@healthy.mom.healthy.kids: #ad @California Strawberries Back-to-school lunch packing tip: include something unfamiliar or less-preferred right alongside a food you already know your child likes. For my three (and many of my patients too), strawberries have always been the anchor. Fifteen years of packed lunches and they've never come home uneaten. The familiar food takes the pressure off, so the whole lunch isn't riding on the new thing, and that's usually what makes the difference between a kid who's willing to poke at something and a kid who isn't. Repetition is key. Some kids need 15-20 exposures before they'll give it a taste, and if every exposure comes with tension, it’s counterproductive. That’s why I jumped at the chance to partner with California Strawberries and talk about why California-grown strawberries work so well in a lunchbox: they're naturally sweet and easily accepted. Prep is basically nothing: just wash, slice, and go. They bring fiber, vitamin C, antioxidants, and more to a long school day, and researchers continue to look at how strawberries may support heart, brain, gut, and metabolic health. Fresh or frozen, conventional and organic, they all count toward a nutritious eating pattern. Plus, it's peak season right now! California's family farms grow about 90% of the strawberries in the U.S. I got to visit one last spring and saw firsthand how they follow the most rigorous farming and food-safety practices in the country, and how the farmers raise their own kids in the same communities where they grow their crops. The strawberries they grow for us are the same ones they pack in their own children's lunches. Whatever your child's anchor food is, pack it this week with something new next to it, and let me know how it goes! (Ours will be fresh, California-grown strawberries 🍓) Want to learn more? Link in bio: California Strawberries: Grown for Our Families—and Yours

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