Teach kids to cook at an early age. Take children food shopping, explaining which foods are healthy and which are not. Eventually encourage them to prepare their school lunches by themselves. Take them to farmer's markets and fruit stands where shopping is fun and the produce tastes the most delicious. Let them choose their favorites.
Children are always in awe at the wonder of nature's process.
Make eating fun. Create a salad man with sliced fruit for the body, raisins, and nuts for eyes, cherries for the mouth, enoki mushrooms for the hair. Be creative with tasty, healthful after-school snacks such as nuts and raisins, dried and fresh fruit, plain yogurt and fresh fruit, apples, and bananas and celery smeared with almond butter. One of our favorites was almond or cashew butter mixed with raisins, dried fruit, sunflower and sesame seeds, and coconut. We also loved Mom's blender drinks sweetened with our favorite fruits.