Healthy habits begin at home! Incorporate nutritious eating into your family’s day by making healthy eating easy, accessible, and fun.

Start thinking about incorporating colors into your child’s diet – red, blue, green, yellow, and orange

• Include your child in the menu planning, food shopping, and cooking
• Send a rainbow of locally grown foods in your child’s lunchbox
• Make food fun! Arrange fresh fruit on a skewer, create funny faces with assorted fruits and veggies, or use toothpicks to create food pyramids
• Participate in Produce Mom, an initiative to get kids cooking wholesome family meals on a regular basis. Learn more at www.theproducemom.com
• Shop for local fruits and vegetables that are in season to enjoy peak flavor and lower prices
• Display locally grown vegetables and fruits so they are within easy reach for kids
• Purchase at least one Ventura County grown produce item from each color of the rainbow each week
• Serve fresh fruit as dessert
• Prepare a weekly rainbow dinner, with locally grown produce from every color of the food rainbow
• Grow a vegetable garden with your child and include them in the planting, harvesting, and eating
• Take a trip to the farmers market with your child and bring along their passport to complete the activities

Activities To Do At Home