5 Steps to a Healthier Lifestyle

Help set a great example for your kids by following these simple 5 steps!

1. Keep fresh fruit in a bowl within your child's reach to grab as a quick snack.
2. Take a walk with your family after dinner.
3. Plan a menu for the week and get your kids involved with planning and cooking.
4. Turn off the tv during meals and have family time.
5. Talk to the principal about organizing a school health team.

Easy right?

For more tips, visit www.letsmove.gov.

Until next time,
Jane Marie

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Fun Fruit Kabobs Recipe

Mmm mmm! This recipe is so fun to make and tastes great!

Fun Fruit Kabobs

Ingredients:

• 1 apple
• 1 banana
• 1/3 cup red seedless grapes
• 1/3 cup green seedless grapes
• 2/3 cup pineapple chunks
• 1 cup nonfat yogurt
• 1/4 cup dried cocunut, shredded

Utensils:

• knife (you will need help from an adult)
• 2 wooden skewer sticks
• large plate

Directions:

1. Prepare the fruit by washing the grapes, washing the apples and cutting them into small squares, peeling the bananas and cutting them into chunks, and cutting the pineapple into chunks, if it's fresh. Put the fruit onto a large plate.

2. Spread coconut onto another large plate.

3. Slide pieces of fruit onto the skewer and design your own kabob by putting as much or as little fruit you want! Do this until the stick is almost covered from end to end

4. Hold your kabob at the ends and roll it in the yogurt, so the fruit gets covered. Then roll it in the coconut.

Serves: 4

P.S. You don't have to use coconut. Try your favorite granola, nuts, or raisins.

Reviewed by: Allison Brinkley, RD, LD/N

Credit: www.kidshealth.org