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Getting kids to eat a nutrient-packed diet is not always easy. In fact, for some parents, it’s downright overwhelming. Good nutrition is critical for kids for more reasons than we could possibly squeeze into this one blog post, so for today, we’ve decided to focus on fiber.Fiber, known as roughage or bulk, is an essential building block of a healthy diet. It promotes a healthy digestive system, and keeps kids regular. But for picky eaters who prefer mac & cheese and chicken nuggets over fiber-filled fruits, veggies, whole grains, and beans, meeting the daily requirement for fiber can be a huge challenge, to say the least.
If you’re wondering just how much fiber kids need each day, the American Academy of Pediatrics offers the following new guidelines:
Age/Gender
2 – 3 years … 19 grams/day
4 – 8 years … 25 grams/day
9 – 11 years (Female) … 26 grams/day
9 – 11 years (Male) … 31 grams/dayToday we are offering a double giveaway that we hope will help to solve your fiber woes. The first is a hand-painted, 15-inch Lazy Susan from Tiffany Bradlee Designs (an $80.00 value), and our one lucky winner will get to choose from over a dozen beautiful designs. Using a Lazy Susan during mealtime can entice even the most finicky eater to try new foods. Simply place it in the middle of your table, top with small bowls and plates filled with healthy foods, spin it around a few times, and you’ve got a fun and playful way to whet any child’s appetite.
The second is another appetizing solution to the fiber conundrum — a one-year supply of Fiber Gummies for one child … 19 jars valued at over $150.00. Let’s face it, even the most adventurous eaters don’t always get all the fiber they need, and that’s where Fiber Gummies come in. Just three Fiber Gummies add 4.5 total grams of fiber to a child’s diet (the same amount of fiber found in a cup of corn). They come in three great tasting natural fruit flavors, are sugar-free, and don’t contain any artificial colors at all — something we really appreciate (by the way, Liz has worked on a few projects with them, and her son, Simon, is a big fan). You can find Fiber Gummies at Target and Walgreens near the other Pedia-Lax products over in the digestive health section.
To Enter our Lazy Susan / Fiber Gummies Giveaway all you have to do is leave us a comment and let us know what you do to increase your family’s fiber intake (i.e. fiber-rich recipe ideas, mealtime strategies, etc).
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Our giveaway ends on Friday, May 15th at noon. As always, we’ll use Random.org to choose the winner.
On a final note, be sure to check out our tips for adding more fiber to kids’ diets by watching the video posted below, and download this really cool Fiber Diary to help you keep track of your child’s daily fiber intake.
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I increase fiber in my family’s diet by offering wheat germ as “sprinkles” on top of soups and veggies. We use whole wheat pastas in recipes. I try to replace a third of the flour called for in a recipe with whole wheat.
Raisin Bran and High Fiber Quaker Oatmeal are breakfast staples here. And we love those Gummies!
We are starting to increase our diet by weekly doing a dinner from homemade fresh cracked or ground wheat. Last week we had fried wheat which was like fried rice, but a lot better for you and a lot more filling.
I try to incorprate food with fiber into regular food like adding spinach to stews or soups. I add veggies to pasta. THey never have a clue.
Veggies…lots and lots of them, snuck into sweet treats and casseroles, steamed as a side dish, and also raw.
I try to make sure that fruits and veggies are part of each meal. I’ve made pancakes with whole wheat flour replacing half the amount of four called for in the recipe. I’ve also added wheat germ, oat bran and ground flaxseed to oatmeal. I offer popcorn as a snack, which my daughter loves. We also use the gummies!
Mostly I try to offer alot of the real deal. My 2 1/2 year old is really good at eating about anykind of fruit (with a specific fondness of blue berries) and whole wheat/ grain items. The veggie department doesn’t always fair quite as well but broccoli, carrots and sweet potatoes some times pass.
On weekends, my kids love my stove top oatmeal topped with chopped apples and walnuts.
