Nutrition Tips and Tricks

Need new ideas for helping your preschooler eat fruits and veggies? Do they seem hungry at every moment of the day except meal times? Here you can discover ways to help your preschooler try new foods, have pleasant mealtimes, and reinforce their natural curiosity about food. Also, find out what has worked for other families and submit success stories of your own.

Featured Preschool Nutrition Tips and Tricks

Ten Resolutions for Healthier Preschooler Eating
Start the new year with healthy eating resolutions for your preschooler. Find simple tips for healthy food replacements and everyday goals to help your preschooler learn to enjoy a healthy diet.

Tips for Buying Processed Foods
Preschoolers fall for the packaging, taste and fun of processed foods. But making healthy choices among the thousands of processed foods can be intimidating. To help, choose foods close to the natural form and take these tips about ingredient lists and health claims on your next trip to the grocery store!

Healthy Preschooler Weight - Preventing Obesity
Reduce the chances that your preschooler will become overweight or obese by adopting healthy lifestyle habits. These food and activity recommendations are based on a just-released report from an expert panel on childhood obesity.

Featured Nutrition Product

Beginner Dinner Games
Conversation during mealtimes is one way to help preschoolers sit still and focus on something other than what they don't want to eat. With Beginner Dinner Games, by Family Time Fun, you'll never run out of topics that appeal to a preschooler's curiosity and silly side. Pick a card and start the family dinner fun! Read the full review of Beginner Dinner Games.

More Preschool Nutrition Tips and Tricks

Tips to Avoid Artificial Food Colors

Choosing a Breakfast Cereal for Your Preschooler

Tips for Parents of Picky Eating Preschoolers

Healthy Combinations - Add Fruit!

Fiber Foods for Your Preschooler

Tips for Adding Whole Grains to Your Preschooler's Diet

Preschoolers, Eat Your Vegetables! - Simple Ideas and Recipes

Top Tips for Healthy Eating

Featured Guest Writer - Chef Ann Cooper

Tips for Healthy Eating
"Don't be a short order cook" is just one piece of advice from Chef Ann Cooper, author of Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children. Chef Ann offers twelve tips for parents who want their children to appreciate good food and develop healthy eating habits for life.

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Preschool Alphabet Soup Craft
Mmmm! Alphabet soup! This preschool construction paper craft uses letters of the alphabet to create imaginary alphabet soup on a real paper stovetop. Get cookin’ with your preschooler as s/he searches newspaper and magazine ads for letters of the alphabet – the main ingredient in this educational preschool craft.

The Importance of Crafting With Your Preschooler
Creating preschool holiday crafts together benefits preschoolers in many ways, including building memories, creating pride, and promoting quality time.

Apple for Teacher Preschool Gift Crafts
Teachers love to receive gifts, and your child’s preschool teacher will adore these faux apple gift ideas. Crafted by your preschooler, the Apple for Teacher Preschool Gift Crafts are fun and simple and will delight your child’s teacher on the first day of preschool or kindergarten.