Producer: Priyanka Das Editor: Sujata Singh

5 Tips to Keep Your Child Away from Junk Food

Prepare homemade food for your child

You can easily prevent children from eating junk food. You just have to cut down on all the outside junk food that is consumed by your child. You can prepare your child’s favourite food item at home.

 Do not forget to garnish the home-cooked food

Garnishing makes food items visually appealing. Children are also attracted to beautiful and colourful things. Therefore, at snack time, you can prepare things like fruit chaat for your child. You can also give healthy food items to your child by making them in different shapes and forms.

Prepare a healthy meal plan

Children often crave junk food. However, you should maintain a balance and fix days for junk food. Prepare a healthy meal plan and follow it diligently.

Serve small portions

Large portions tend to overwhelm children and instead of looking forward to enjoying food, children want to get away from it. Give real and practical portion sizes. Instead of giving 2 chappatis – start with 1.

Introduce different tastes and textures

Many mothers cook the same food fearing their child would refuse new foods. It’s quite crucial that children explore different tastes and textures. Make foods in different forms; add different ingredients for different tastes.