I have gone to buying only whole grain breads. buy only whole grain cereals. Lots more fresh fruit around and always large portions of veggies at dinner.
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We sprinkle fiber-sure into their milk and into mac and cheese. I’ve also started buying the Oroweat Double Fiber bread to combat all of the binding properties in the cheese part of the grilled cheese sandwiches that they love. The double fiber bread is great because it tastes just like the regular wheat bread!
We only eat whole wheat pasta, bread and cereals around here. In fact, my 7 year old refuses to eat plain white pasta! He doesn’t like the texture. We also use the extreme fiber tortillas for tacos, quesadillas or as a side of bread with dinner. And 2 of my 3 children are really great fruit eaters. It’s my oldest that I have to work on.
We only serve whole wheat bread, pasta, cereal, etc. so the kids have always had that fiber. Now that better fruit is in season, we’re picking something new each week to try (I have 3 kids so it’s always someone’s turn to choose). Next week, our local farmer’s markets will start up, and then we’ll have even more veggies and fruit to choose from.
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Just subscribed to the blog–and one more tip: I have the kids help me make our own whole wheat bread in the bread machine (we just use the dough setting, then put it in a loaf pan and bake in the oven so it comes out more evenly). They love to help and then eat it up!
My kids are good about eating a veggie and fruit with their packed lunch of “higher fiber” whole wheat bread. I am going to try to sneak in some 1/2 wheat pasta and see what happens!
I’ve switched to whole wheat breads and Barilla Plus pastas. I’ve started adding a touch of butter to steamed veggies, in addition to olive oil, to make the vegetable a bit more appealing to my daughter. A tiny pat of butter will flavor the veggies a lot more than I ever would have guessed. And at playdates, I always put out carrots since some of the OTHER kids love carrots and now my daughter has started eating them, too. I should have the carrot-loving kids over more often than the non-veggie-loving kids
My 2 1/2 year old is a really great eater. She eats tons of fruits and veggies, high fiber oatmeal, whole grain EVERYTHING (bread, pancakes, pasta, etc.) and she STILL has some constipation issues! She is even on Miralax every other day. I would LOVE to try the Fiber Gummies to see if they would help (although don’t tell my pediatrician because she says gummy vitamins, etc. are SO bad for kids’ teeth they should never be used…I use them anyway and am just vigilant about brushing her teeth right after). The gummies could serve 2 purposes…they could be a great motivator to use the potty as well! She doesn’t need to know they aren’t candy! Off to twitter about the giveaway now!
My boys are 5 and 9 and when they were toddlers they ate everything. Now they eat nothing. I have mixed pureed cauliflower in the boxed mac and cheese. I use every creative way to hide veggies in my meals. Thank you for the shredded carrots in ground meats. My husband always askes before we eat “What is really in here?”
we eat an apple a day….or some sort of fruit. Your useful trick of shredding carrots to ground beef is also a big plus.
The kids like to take healthy snacks in their lunch, they like applesauce, mandarin oranges, baby carrots, sliced green pepper, or cucumbers. Strangely (to me) they seem to prefer raw vegetables to cooked most times!
I buy whole grain breads and make sure the kids eat either fresh fruit or veggies at every meal. I also push drinking lots of water . I read that it is important to increase your water intake when eating fiber otherwise the fiber will cause further binding and constipation.
My favorite trick is to serve a bowl of frozen blueberries (less mess) or corn when the kids need a last-minute snack before dinner. They gobble it up and I’m not so concerned if they don’t eat a lot of veggies at dinner.
I am proud to say that my kids eat veggies very well, so that part is not much of a battle. I love using wheat flour to replace some of the white flour in recipes, too, and I use wheat germ and flaxseed in cookies, bars, breads or granola mixes and nobody knows!!
Hi Amy:
The Fiber Gummies are sugar free so you don’t have to hide them from your pediatrician! Good luck!
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Sounds like fun! The lazy susans are beautiful!
