Reasons to Prepare Home-Cooked Organic Meals for Your Child

As a parent, you naturally want your child to remain healthy and strong. You can help them achieve and maintain good health by encouraging them to exercise, letting them get enough sleep, and by providing them with well-balanced meals. At Early Steps Bilingual Preschool, our goals align with yours – we want to take care of your child too which is why we encourage home-cooked organic meals in our preschool in Virginia. Aside from the health benefits that it can bring for your child, here are other benefits of home-cooked organic meals that you should keep in mind:

• It can help you save money. Pre-packaged and prepared meals will cost you significantly more than cooking with raw ingredients in your home. Preparing home-cooked organic meals can definitely help you save some money. Other ways to save money include: using store coupons and buying your food in bulk.
• It can help you prepare nutritious and well-balanced meals. Preparing your child’s home-cooked organic meal doesn’t just help you save money, but it also provides you with the opportunity to create meals with a balance of fat, protein, carbohydrates, and including all of the minerals and vitamins that your child needs. You may even consult with your child’s pediatrician so that you can better prepare meals that are suited to their personal tastes and nutritional requirements.
• It can help you choose the quality of the food that you prepare and eat. If you order at a restaurant, you will receive the quality that the chef prepares for you. The same thing goes for buying a pre-packaged meal – you have no control over the quality of the food that you and your child eats. However, when you cook at home, you can choose the quality of the food that you prepare and eat. You can even choose to buy organic products, reduce the amount of preservatives, and make any other ingredient choices that you want.
• It can provide your child with the opportunity to choose their own meals. Is your child a picky eater? By preparing home-cooked organic meals, your child can get involved in the meal planning process, thus, helping them pick out food that they would actually want to eat. Of course, you can still veto their food choices (e.g. if they end up picking unhealthy food) and encourage them to choose healthier food instead.

Part of our high-quality early childhood education program is making sure that your child is able to eat well-balanced, delicious, and nutritious meals as well. In our preschool, we offer healthy food choices and we highly encourage parents to prepare home-cooked organic meals. Do you have any suggestions for us? Please Contact Us now.