The eating habits acquired as a child are generally effective in our entire lives. For this reason, it is very, very important to gain healthy eating habits from childhood.
The way to have a balanced and adequate nutrition is through the consumption of foods in the 4 basic food groups. These basic foods are; milk and dairy products, meat, vegetables and fruits and cereals.
In particular, children at the age of development regularly need foods such as milk, cheese, yoghurt, meat, eggs, dried legumes, seasonal vegetables and fruits, dried legumes, foods consisting of oil seeds, bulgur, rice, corn.
It is an indication that the child's development is normal and that he or she has adequate and balanced nutrition. Development in children is evaluated by determining the body weight and height that should be according to their age and gender.
You need to prepare what you will put in your child's lunch box according to his age, body weight and physical activity. It is important for the child to go to school as it is the first period of his life in a serious social life experience and consciousness is formed. Thus, while feeding at school, friends and environmental factors come into play outside of the family. In this context, taking food to school affects not only his physical health, but also his social adaptation process.
In order to provide a balanced and adequate nutrition, people in the school management and teachers should be educated about nutrition, apart from the family.
Children often want to skip breakfast or pass it off without going into details under pressure from their parents. When they go to school hungry, their attention can be distracted more quickly, headaches and fatigue may occur as the body and brain urgently need energy to start the day.
However, studies have revealed that students who have a good breakfast are more successful. A breakfast that provides enough energy and nutrients should include cheese and eggs, a few slices of bread, milk, molasses or marmalade, olives, tomatoes, green peppers, cucumbers, parsley or fruit.
Since children are in their growing age, it would be appropriate to have foods such as milk, ayran, fruit juice, cheese sandwich in the lunch box.
By preparing the foods they need in a way that they cannot say no, the sandwiches put in the lunch box can be decorated with vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, parsley, and you can support the inside of pies and pastries with various vegetables. If he doesn't want to eat fruit purely, you can make him eat fruit with fruit cakes, cookies or cakes and make him love it. For children who do not want milk or yoghurt, you can make them consume purees of various fruits, by preparing fruit milk, yoghurt or pudding.