What's New! 1 Small Change Pledge, Healthy Snack Giveaway and NEW Nutrition Printables for Kids

We are sharing healthy snack tips all month- with a new healthy pledge, supporting material and a healthy giveaway each week!

Make a pledge to help kids choose healthier snacks this week and get special printable tip sheets with ideas to support your pledge, and enter to win a great healthy prize.

This year we are marching towards National Nutrition Month with our new healthy kids pledges. 

We hope you participate in our healthy pledges to help kids make one small change each week!

 This week's healthy pledge sponsor is Lundberg Farms Organic Rice Cakes!

"I Pledge To Help Children Choose Healthier Snacks"

Join the Healthy Pledge and enter for chance to win this healthy giveaway

We make it easy: You'll get 3 healthy printables with fun tip sheets to support your pledge.

1. Make the pledge 2. Print your tip sheets 3. Try making a small change with your kids for healthier snack food this week!

Small changes add up to great health benefits- Here's some resources to support your healthy snack pledge

There are so many reasons to enjoy these delicious whole grain rice cakes and so many fun ways to eat them- they are a perfect size and portable,  they make a great crunchy snack on their own, or you can get creative with healthy toppings. YUM!

Share the healthy pledge and giveaways- get code to share a badge to show you took the pledge, or share by clicking on the Tweet Button, writing a blog post about the pledge, Stumbleupon, or telling a friend or your local community health organization or teachers about the healthy pledges and free downloads.

We appreciate your support in promoting healthier foods to children- one healthy change at time!  Each week through March we will share a new healthy pledge, tip sheets, and giveaway. 

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​Go to official form to enter and join Chef Solus Healthy Pledge and enter giveaway!

Extra Entries- 4 ways to get more chances to win.

Hurry this week's giveaway ends on 1/21 at 11:59 PM PST

1. On Twitter create your own tweet "fill in the blank" for an extra entry to win use:

My child's fav @lundbergfarms Organic Rice Cake Snack Topper is___________________ #healthykidspledge Tweet or enter to win: http://ow.ly/8A1np

My fav @lundbergfarms Organic Rice Cake Snack Topper is___________________ #healthykidspledge Tweet or enter to win: http://ow.ly/8A1np

Or Share a photo of your rice cake and topper with this link to pledge http://tinyurl.com/7znveu9 and hashtag #healthykidpledge

2. Blog post for extra chance to win! Mention the healthy pledge and giveaway in your blog post - let us know about this entry by share a comment, email and link to your post below in our comments area

3. Share our badge and get code to link to us then leave a comment with link to the page you shared it on

4. Comment for extra entry: Share your favorite rice cake topping idea in the comment area below

Thanks for your support to help kids learn about nutrition and make healthier choices on small change at a time!

                     Maggie LaBarbera RN, MBA

Resources for Teaching Kids about Healthy Snacks and Tips for Parents

How can we help children learn make healthier snack food choices?

• Teach kids about the food groups and how to read food labels and how healthy foods help their body to grow, and be healthy and strong. For parents we have a quick guide to the food groups and a list of healthy snack food ideas for kids organized by food group.

• For example, Lundberg's 'Whole Grain' Rice Cakes are from the Grain Food Group- Use them combined with at least one other food group food.
  Have kids learn about fiber and whole grains with fun printables

• Learn more the Grains Food Group about the importance of whole grains and how to make sure children are getting the proper servings of Whole Grains.

• Keep it simple and fun- giving them 'bite sized' information over-time and bringing up the topic naturally in conversations is a great way to start.

• For balanced nutrition try to pick food from 2 food groups for each snack.

• Plan ahead for the week, or even a few days, for some healthy snacks- make a list and head the grocery store- you can even have the kids help find the food and read the food labels

• You're probably tired of hearing the phrase be healthy role model- so we can mix that up a bit by sharing this tip:

• Try being ' a bit overly-animated' when eating a healthy food about how delicious it is, or try to find opportunities where the kids see you choosing one healthy food 'over an unhealthy one' and discuss it with them why you choose the healthier food and leave it at that. Small healthy messages repeated over-time help children get the message.

• Try to stay around the perimeter of the store or go to a local farmer's market to find fresh produce!

• Buy some healthy ingredients and make your own snack packs together- kids can be great helpers: measuring, mixing, and cooking.

• Get reusable snack or lunch boxes or bags, and have the kids help scoop or fill to prepare the snack packs for the next day.

• Get creative - come up with fun names for healthy snack foods or let kids give their new snack creation a clever name.

• Bring on the color! Kids love colorful food- make it a mission to find naturally colorful food for snacks.

• Celebrate success and small changes, it takes time to change habits - give your child, and yourself, a pat on the back or word of encouragement for taking the healthy snack pledge!

Printables and Online Activities to promote healthy snacking for kids

Print our kids' healthy snack tracker page- a fun printable for younger kids to use to track their snack choices. See all healthy kids' goal trackers

See our chart of healthy snack food choices for kids organized by food group

Have kids learn about fiber and whole grains with fun printables

Printable of snacks kids can help prepare- from our kids' cooking fun area.

More great recipes for cooking with kids from The Kids Cook Monday website

What's NEW

We are also getting ready for February 'Heart Health Month' and Valentine's Day with healthy heart and fiber printable activities for kids.

Enjoy some of our games that teach kids about nutrition it's fun, healthy and FREE!  This is great way to reinforce the healthy snack pledge.

• Food Groups Jigsaw Puzzles
• Healthy Harvest Farm Maze
• Matching Meals Card Game
• Slap Snack Cards
• Talking Food Pyramid
• Talking My Plate  (NEW)
• Nutrient Machine Madness (NEW)
• Pyramid Panic Arcade
• Talking Food Label
• Chef Solus Word Search Nutrition Words
• Elena's Crossword Puzzles

About Nourish Interactive

We are web based company that is dedicated to supporting parents by providing them with useful information to help them improve their families health and educating children about the importance of nutrition and exercise.

We believe in the power of prevention and that starts by investing in our children's health today. We acknowledge and support the key roles of both the parents and the health educators.

We are very proud to share our Showcase page of national and local organizations that link to us and share our resources with their members. You may also want to read our Visitor Comments and hear how our resources are helping families and children every day.

Mission Statement

Nourish Interactive’s mission is to offer fun, innovative solutions that empower children to make healthy choices. We support parents and teachers with free interactive games and tools that promote a healthier lifestyle.

SEE this week's healthy pledge Google album and healthy snack printable resources

Healthy Snacks Giveaway and Pledge to Help Kids Eat Healthier Snacks