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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He eats cheese sticks, yougart, grapes, oranges, bananas,  Mac and cheese (I  make from scratch) steak, frozen fish sticks, broccoli and asparagus.

The junk food... He only eats lunchables for lunch, Pringles and a small chocolate bar. For breakfast he eats sugary cereal and eggs waffles or pancakes. He also eats ice cream everyday. I would like to substitute sugary cereal with something else but he will eat just those 3 items plus bagels.
The junk food is usually to snack on so I'm looking for other healthy snack suggestions besides chocolate and chips.

I see so many kids eating raw veggies and I feel awful that my kid is sitting with Oreos and a bag of chips. [/quote]

Honestly, to start with, he won't "only eat" if it's not available for eating.  Buy one of those bento boxes and make your own lunchables.  Organic, nitrate-free lunchmeat, fruit he likes, whole grain crackers or mini bagel or similar, organic cheese.  Send water or milk, no juice.  Once a week, let him have the treat of a mini chocolate bar or pringles, but not every day, and not if he's having ice cream every night.

Don't have sugary cereal in the house.  Either make waffles/pancakes from scratch using whole wheat flour or only buy the whole grain kinds in the frozen food aisle.

My daughter is three and I try to make most of her snacks be fresh foods, but I do let some processed foods in.  WHen I do, though, I try to make them somewhat healthy for the most part (other than  goldfish, which she and I both love but eat in moderation - one of those small bags will last for a month in our house).  Snack might be a handful of carrots or sugar snap peas and some goldfish or whole wheat crackers.  Or a few slices of pear and a piece of cheese.  When we're out and about, my go-to packaged snacks are the Plum Organics veggie shredz or the Earth's Best yogurt smoothies.  Both are portable and she realizes they are a treat, but they aren't as awful as cheezits or something like that.

Check out weelicious.com or her new cookbook.  There are tons of ways to introduce new foods into your child's diet.  Also, it's almost spring.  I don't know where you live but farmer's markets are getting ready to kick into gear.  Grow your own garden or at least a pot or two of carrots or strawberries or tomatoes. [/quote]

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