Finding healthy food for the children while traveling

I am so tired of hotels and resorts in touting the kids-eat-free programs be limited to traditional kids menus. Do we want to encourage children to eat a steady diet mac and cheese, chicken fingers, hot dogs and fries? Do you have children, when they are in kindergarten, even if do not want it? No children I know who love sushi and steak. Parents do not either.

Kim Orlando, which monitors the Traveling Mom.com said recently on Twitter Travel & Food Party, 'No. 1 gripe was boring, unhealthy, and to predict children's menus … chicken fingers just do not cut it anymore. "

We all know the grim statistics on childhood obesity: 1 3 children are overweight or obese. But whether the child is overweight or not, it certainly is not healthy to eat even a diet and fat-laden fried foods on holiday.

First Lady Michelle Obama will agree. He has made the fight against childhood obesity in his central campaign, which has a lot of publicity for organic gardening and grounds for families to eat healthier (www.letsmove.gov).

Maine restaurateur Jonas Werner has received for his children to thank her at the time of the AHA. Werner, owner of Freeport, Me., Azure Cafe understood his two children were turning up their noses in his classic children's menus at the same time, he and his wife wanted to explore more of their food.

As a result, reducing the Azure Cafe is now offering smaller portions (at a reduced price), and almost all of the menu – the Calamari, and Bacon, Scottish salmon. Freeport, the tourist city, the hometown of LL Bean, and it attracts almost as many visitors as the other top attraction Maine, Acadia National Park.

Werner philosophy has won him a local following in her children's friends who come and half the size of the order or the Calamari salad with caramelized pistachios and strawberry vinaigrette. "If you have children when they are young, they seem to be other children around them and their parents," he says.

Let's hope so. Even the theme parks – the traditional bastion of unhealthy eating – have begun to re-supply. Eti, Robert, executive chef at Legoland, and Florida, scheduled to open in Orlando this fall, has created a state-to-table program, with Legoland and chefs to buy produce grown and delivered from local farms. As a result, he added salads, wraps and fresh fruit for his children's menus.

Nearby is Downtown Disney, Kids chowing down on Wolfgang Puck Cafe choose the California rolls made with ham and cheese, while the Italian restaurant, Portobello offers a whole-wheat cheese pizza.

And in California, at Loews Coronado Bay has launched a "give-a-tomato," an interactive dinner in the Mistral restaurant, which offers not only healthier food – think of a petite tenderloin of beef and cheese, fresh local peaches – but also shows the children the impact of their food choices have on the environment. At the bottom of the menu are asked to sign a 'green commitment', and give the seeds to grow tomatoes at home.

Maybe the kid-sized prices forced restaurateurs to offer a traditional kids' menu. "People expect it," Werner says. But why not also offer smaller portions for smaller prices? Werner said that it will not cost him more to do so. Select at the Hyatt Hotels, the children may order half-portions at half price, but it's not quite wide initiative, a spokesman said, and it is commonly known.

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Cafe Spiaggia in Chicago, offers kids the potato gnocchi with fresh tomato sauce, while the kids eat at Beano lodging in Beaver Creek, Colorado deals with pan seared salmon among other choices. ART Restaurant at Four Seasons Hotel Seattle offers a mini pita pockets with hummus and grilled chicken and vegetarian burger to a children's menu that will be a special activity book created by local writers of all lost puppy looking for its owner in the city.

The famous Breakers Palm Beach Resort, children's menus at Resort restaurants offer seared mahi mahi with sweet potato sticks, pineapple glazed fish with steamed organic broccoli, brown rice and baked chicken parmigiana. Why is this the exception rather than the rule – and typically upscale hotels and places to eat?

And if you think your child does not apply to such things, give it a try. Travel is about new experiences, to broaden horizons – and what better way to do that than through food. "Definitely we want to encourage families to let kids try something else," says Werner. "Our goal is to cook the food, people will love – even if it is something they've never had before."

Just last weekend, I called a couple of 12 years of age for boys to New York's downtown neighborhoods, courtesy of the Fresh Air Fund, in order to sample New England clam chowder, crab cakes, fresh oysters, and even the width 41, a restaurant in Mystic Seaport. We were in New England after all.

To try something new chowder (you'll even find it in the children's menus at Mount Washington Hotel New Hampshire) and the crab cakes were a hit, not so much for oysters. But we congratulated the boys for their willingness to try something new, and the Glory restaurant letting them displayed in small doses.

I wish more restaurants and hotels would give children the opportunity to force parents to pay full freight. (This is why so cruises can be a good bet for families who want to expand the children's culinary repertoire.)

Werner in turn, knows what he is doing is not only good for families but good for business. "Parents are happier and the kids are happier," he says. "And hopefully it will make a return to the customers."

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