Tricks To Get Kids To Eat Healthy Foods

Your child's school cafeteria might start using a little trickiness to get kids to eat better lunches.

It's not unlike what grocery stores do to get you to buy certain foods---call it "tricks of the trade". But school cafeterias are going to start borrowing a page or two from that book.

Getting kids to eat a healthier lunch should go a long way towards not only helping them lose weight, but also getting them into what is hopefully a lifelong habit of making good food choices.

School cafeterias have come a long way since the days of "mystery meat" and sodas a plenty. But even now, it's a struggle to get kids to make the correct choices. So, borrowing something retailers have used for years, cafeterias are starting to make healthy foods look more appealing and sort of "hiding" the not so healthy choices. This means putting salad bars right next to the checkout lines, where students tend to linger, giving them more time to think about grabbing one. Also, they might place the regular milk in front of the chocolate milk, or place fruits in nice looking baskets instead of metal bowls.

They are also making express lines for healthy foods and putting the not so healthy choices, like ice cream, in freezers that don't have windows on them, making them harder to see.

Hopefully these "tricks" that retailers have been using for years to get us to buy things we might not initially want, will go a long way towards getting our kids on the healthy food wagon.