Friday 26 October 2012

Convenience Foods For Kids

Convenience foods are gaining popularity among various households. The reason being, it’s ease to use and requires less preparation time. Convenience foods are available in a variety of flavors and more importantly these meals are healthy. They fill you with everyday required nutrients. It is really difficult for the working parents to serve their kids a freshly prepared nutritious meal every time. To avoid inconvenience, they can stock their refrigerators and kitchen cupboards with delicious convenient and nutritious foods and prepare a healthy meal in no time. Moreover, children love the various yummy delicacies and pick the one of their choice to satisfy the taste buds.

Breakfast: A quick and nutritious breakfast is what you want in the morning, as you have to drop the kids to the school and head to work. Here you can rely on convenience breakfast to feed your entire family with a tasty yet nutritious breakfast that can be prepared in a very less time. Convenient breakfasts like low-sugar instant oatmeal provides with fiber and iron and high fiber cereal breakfast made with sliced fruits like banana, strawberry, almonds cashew nuts etc. provides essential vitamins, minerals and fiber.

Lunch: What your kids eat at the cafeterias of the school may be unhealthy. You can get healthy convenient food packed instead. The lunch may include hotdogs with frozen meat sausages, corn tacos with variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian frozen fillings. These hot-dog sausages and frozen taco fillings are glutton free and give your kid the essential proteins, fibers and minerals required to maintain his/her overall health while saving your time. You can also prepare peanut butter sandwich with whole-wheat bread. This can be prepared quickly and provides the body a good supply of fiber, protein and vitamins. You can thereby pack healthy lunches for your kids in a hurry.

Dinner: After returning home from work, one is generally too tired to cook fresh food for kids and oneself. Therefore, a convenient ready to eat meal can make for a healthy dinner and can be prepared in a less time effortlessly. Ready to eat foods that are fully or partially cooked like pasta can be prepared in less than 10 minutes and served with low sodium frozen spaghetti sauce. Corn tortilla filled with low fat shredded cheese and other nutritious frozen fillings and chopped tomatoes is another nutritious dinner that can be prepared quickly and provide fiber, proteins and vitamins to the body. A healthy meal at dinner time will energy to the child, which will help him study with concentration and do his homework.

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