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Hayden’s Super Sneaky Tips

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

The top twelve SUPERFOODS are:

  1. Wild Salmon
  2. Blueberries
  3. Spinach
  4. Nuts
  5. Eggs
  6. Tofu
  7. Yogurt
  8. Avocados
  9. Oatmeal
  10. Flaxseeds
  11. Beans
  12. Tomatoes

 And here are the SUPER TIPS Blueberries·         put a handful of blueberries on or in pancakes.         ·         Add blueberries to smoothies.·         Mix blueberries with cereal, oatmeal or plain yogurt. Kids love that it makes their food blue!·         Make blueberry muffins·         Add blueberries to green salads·         Make blueberry skewers·         Combine Blueberries with other fruits in a fruit salad Spinach

  1.  
    • Play feed the bunny
    • Eat leaves like a giraffe.
    • Start early.
    • Dice raw leafy greens and sprinkle into spaghetti sauce.
    • Blend some organic spinach or chard into a fruit and yogurt smoothie.

 Nuts

  1.  
    • Make your own trail mix
    • Ground them into butter try cashew butter, almond butter on your toast or as a dip for apples or celery.
    • Keep them in a bowl in the kitchen or in their play area.

 Eggs               

  1.  
    • Serve them up in a variety of styles.
    • Scramble them in fried rice.
    • Try them sunny side up or hard boiled on toast.

 Tofu–               ·         Puree tofu add it to spaghetti sauce.·         Cut it up into cubes and serve with toothpicks. Yogurt·         Add to fruit smoothies·         Put a dollop on warm oatmeal or eat it with cold cereal in place of milk·         Mix yogurt with fruit and put in the freezer. Take it out when it is partially frozen and stir and you have a gelato-like frozen dessert.·         Put in it in an ice cube tray with fruit in it and a popsicle stick make your own frozen popsicles.
 Avocados·         Mash it up and introduce it to baby as one of your infant’s first foods.·         Use it in a dip or spread for toddlers and young children·         Spice it up for older kids in guacamole. Oatmeal·         Used Steel cut! Avoid instant Oatmeal.·         Cook Oatmeal in a crock pot. Cook it overnight and serve hot fresh warm oatmeal to your family in the morning.  Sprinkle Cinnamon and add a couple of tablespoons of thawed frozen blueberries and a dollop of plain yogurt. Flaxseeds (ground)

  • 1 tablespoon a day for young children. 2 tablespoons a day for older children and adults.

Use as a SUPER SPRINKLE in cereal, pasta sauces, salad, muffin mix, smoothies.Tomatoes

  • serve in sauces. Purees, salsa or juice.

 Hayden: Here are moreSUPER SNEAKY TIPS:

  1. Sprinkle Cinnamon on everything you can. Applesauce, cereal, yogurt
  2. Replace flour with whole wheat pastry flour. If the family notices try half and half until they get used to it.
  3. Flaxseed oil put in our salad dressing, oatmeal or smoothies.
  4. Use whole grain pasta.
  5. For more protein for a picky eater, add protein powder to hot or cold cereal, smoothies.
  6. Children under four grind up choke-able foods such as nuts and sees in a coffee grinder and add to oatmeal, smoothies or salads,
  7.  Use fruits, juice, a little honey or Xylitol as a sweetener.
  8. Add diced veggies to kid favorites like Mac and cheese.
  9. Make your own pretty pizzas with lots of veggies.
  10. Use healthy dips to entice raw vegetable eating.  Hummus, guacamole, yogurt, peanut butter, bean dip salsa or olive oil.
  11. Dilute fruit juice with water. Add a splash of veggie juice in fruit juice. Carrot and apple go great together. If they still use a sippy cup, used a colored cup and then add in some spinach juice to their fruit juice.

Eat Me Not Pocket Guide

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

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