Halloween is a time when your sweet kids can become sugar-toothed monsters. It’s crucial to devise strategies to keep your children from going to the candy jar.
It’s vital to ensure your children eat healthy food, especially during holidays where there is a lot of sweets. Here are some guidelines.
Tips from Healthy Balancewww.HealthyBalance.com to help this Halloween
* Set limits. Limit how many treats your children can have. Instead, break up the candy into separate sandwich bags for each day. By telling your children that each small bag must last for a full day, you can limit how much candy they eat.
* Don’t leave the candy out. A bowl of candy should not be visible to children. They will most likely try to steal some pieces. Instead, keep the candy in a high cupboard and other places where kids won’t easily access it.
* Steer the focus of Halloween onto something other than candy. Invite your children to decorate your porch with a scary scene, or create a costume together. Encourage them to enjoy Halloween-themed healthy food like Blue Witch’s Brew (made with Old Orchard juice drinks).
Old Orchard Healthy Balance juice cocktails have 75 percent less sugar, carbs, and calories than other similar fruit juices. These juice cocktails have 100 percent vitamin C.
Healthy Balance sales support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s efforts to fund diabetes research by contributing a portion of the proceeds.
Blue Witch’s Brew
Serves 2
* 1/4 cup each Old Orchard Healthy Balance Cranberry juice and Pomegranate juice cocktail
* 2 cups low-fat blueberry yogurt
* 1 cup fresh blueberries
Blend the cranberry juices, pomegranate juices and blueberries until smooth. Blend in yogurt. You can keep it in the fridge or use immediately.
