It is usually a challenge to feed your children healthy foods, especially when you like to dine out. Although, it is challenging, it is not impossible. All you need to do is choose the foods that you give your child when you are at a restaurant. Some of the best foods to give your child include:

Grilled chicken and pasta

Grilled chicken and pasta is one of the best dishes you should give your child when visiting an Italian restaurant. The dish contains 350 calories, 6 grams of fat and 5 grams of fiber. Although the food is not high in calories, the sodium levels are too high (840 milligrams); therefore, you should not give it to your child regularly.

Sandwich

This is another great dish that you can give to your child. Although the deli sandwich looks very tempting, you should avoid it as it tends to contain more than 1,000 milligrams of sodium. Instead, you should have a PB&J sandwich that contains 410 calories, 18 grams of unsaturated fat, and 550 milligrams of sodium.

grilled chicken dish

This contains 160 calories, 3.5 grams of fat and 170 milligrams of sodium. If you’re adventurous, you should grab a grilled chicken sandwich that contains 230 calories, 230 milligrams of sodium, and 5 grams of fat. To make the meal more tempting, you should add celery sticks (80 calories), steamed broccoli (30 calories), or pineapple (35 calories).

Roasted Fish

The grilled fish contains 200 calories, 1.5 grams of fat and 350 milligrams of sodium. If you don’t like grilled fish, you should have Grilled Fish with Garlic which contains 60 calories, 580 milligrams of sodium and 1 gram of fat. Good accompaniments for these foods are: fresh broccoli (45 calories), fruit (40 calories) or garden salad (90 calories).

conclusion

These are some of the best foods you can give your child. As you have seen, most of the foods sold in restaurants are not healthy; therefore, you should take them only once in a while.

To make sure that your child is healthy, it is good to involve him in regular exercises. To get ideal results, you need to make sure that the exercises are fun. For example, you should involve your child in hoop dancing, the Olympics on the playground, and jumping on the trampoline.

You should discourage your child from sitting on the bus all day watching television, as this will make him or her fat. If you don’t have time to exercise your child, you should consider hiring a trainer.