How To Get Your Teenager To Love Salads




Eating healthy can be a hard battle to win in a world where unhealthy food is readily available for your teenager. Now that they are back in school, it may be even more difficult to rein in their unhealthy habits as they pick from the food bar at school. Salads are a great way to keep their bodies and teeth healthy. Here are 5 tips and tricks to get your teenagers to love salads.

1.     Put a variety of vegetables in the salad. A salad with only tomatoes and ice burg lettuce can get old. Mix it up a bit with a variety of vegetables including ones that you know they love.
2.     Put chicken, steak or other favorite meat as a toping. While they are enjoying the flavor of their favorite meet they are getting the benefits of eating healthy.
3.     Mix it up with different spices and salad dressings. Now days you can find a recipe for any type of salad you want to try. Enjoy a spin-off of a regular side salad with a vinegar salad dressing or honey mustard salad dressing.
4.     Serve salad at every meal and require them to take a little. Trying new flavors can help your teenager enjoy a variety of healthy foods out there. “While they may not like every single one,” says, Dr. CameronFuller, “they are bound to enjoy a few. Even if they do not tell you that. “

For more healthy options, contact Dr. Fuller and his team today!

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