4 healthy meals you and your picky eater will love

4 healthy meals you and your picky eater will love

You’ve likely been there — you’ve made a perfectly balanced and tasty meal, but your kids refuse to even try it. Now they’re asking for mac and cheese, and you’re worried you haven’t managed to get a single vegetable in them all day.

Megan Kochanek, a nutritionist, and Dr. Jeremy Daigle, a pediatrician — both at Advocate Children’s Hospital — have chosen four easy and healthy meals for your family, and a reminder that meal preparation is a good opportunity to team up with your kids.

“Often, if you involve your child in making dinner, they will be happier to eat it,” says Kochanek.

Try one of these simple, delicious dinners tonight:

 

 

 

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Holly Brenza
Holly Brenza

Holly Brenza, health enews contributor, is a public affairs coordinator on the content team at Advocate Health Care and Aurora Health Care. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago. In her free time, Holly enjoys reading, watching the White Sox and Blackhawks, playing with her dog, Bear and running her cats' Instagram account, @strangefurthings.