Finding healthy food for children while driving

I'm so tired of hotels and resorts promoting children eat free programs are limited to traditional children's menus. Do we want to encourage children to eat a steady diet of macaroni and cheese, chicken fingers, hot dogs and fries? Why children, once they're in kindergarten, does not even want that? No children I know who love sushi and steaks. Their parents do not either.

Kim Orlando, who oversees Mom.com Travel said in a recent travel and holiday meal Twitter "was the No. 1 complaint menus for bored kids, unhealthy and predictable" … chicken fingers just do not cut it anymore. "

We all know that the statistics of childhood obesity sad: 1 in 3 children is overweight or obese. But if a child is overweight or not, is certainly not healthy to eat a regular diet of fried foods and fat-laden holiday.

First Lady Michelle Obama would certainly agree. She has made the fight against childhood obesity central to their campaign with a highly publicized organic garden and petitions to the families to eat healthier (www.letsmove.gov).

Restorative Maine Jonas Werner has his children to thank you aha moment on the subject. Werner, owner of the Freeport, Maine., Azure Cafe realized his two sons were popping their noses at the traditional menu of their children ", while he and his wife wanted to explore more food.

Reduction As a result, Café Blue is now offering smaller portions (at a reduced price) of almost everything on the menu – filet mignon calamari and salmon in Scotland. Freeport, a tourist town, is the hometown of LL Bean and attracts almost as many visitors as other major attractions of Maine, Acadia National Park.

Werner's philosophy has earned many local supporters, including friends of the children who come to about half the size of squid salad with pistachios and candied strawberry vinaigrette. "If you can get kids when they are young will affect the other children around them and their parents," he says.

Let's hope so. Even the theme parks – the traditional stronghold of unhealthy eating – are beginning to reconsider their offer. Robert Eti, executive chef of Legoland Florida, scheduled to open in Orlando this fall, has created a program of the farm to the table you purchase Legoland and kitchen with products grown and delivered from local farms. As a result, you add salads, wraps and fresh fruit to menus of their children. "

Close to Downtown Disney, kids eat instead of Wolfgang Puck Cafe can choose California rolls made with ham and cheese, while Portobello's Italian restaurant offers wheat cheese pizza.

And in California, Loews Coronado Bay Hotel has launched an "Adopt-A-tomato" dinner menu in the restaurant Mistral Interactive not only provides a healthier diet – beef tenderloin that small and cottage cheese with peaches local – it also shows children the impact their food choices on the environment. At the bottom of the menu of the children are asked to write their "commitments green" and are given seeds to grow tomatoes in the country.

Kid-sized catering prices may feel compelled to offer a traditional kids' menu. "" People expected, "says Werner. But why not also offer smaller portions for smaller prices? Werner said it costs you more to do. Selecting the Hyatt, children can order half portions at half price, but it is an initiative of the brand around, a spokesman said, nor is it widespread.

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Cafe Spiaggia in Chicago offers children potato gnocchi with fresh tomato sauce, while the children eat in the cabin of bingo in Beaver Creek, Colorado are treated to skillet salmon, among other options. The restaurant at the Four Seasons ART Hotel Seattle offers mini pita pockets with grilled chicken and hummus and veggie burger in their children's menu, which comes with a special activity book created by a local author is a lost puppy searching the city for its owner.

The iconic Breakers Palm Beach resort, children's menus in the restaurants of the resort offer seared mahi mahi with fried sweet potato sticks, steamed fish with broccoli and organic crystal pineapple baked rice chicken parmesan. Why are more the exception than the rule – and more generally in luxury hotels and restaurants?

And if you think your children will not touch this material, give it a try. The trip is about new experiences, expanding horizons – and what better way than through food. "Of course we want to encourage families to children try something else," says Werner. "Our goal is to love cooking -. Although it is something that has never had before,"

Just last week, I asked a couple of 12 years of age, children who visit us from within New York City, neighborhoods, courtesy of the Fresh Air Fund, a sample of New England Clam Chowder, cakes crab and oysters fresh in the latitude of 41 years, a restaurant in Mystic Seaport. We were in New England, after all.

Trying something new chowder (they even find it in the children's menus at the Omni Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire) and the crab cakes were a success, the oysters are not. However, we congratulate the guys for their willingness to try something new, and congratulations to the restaurant to stop showing small portions.

I wish more restaurants and hotels that give children the opportunity, without forcing parents to pay full freight. (That's why cruise ships can be a good option for families who want to expand the culinary repertoire of their children.)

Werner, meanwhile, knows what he is doing is not only good for families, but a good deal. "Parents are happier and the children are happier," he says. "And, hopefully, making customers change."

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