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It’s 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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What’s 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%
4 oz/day
• Dried
• Canned
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You can’t expect your child to eat
a variety of foods
if you don’t!
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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
Orange juice
Cereal
Milk
Afternoon Snack
Banana
Lunch
Sandwich
Chips
100% juice
Dinner
Chicken
Mashed potatoes
Broccoli
Evening Snack
Carrot sticks with
a dip
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Video
Feeding Your Baby
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Feeding Baby Puzzles
0-12
4-6
6-7
7-8
9-10 10-12 12-15
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Feeding Baby Puzzles
0-12
Breast
milk
Iron
fortified
formula
4-6
Baby
cereal
from
spoon
6-7
7-8
1st strained
vegetables
then
fruits
Minced
meat
Egg yolk
Dry toast
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Feeding Baby Puzzles
9-10
10-12
12-15
Finger foods
Toast squares
Cheerios
Sippy cup
Feeds self
chopped table
food
Plain yogurt
Whole milk
Weaned from
bottles
Whole egg
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