Top five Nutrient-Rich Foods for Your Kid and Fun Ways to Make Them Interesting!

The primary goal of any parent is to ensure that their child is well-fed and well-nourished. However, with changing lifestyles and eating patterns among adults and children, it’s becoming more difficult to reach the daily required nutrient goal.

Planning a nutrient-rich meal for your child is your first step towards securing a disease-free and healthy future for them. The importance of healthy eating must be taught to kids as early as six months old to make it a habit.

Let's face it: While healthy eating is super important for kids' growth, getting them to eat those healthy food items can be a real challenge.

Super Food for Your Super Kids

What if we introduce you to the Top five Nutrient-rich food items and how you can make them interesting for your kids? Yes, you heard it right, keep reading to feed your kids healthy without compromising on their taste buds:

1. Nuts and Seeds
   Nuts and Seeds can work as a powerhouse of energy for your kid’s day-to-day activities. These are considered superfoods that provide essential nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids, protein, fiber, etc. Seeds like pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and melon seeds are the most unfiltered way to get unsaturated good fats in the body. Nuts like almonds and walnuts can be the best vegetarian alternatives for the much-needed Omega-3.

   How to Make it Fun?
   Roast these seeds and nuts, mix date pulp with some oats and honey, mix it all, spread it on a parchment paper, and cut them into energy bars. Your very own seed and nut super bar is ready!

2. Yogurt
   Full of probiotics and good bacteria, Yogurt can do wonders for your child’s gut health, and as we all know “It all starts from the gut”. Yogurt is a nutrient-rich food item that can add value to the meal of your child with nutrients such as calcium, protein, and other vitamins such as B6 and B12.

   How to Make it Fun?
   Add a dash of cinnamon, freshly chopped fruits, and nuts to your bowl of yogurt. Finally, garnish with a drizzle of chocolate syrup. A healthy alternative for evening snacks is ready to be served!!

3. Vegetables
   Yes, our grandparents were right when they asked to eat the greens in each diet. Green vegetables such as spinach, kale, lettuce, broccoli, etc. are packed with super-nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, iron, fiber, etc. that can promote a child’s overall growth and development. To your surprise, many of these leafy super-heroes contain cancer-protective properties.

   How to Make it Fun?
   Vegetables aren't always boring. Get different varieties of colors in your vegetables such as carrot, broccoli, spinach, beetroot, lettuce, etc. You can get different cookie cutter shapes to cut vegetables into exciting shapes. Now prepare a multigrain pizza, place our vegetables on top, and season it with an herb mix. To add more fun to it, you can always choose some animal or cartoon character cutlery.

4. Berries
   Consumption of fruits has been claimed as one of the best ways to introduce antioxidants to an individual’s body, and it’s even better if the fruit is a berry. Even children hold a special place in their liking for berries, some like them because of their eye-pleasing colors, and some for their sweet and sour taste. Berries contain healthy compounds such as Vitamin C, Antioxidant, anthocyanins, etc. which promote the immune system and digestion.

   How to Make it Fun?
   It’s quite easy to add fun with berries. Put your frozen or fresh berries into the blender. Add some nuts and seeds, cocoa powder, and honey and blend it until the right consistency. Pour it into a glass, add some chia seeds, and desiccated coconut on top, and your healthy smoothie is ready!!

5. Supplement Drinks
   Most of the time, kids avoid these healthy but bland food items as they don’t match the palatability they prefer. However, there are health drinks in the market that claim to be healthy and tasty too - Yes, we are talking about “ChilRun®”. A tasty yet healthy drink that is dedicated to providing a nutrition-rich drink option without compromising on their taste buds. This delicious drink comes in 4 exciting variants: Vanilla, Chocolate, Kesar Badam, and Mango. Get your ChilRun® Pack now

   How to Make It Fun?
   Get a Millet Pancake Pre-Mix, add 2 scoops of ChilRun® (chocolate or mango flavor), and add a pinch of baking soda. Now mix all the ingredients and heat a pan. Put some butter and pour your prepared batter on it. Now flip and cook from both sides until golden brown. For the final touch-up, add some freshly chopped fruits, drizzle some honey or chocolate syrup and your healthy and tasty pancake is ready (with a flavorful twist)!