To increase fiber intake, I put out different colors of raw cabbage (green,
purple, white) in addition to the usual baby carrots. I also substitute whole wheat flour for 1/2 cup of white flour used in oatmeal cookies on the Quaker Oats box.
we eat only whole wheat bread and pasta and the kids is are pretty good about eating fruits & veggies (only certain veggies,not all). I just bought some wheat germ so I hope to sneak that into something. We also have been making more smoothies although my oldest does not like them for some reason even though he would eat all of the ingredients separately. (yogurt, blueberries, etc). I already subscribe to the newsletter but I will send out a tweet about the giveaway too @digilang
I am trying to convert my family to brown rice, whole grain pasta, and brown bread. They do like the arnold whole wheat sandwich thins with veggie burgers. I am looking for a good recipe for mac&cheese that is healthy.
(Thanks much for your visit at the Kids Cooking Green workshop at Estabrook. My daughter loved the smoothies!)
We have single wrapped dried plums handy -ready to snack on. We always use whole wheat pasta and I love sneaking left over sweet potatoes or squash into banana bread, cupcakes or whatever I feel like baking. I have my kids try my creations with quinoa, whole wheat couscous, or wheat berries to name a few. I have the gummies on my shopping list to look for now also.
We eat only whole grain breads and pastas. I include a fruit or veggie in their lunchbox everyday. We also eat at least one vegetable with dinner. Fruits and veggies are offered as snacks too. I don’t by sugar loaded breakfast cereals either. They like Raisin Bran, Cheerios and Mini-wheats or even oatmeal. Those are some of the ways we get the fiber in.
My teenagers won’t eat the steel-cut oatmeal with cinnamon, raisins and apples that my husband and I eat every morning, so I put the leftover oatmeal into the whole wheat bread that I make most every day in my bread machine. My kids will eat several slices of that bread when it comes out hot of the machine every evening for dinner.
WHOLE wheat foods, sneak in the flax and wheat germ, and a lot of fruit!
Seems to keep the pipes running around here!
I add legumes and fruit (such as raspberries) to almost all of our dinner salads. They taste great and no one realizes I’m simply adding to their fiber intake
I stick to whole grain foods. Whole wheat pasta, whole grain tortillas, Ezekiel breads and english muffins and whole grain bagels.
I also add diced veggies into our taco meat or spaghetti sauces. Carrots, peppers and squash.
Plus, my girls love carrots, apples, berries, peas and beans so we eat plenty of those too.
We stick to whole grains in cereals, breads, and sides: whole grain pasta, brown rice pasta, brown rice, millet, quinoa, brown rice bread, whole wheat breat, brown rice and whole wheat cereals. We also make power bars packed with fiber and add flax seed to homemade muffins, cookies, etc. We also add legumes to many recipes to stretch our meat and to add fiber.
We are big on whole grains at home, my kids just don’t know the difference thankfully. Whole wheat toast, mini bagels, waffles, pancakes…also, I just bought a juicer and my 4 year old LOVES apple/carrot juice. We really try to snack on lots of fruit too. Great giveaway and I really enjoyed your video Liz!!
I try to choose bread that has higher fiber counts in them.
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We buy breads, english muffins, wraps and most other bakery items with whole grains. For an added burst of fiber, we add spoonfuls of bran to packaged oatmeal!
To add fiber to my fam’s diet, I add black beans to almost EVERYTHING! We add a few to mac and cheese, toss a few on top of chicken dish, smash some up and put them in our pasta sauce.. And now my son LOVES to just snack on them!!
And we always have a fruit or veggie with every meal. Now when given the choice between chocolate or applesauce, my 4 year old (usually!) chooses applesauce!
I increase our fiber intake by adding fiber-rich pureed veggies to sauces. I also buy whole wheat everything so it’s the norm in our house.
Whenever I make pancakes, waffles, or bread, I always use half whole wheat flour and half white flour.
