Weight Management

Read tips for serving your family smaller food portions, and help your child practice healthy eating by self-serving food at the next meal.

Learn quick ways to estimate appropriate portion sizes for common foods, and help your child practice measuring and comparing portions of cereal.

Read tips for creating a quick breakfast your family can eat on the go, and make breakfast fun by inviting your family on a breakfast picnic.

Check out breakfast foods that your child can help make, and work together with your child to build a fruit and yogurt parfait.

Learn why it’s important to stop eating when you are full, and teach your child about “full” and “empty” using bowls of water.

Find out how to help your child recognize what feeling full is like, and encourage your child to practice “full” by filling a plastic bag with flour or cornstarch.

Read tips to help your child drink enough water every day, and help your child keep track of water drinking with a simple chart.

Learn about the five food groups that make up MyPlate, and help your child learn the groups by coloring in sections of a paper plate.