Delicious, Healthy, and Easy: Food Options For Parents with Picky Eaters

When your schedule is already packed full of work, weekly appointments, and other errands, finding the time to whip up delicious, healthy meals at home may feel like a challenge. Add kids into the mix (who bat away anything green or have a meltdown when asked to try something new) an evening on “easy street” may feel like it is only found on a map. If you’re a parent struggling to find healthier options for dinner, but still need meals that your kids will eat, you’re in luck.

Picky Eaters: The Struggle Is Real

Kids who are picky eaters are not a new struggle for today’s parents, but the struggle is still very much real. Parents may try to adapt daily meals around kids who only consume a limited variety of foods, require foods prepared in certain ways, have a strong dislike for certain foods, throw temper tantrums when they do not get the food they want, and more. After a long day in the office or running around all day, whipping up both healthy and delicious options that your kids will eat may seem daunting, but don’t worry… help is on the way.

Meeting The Needs Of Today’s Families

Today’s food industry is finding innovative ways to meet the needs of the 21st-Century picky eater while still meeting their demands for tasty options. Desperate times don’t have to call for desperate measures, as companies like Natural Heaven are ready to help you bring healthy and delicious goodies to your table.

Natural Heaven is a pasta brand by Ecuador’s Pronaca, which is known for its innovation in sustainability and high-quality products. The brand’s pasta is actually made from hearts of palm, a delicious vegetable. These are the inner cores of certain palm trees, and when they are processed right, they turn out to be quite delicious and remarkably similar to pasta. This opens parents' cooking nights to endless pasta-bilities. From spaghetti and angel hair dishes to a range of rice recipes, you don’t have to give up healthy eating for taste (and vice versa). For the nights that you need a quick meal, or for those needing an easy, delicious option to pack for their kid’s lunch, Natural Heaven’s ready-to-eat Mac N’ Cheese can be made in literally one minute.

But here’s the beauty of hearts of palm: it doesn’t feel like introducing a new food into the recipe book. It is like giving your selective eaters the pasta dishes they love while also upgrading their nutrition. Plus, you may find your kids have more sustained energy during the school days, as the fiber content in hearts of palm (2 grams per serving) means they are not crashing hard after lunch.

Good For You, Your Kids, And The Environment

As many individuals shift more toward sustainable living practices, companies with environmentally friendly practices have begun to attract more attention. Pronaca has been growing hearts of palm sustainably for over 30 years, with every part of their hearts of palm turned into something useful. Additionally, when the company harvests a palm stem, it actually grows back, and they purify all water used and return it to the rivers. So, eating Natural Heaven can be good for you, your kids, and certainly the planet.

Plates with cartoon characters. Light up silverware. Stickers on water bottles. There are various ways to jazz up the lunch and dinner experience, but what matters is that kids are eating healthy and enjoying what they eat. With Natural Heaven’s recipe collection and line of delicious products, dinner time can be an enjoyable experience where families can feel happy, healthy, and full.

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