Fruits & Veggies Every Day the Tasty Way


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Healthy Kids Challenge makes healthy habit building easier. Choose each of the Healthy6 links below for helpful classroom, community, or family activities and tips. The suggestions on each page are updated frequently, so come back often. Order Healthy6 handouts for health fairs and family events.

Rather than weight, the Healthy Kids Challenge® focus is on six healthy habits (Healthy6).

Fruits and Veggies Every Day the Tasty Way is one of the evidence-based solutions, Healthy Kids Challenge® helps YOU put into practice. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health experts point to fruit and vegetable intake as a way to address the obesity crisis and other chronic diseases.
 

Happy 2nd Birthday MyPlate!

As of this June, MyPlate has been helping us make healthy food choices for 2 years! Celebrate by challenging yourself this month to fill half your meal plate with healthy fruits & veggies. Here's how:

  • Stock up on canned and frozen veggies that are quick and easy to prepare in the microwave.
  • Cut-up fruits & veggies and keep in refrigerator containers for quick meal appetizers.
  • Buy fresh fruits & veggies in season. They cost less and are likely to be at their peak flavor.

Girl with Fruit

Healthy Math Connections

Math problems are a great way to reinforce the "healthy, feel good power" of fruits & veggies while showing ways we use math every day.

Pre K-2nd Grade Ideas: (For helpful visuals, use fruit/veggie pictures or plastic food models.) If you go to the grocery store and buy 1 orange, 1 pear and 2 apples, how many pieces of fruit would you have? If you eat 2 fruits every day, how many days will you be able to eat fruit?

3rd-5th Grade Ideas: If you have 6 cups of veggies to serve 3 people, how many cups of veggies could each person have?

For more healthy lesson ideas like these, see the Health Works! toolkit!