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Love Your Veggies

We get excited about vegetables, but kids need a little more of a nudge. Through the Love Your Veggies campaign, we’ve committed over $1 million to schools and organizations to help seed, and grow, a love of veggies in kids from an early age.

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asparagus

artichokes

bell peppers

carrots

corn

summer squash

mushroom

cauliflower

broccoli

potatoes

cucumber

peas

lettuce

spinach

sweet potatoes

tomatoes

radishes

winter squash

beets

zucchini

snap peas

celery

10 Fresh Tips

Tip 1: Team shopping

Let your child help pick out items in the grocery store. Discuss options and support healthy choices along the way.
Tip 2: Play with your food

Give the kids cookie cutters to create shapes out of sandwiches, or explore new ways to add fun textures to veggies, like ridges or curlicues.
Tip 3: Team shopping

Try and partner with another family and take turns making healthy snacks the kids can share with their close friends. Soon they’ll be keeping each other on track.
Tip 4: A shared plan

Do meal planning for the week with your kids and talk about including veggies in terms of textures (something crunchy to accompany a sandwich, for instance, carrots or bell pepper slices) and timing — crunchy favorites for “snack attack time.”
Tip 5: Little prep cooks

Enlist your kids to help make their own lunches. Have them work beside you while you’re preparing dinner. You’ll wind up encouraging healthy, balanced choices, and giving them a sense of accomplishment - in one fell swoop.
Tip 6: A rainbow of color

Kids respond to vibrant colors. Deep orange, green and purple veggies let kids paint their own rainbow - while providing Vitamin A, Vitamin B and helpful antioxidants.
Tip 7: Book smart

Choose reading materials for your kids that feature healthy eating choices. Eric Carle’s “Very Hungry Caterpillar” and the children’s classic “Stone Soup” are just a couple.
Tip 8: Stretch that food dollar

Leftovers that make it into the brown bag the next day keep the nutritional value going while helping to shrink weekly expenses.
Tip 9: Growing bodies

Kids make excellent helpers in the garden. Start a project to plant and grow your own vegetables, and watch them beam with pride as they bring their prize crop to the table.
Tip 10: Snack time game plan

Make healthy options the go-to by having them prepped and ready. Try baby carrots, broccoli florets, celery stalks and sliced peppers. Good habits start when the right choices are the easy ones.