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Its your choice

• Healthy foods for you your kids
• Session 2 Fruits and Vegetables

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Project Sponsors

• USDA project funded through the Food Stamp
  Program
• School District of Philadelphia
• Nutrition Center, Department of Bioscience
  Biotechnology at Drexel University.

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What are your favorite vegetables
Spinach Collards
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Vegetables

• Taste good
• Easy to cook
• Can keep you your kids from getting sick
• Reduces birth defects when pregnant

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Delicious vegetables

• Broccoli with cheese sauce

• Collards with smoked turkey

• Boiled cabbage

• Candied sweet potatoes

• Corn on the cob

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Getting your kids to eat vegetables

• For finger foods Cook baby carrots until soft
• Add onions peppers to scrambled eggs
• Add frozen vegetables to soups

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Whats best fresh or frozen or canned
vegetables?

• Fresh vegetables are best if they are in season
  (summer fall)
• Frozen vegetables have good nutrition easy to
  cook
• Canned vegetables are fine, but they are high in
  sodium (drain and rinse)

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Have you ever tried
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Why eat fruit?

• It tastes great!
• Keeps your skin soft and healthy
• Helps fight off sickness and disease

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Fruit is a good snack for your kids
You can feel good about giving your kids a
healthy snack
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Fruit comes in many forms

• Fresh or frozen

• Juice, 100

• Dried

• Canned

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You cant expect your child to eat a variety of
foods if you dont!
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Question

• How many servings of fruits and vegetables do we
  need every day?

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Answer

• 5 servings or more
• 2 fruits and 3 vegetables
• Breakfast Lunch Dinner
• Orange juice Sandwich Chicken
• Cereal Chips Mashed potatoes
• Milk 100 juice Broccoli
• Afternoon Snack Evening Snack
• Banana Carrot sticks with
• a dip

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VideoFeeding Your Baby
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Feeding Baby Puzzles
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Feeding Baby Puzzles
4-6
6-7
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0-12
Breast milk Iron fortified formula
Baby cereal from spoon
1st strained vegetables then fruits
Minced meat Egg yolk Dry toast
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Feeding Baby Puzzles
12-15
10-12
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Finger foods Toast squares Cheerios Sippy cup
Feeds self chopped table food Plain yogurt
Whole milk Weaned from bottles Whole egg