March is National Nutrition Month, the perfect time to introduce your kidlets to the Healthy Habits plates from Super Healthy Kids!
The Healthy Habits kids plate helps kids learn and follow the USDA guidelines to make half their meal fruits and vegetables, using divided sections and fun images to reinforce the teaching. Kids and caregivers can easily see what portions of their plate should be filled with fruits & veggies, grains, & protein.
The Healthy Habits plate is available in Original and new Vegetarian design!
Here's Birdie showing off her Healthy Habits plate. She's not much of a meat eater, so she has the vegetarian version. Instead of a chicken drumstick, eggs & beans in the protein section, hers has a picture of nuts, seeds & beans :)
It's pretty common for toddlers to refuse meat, and I'm not a big meat eater myself, so I'm not concerned - but it's important to not just skip the meat, but to replace it with another source of protein. The Healthy Habits plate serves as a visual reminder for me to fill that portion of my little one's diet. I ♥ these plates!
The Healthy Habits plate also comes as part of
gift set complete with a bowl that holds a full serving of vegetables, and a cup to encourage drinking water:
Super Healthy Kids also makes a
4 sectioned plate set that supports the USDA MyPlate icon, with sections for Grains, Protein, Vegetables & Fruit. It's available solo or as part of a Lesson Plan set, which includes a perfectly portioned Dairy bowl. I love that little Dairy bowl for my Pickle's yogurt, and the plate is 10 year Beanstalk's favourite. He doesn't like his foods to touch, so the deep sections are perfect for him, and the design is not too young.
Here are a few yummy balanced meals my sproutlets recently enjoyed served on their Healthy Habits plates!
This hearty vegetarian supper made a colourful plate! Cornbread muffin for grain, chili for protein, & carrots, corn & grapes in the fruit & veggies half:
Crisp lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, radishes, celery, and a sprinkling of shredded cheese make up the bulk of this lunch plate, with seasoned Triscuit crackers and soy protein stir-fried in Italian salad dressing making savoury sides. And my girls loved this heart-themed lunch featuring an egg for protein, rice cakes in the grain section, lots of juicy grapes & great big strawberries.
Sometimes we have convenience foods, and the Healthy Habits plates help us with our serving sizes of those foods, and remind us to make the rest of our meal fruits & vegetables :)
And I've decided this post is long enough, so come back tomorrow if you want to see my favourite plate lunch I've ever made, so far... and on Healthy Habits plates too :) ... (sneak preview in the 1st pic)
You'll also find a variety of plate suggestions and meal ideas on the
Super Healthy Kids website. It's a fantastic resource for fun family nutrition! There are recipes, meal plans, printables, and more - including the Healthy Habits plates and sets available for purchase! And the awesome Super Healthy Kids blog!
There's even a recipe inspired by one of my lunches!
Would you like a FREE Healthy Habits plate?
Of course you would! And
Super Healthy Kids has generously offered to give one lucky reader the Healthy Habits plate of their choice, free!
All you have to do to be entered is comment on this post, telling me which plate style you'd like if you win, Original or Vegetarian!
I'd also love it if you'd
follow my blog, and
Like both
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Super Healthy Kids on Facebook, and/or
Tweet this giveaway - but since not everyone is on Facebook & Twitter, I won't make those mandatory. I
will give you a separate bonus entry for doing each of them though (or to say you already do)! Just make sure you leave a separate comment for each of the 4 possible bonus entries. And make sure I have a way to contact you if you win! I'm not a detective! If clicking your name in your comment will not link me to your email address, please include it in your comment - thanks :)
Giveaway closes Friday March 9th at 11pm PST. Winner will be selected by Random.org and notified via email & in Monday's blog post.
Good Luck!
The giveaway is now closed - thanks for entering!
Disclosure: I received 2 Vegetarian Healthy Habits plates free for review from Super Healthy Kids, but was in no other way compensated. All opinions are my own. I purchased the Original Healthy Habits plate, bowl & cup set, and the 4 section MyPlate set myself, since we liked the plates we received for review so much :)
The book tells about the journey foods make from where they begin until they get to us, depicting orchards, farms, greenhouses, factories, dairies, and finally, all the foods together in a child's lunchbox. It does not talk about meat, which was a relief. The girls and Pickle do not like to hear about animals becoming food. It does talk about healthy eating, what each food group does for our bodies, and how much we need of each. The small sproutlets & I liked it ... 3 thumbs up!
