Getting Your Kids Started on a Healthy Fish Diet
Have you taught your children to eat fish? Not yet? Well, you better start now before it gets too late!
All of us know that eating fish brings a lot of healthy benefits – evidence after evidence is piling up to support this claim. And not teaching your children to develop a taste for this wonderful food from the seas is a grave injustice, if you ask me!
A wonderful way to develop your children’s taste for fish is by setting an example. Young children basically imitate what their parents do so it would be a great advantage if you yourself eat fish.
What? You don’t eat fish, too? You hate the “fishy” taste? Well, admittedly, fish doesn’t taste like chicken. But it doesn’t have to taste “fishy” either. Here are some things you need to know about fish to help you and your children develop a taste for it and live a long, healthy life ahead:
- Choose the freshest fish. If you are put off by the fishy taste, buy the freshest fish you can find and serve it as soon as you can. For your information, fresh fish seldom taste “fishy”.
- Learn some new recipes. Why not buy yourself a cookbook and try out some exciting new recipes? Before you know it, you’ll find several that your family will surely enjoy!
- Work your way up. If you are put off by the strong fish flavor in omega 3 rich fish such as salmon, mackerel, sardines and herring, why not try some milder tasting fish first? Start with fish like grouper and sea bass and gradually work your way up. It’ll be an easy and fun way to get started!
Introducing fish to younger children is undoubtedly one of the easiest ways to get them started on the way to good health. I know that for a fact. I started giving our children fish oil on a spoon when they were about 6 months old. Before long, they started chewing the capsules on their own. Now that they’re older, they prefer eating fish to almost any other meat!
However, don’t worry even if your older children have already established their food preferences. They may have developed a liking for all the wrong kinds of foods but you can still get them to eat fish - if you’re tough enough to do so!
Try serving fish at the dinner table for at least two times a week. Prepare nothing else during those days. I tell you, they’ll eat it when they get hungry enough!
Teaching your kids to eat fish is not a cruel thing to do. On the contrary, it’s one of the best things you can do for them. They’ll surely thank you for it when they get older!
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