I only buy high-fiber pasta, and also buy bread with at least 3g of fiber/slice. I also sprinkle a little wheat germ in my baked goods.
We’ve switched to flax seed bread from sour dough. I send greens/spinach salads in school lunches almost daily. We all eat orange wedges daily too. Not drastic measures, but effective ones.
Trader Joe’s carries fruit bars (fruit leather) called Fiberful, they have 6 grams of fiber and no sugar added. My daughter LOVES them! She takes them for snack at school and they are easy to just throw in your bag for an on the go snack. The bars come in apricot and berry, they are sold individually buy them by the box full.
Honestly I was not aware of the amount of fiber in grams that kids should be eating, so thank you for sharing that with us. I do try to make sure they are getting enough fruits and veggies and whole grains but will now be more pro active in making sure they are getting enough fiber in thier diets. We always try to buy whole grain cereal and i sometimes add a fiber powder to foods when cooking. It cant be seen or tasted, so they never know! Beans are something we are trying to eat more of as well! Thanks again! ~Melissa (jimmiss71@aol.com)
Adding fiber is a challenge for our family because my son is very sensitive to food textures and many fiber rich foods have a lot of texture. Whole grain pasta and omega-2 enriched whole grain breads work well for us.
I have always used the powdered fiber supplement in baking, soups and our everyday drinks. I actually love the stuff and it helps me keep up my fiber grams too!
I like to use whole wheat flour in as many recipes as I can. Also, lots of fruits and veggies!
I use whole wheat pasta, whole wheat tortillas, and Whole grain bread. I also have lots of whole fruit for my kids to snack on.
I try to buy fiber rich foods. Things that we like with fiber added. I love that they (including dad!!!) can’t tell they are eating soemthing good for them. Nutrition bars, granola bars, fruits and veggies.
I also replace white flour with wheat in recipes. We always have tons of fresh fruits and veggies ready to go (we get a weekly delivery from Boston Organics)! We eat brown rice and use whole wheat pasta but having a teenager with a gluten allergy adds a challenge with some of the typical fiber intake in terms of grains but being good fruit and vegetable eaters helps. I love legumes but my daughter is pickier about some of those things. We do what we can and try to stay aware.
I replace all purpose flour with wheat flour. I cook legumes more and eat with brown rice for our lunch only. You can see my recipes in legumes
http://exotickitchen.blogspot.com/2008/10/legumes.html
Avoid frozen food. Cook more fresh veggies at home and wash and eat fruits.
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We try to include whole grains and beans in our diets. it’s been a challenge to work in the recommended fiber amounts but we’re getting there!
Eat oatmeal at least twice a week
Having fresh fruit and vegetables at every meal is something we’ve been doing for some years. We also now use high fiber cereals and breads and I do beleive that these changes have made a difference in how we both feel.
Because of heath reasons we have had to made drastic changes in our diet by incorporating more fish, fruits, vegetables and healthy grains. Our doctors are pleased with the differences they are seeing in our various tests so we are believers!
We only have hole wheat past and bread. I have taken all kinds off green vegetables ground them up and put them in most off the food I cook.
We eat whole grain breads, oatmeal with wheat germ and soy grits, whole wheat pastas, legumes, quinoa, couscous, and brown rice. Fruit smoothies with ground flax. We also eat lots of vegetables.
i use a lot of high fibre breads and cereals and pasta in addition to lots of fruit and veggies
I’ve been incorporating beans into different dishes. Added white beans to a low fat lasagna. Made a Mexican lasagna with no meat, just beans. Also purchase whole grain breads with at least 2g of fiber or more.
I give my boyfriend’s daughters the following high fiber rich treats:
* banana, peach, orange, mango and strawberry smoothies
* dried fruit trail mix such as apricots, dates, nuts, and raisins
* fruit salads with berries such as blackberries, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries
P.S. The fiber gummies seems like a great idea to increase their fiber diet
When I bake, I try to use at least 1/4 the amount of flour as whole wheat. Also, I add Benefiber powder to smoothies and to yogurt . You can’t even tell it’s there, as it has no taste or color.
