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ChooseMyPlate.gov

This site features practical information and tips to help you build a healthier diet based on USDA’s new food guidance icon, MyPlate.

Delish-Recipes (Kid Friendly Meals)

Delish-Recipes has a lot of healthy kid friendly recipes that will wow even the pickiest of your kids. These healthy meals will have your entire family savoring over dinner, this site encourages parents to allow their children to help them in the kitchen as this will more likely inspire the kids to eat what you have prepared together.

Dole 5 a day

Funded by Dole, a site that encourages kids to be healthy with nutrition based games and activities, music, recipes, comics, and videos.

Eat Smart. Play Hard. Campaign

This site is specifically designed for parents and caregivers to provide information to help you eat better, be more physically active and be a role model for your kids. This site contains information and resources to: help you get started, help you make smart choices, prepare quick, easy, and healthy meals that taste good and provide you with tips on how to increase physical activity in your life.

Eating Well-Kid Friendly Recipes

EatingWell.com offers recipes that are quick, healthy and delicious. They can be done in 30 minutes or less. These quick dinners are here to help you manage your busy day without sacrificing dinnertime. The collection of quick, healthy dinners will satisfy your family and will give you options such as quick chicken recipes, quick pasta dinners, and many more quick and healthy dinner ideas.

Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC)

The Food and Nutrition Information Center – a leader in food and human nutrition information dissemination since 1971 – provides credible, accurate, and practical resources for nutrition and health professionals, educators, government personnel and consumers.

Fuel Up to Play 60

Fuel Up to Play 60 is an in-school nutrition and physical activity program launched by National Dairy Council and NFL, in collaboration with the USDA, to help encourage today’s youth to lead healthier lives.

Grow It-Food Safety in the School Garden

Grow it gives resources on how to involve a youth in gardening. They provide resources to develop a youth garden at schools or in private property. Food safety in the school garden is an article that teaches youth and staff how to be conscious about safety when consuming “the fruits of their labor.” From tools and materials, to soil and compose safety, water source, harvesting, storing, preparing, and serving garden produce.

Growing Minds

Students can learn how to create and maintain a garden through the help of cimmunity partners and their school.

Harvest of the Month

Harvest of the Month provides free monthly materials and resources to help promote healthy choices.

 

Healthy Children

HealthyChildren.org is a website designed for parents by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Healthy Kids Out of School

From healthy, quick snack ideas to fun cooking activities to do in out-of-school-time programs, Healthy Kids Out of School’s website, Healthy Kids Hub, is filled with free educational materials, discounted products, and other special offers to help out-of-school-time programs promote healthy eating habits.