sugar to any fruit at meal-time, incorporate fruits frequently into the main meal (perhaps some bananas in your breakfast cereal and some mango with your chicken at dinner), and increase the accessibility of fruit in the kitchen so your family will be more likely to grab an apple instead of a bag of chips at snack time.