I add ground flax seed dry Fiber One cereal to cooked oatmeal- it adds nutrition, flavor and crunch!!
We limit breads, but when we do eat them they are whole wheat. Whole wheat pasta has replaced enriched pastas. We eat out sparingly so we can cook at home with fresh foods. Flax seeds, etc…much like others have said.
To help increase fiber intake, I try to serve fruit along with dinner. I find that a few slices of defrosted peaches with dinner will increase the fiber content, I can cut down on meat portion sizes, and reduce the sweet tooth craving after dinner.
i sprinkle flaxseed on oatmeal and cereal
I try to encourage fruits and veggies and use my MMM cookbook as much as possible!
We eat a lot of fruit and only buy whole grain bread and whole grain cereals (no sugary stuff). We also like eating dried apricots (which have no added sugar unlike other dried fruits) as a snack. I use Fiber One cereal as a breading for baked meats mixed with a bit of bread crumbs. I also add just a touch of Benefiber to my girls’ milk @ breakfast. Our real battle is veggies, but they must eat at least one veggie of their choice with dinner each night. We’re making baby steps!
We are pretty lucky around here as my two are good veggie eaters. I just make sure that they have fresh fruit at breakfast and fresh or steamed veggies at lunch and supper. Bedtime snack is usually fruit. Hodgson’s Mill makes a great 50/50 blend of white and ww flour. That’s the only flour I use for baking. The Barilla pasta blends are a favorite around here, too. Flavored (cherry and orange) dried plums are delish!
We mix high fiber cereal with regular cereal for snacks.
broccoli, frozen petite peas, apple slices, salad, whole-grain crackers and bread, Barilla Plus pasta … it all adds up !
oh, and how could I forget – hummus,and black beans/pinto beans added to anything Tex-Mex (and the Meal Makeover moms quick black bean soup recipe is great !)
No white breads/grains/flours in our house at all. We eat Raisin Bran for breakfast nearly every morning & on weekends, it’s homemade whole wheat banana pancakes. Corn tortillas replace flour. I make homemade hummus & mix black beans into our taco meat.
I love fresh fruit and also we have added almonds to our diet. Almonds have fiber and magnesium which help.
To increase our fiber I make may recipes that include beans. I also incorporate whole wheat flour whenever possible and serve lots of fresh fruit.
I sprinkle ground flax seed over my family’s oatmeal each morning.
I always add more vegies and fruit to recipes, and I also finely chop vegies when I need to disguise them.
I eat fruits and vegetables every day, and so does my dad. My mom does sometimes. I eat whole grain cereal for breakfast, too.
I have to admit I love Fiber One granola bars. And my picky eater enjoys Fiber One yogurt. We sprinkle ground flaxseed in yogurt, on salads, on cold cereal.
I eat a lot of fruit and veggies but also like fiber one products.
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I hide flaxseed in my banana bread… buy fiber-rich cereals and fiber-rich breads.
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I buy fiber-rich cereal when I go to the store and I really love the Fiber-One oats and chocolate bars. We’ve also stopped using white bread and have gone with whole grain or 7 grain bread for sandwiches.
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I make smoothies and add wheat germ to them..my daughter never knows she is eating it..
My boys love smoothies. I will often make them for breakfast because they have everything they need to start their day right. This is enough for 2 smoothies
To make them; I use a serving of yogurt (now they have all the fiber added to yogurt which would boost the fiber count), a banana, 1 1/2 cup fresh or frozen strawberry’s and blueberries, 8 oz juice (I use the light apple to reduce the unnecessary sugar), and 2 TBSP Wheat Germ which is great for adding fiber and protein. Sometimes I will even add some ground flax seed, or a tad of vanilla. Blend it well in the blender. They are super picky eaters and never even notice the “extra goodness” added to their breakfast.
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