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- Involve children in shopping, cleaning, peeling, and preparing fruits. Children are more likely to eat foods that they select and help prepare.
- Allow children to pick out a new fruit to try at home.
- Use fruits as an edible decoration for plates orserving dishes.
- Top off a bowl of cereal with some berries,bananas, or peaches.
- Add banana slices to a peanut butter sandwich.
- Offer raisins or other dried fruits instead of candy.
- Make fruit kabobs using pineapple chunks,bananas, and berries.
- Serve fruit side dishes and sauces such as mango salsa or berry compote with chicken, fish, or meat.
- Keep cut fruit readily available for children.
- Whole fruits can be difficult for children to handle.
- Bake fruits such as apples or pears for dessert.
- Make healthy frozen fruit bars using 100% juice as alternatives to high-fat snacks.
- Make a fruit smoothie with fat-free or low-fat milk or yogurt and fresh, canned, or frozen fruit. Try bananas, peaches, strawberries, or other berries.
- Try fruits with different textures – crunchy apples,nsmooth and creamy bananas, and juicy oranges.
Resource
National Food Service Management Institute
The University of Mississippi