Keep Your Family Excited About Fresh Foods

Tyler Grasham
3 min readApr 7, 2019

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Eating healthy foods is the best approach to living a healthy life. However, we all know about the struggles, especially the young ones who have tasted sweets and other foods which can be unhealthy when consumed in excess quantities. It is your responsibility to help your family stay excited about eating healthy foods.

In this post, I will be writing about some tips you can use to cook fresh foods and have everyone excited about the meal. After all, going back to the sweets is not an option. This is not a really tough position to be in; the tips I have noted for this post will be helpful if you start using them immediately.

Be prepared for the rebellion. You may find hidden cans of high-fat yogurt, chocolates or other sweets in your home. Use kind words to inform and encourage anyone who still craves those sweets that fresh foods are the best.

Explore different recipes for cooking fresh foods

You can try exploring different recipes to give your family a different taste as often as you can manage. This approach will help you learn more recipes and better cooking methods for different types of fresh foods. In addition to the added knowledge you will get, your families can also help by talking about the meal to inform you which recipes they enjoyed and wouldn’t mind eating again.

For example, if you notice your children don’t like eating beans which is very nutritious, you can do something to make beans seem more exciting as a meal. There are so many beans species which have different tastes and flavors. You can find out which beans species exist in your region and research the best recipes to cook the beans. I am sure the result will be a delicious meal your family will enjoy and ask for more.

Educate everyone about the nutritional value of fresh foods

If you can tell your family members more about the gains of eating fresh foods, maybe they can become more interested in your meals. This is what you can do, if you can find fresh food that aids physical or mental development to support your children’s dreams (if they are into sports or academics), they will be more willing to eat. When your son or daughter knows that eating fresh foods rich in protein can help them grow taller to achieve their dreams of becoming athletes, I am sure they will be asking for more of that meal.

Try foreign recipes

You can find foreign recipes for fresh foods to keep things exciting. If you can locate an Asian food store around, I am sure you will find different types of fresh foods to try. This approach adds a new twist to avoid serving the same meals every time.

You can also improve the quality of your meals by buying only the best fresh foods. It would help if you learned how to identify stale foods that may already be going bad. Also, find retail stores that stock foods directly from farms. This will be helpful if you buy meat cuts regularly. Also, check the labels for expiry dates.

In conclusion, observe the reaction of your family members to know which foods they enjoy, make a list of these foods and serve them often. — Tyler Grasham

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Originally published at tylergrasham1.wordpress.com on April 7, 2019.

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