Finding healthy meals for children while traveling

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. Not his parents either.

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

We all know 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 to his central campaign with a highly publicized organic gardening and requests for families to eat healthier (www.letsmove.gov).

Restorative Maine Werner Jonas has his children to thank their aha moment on the subject. Werner, owner of 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 Azul now offers smaller portions (at a reduced price) of almost everything on the menu – calamari filet mignon 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 have children when they are young will influence 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 farm to table that Legoland buy and cook with produce 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, the children instead of eating Wolfgang Puck Cafe California rolls made can choose ham and cheese, while the Italian restaurant offers Portobello wheat cheese pizza.

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

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

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Cafe Spiaggia in Chicago provides children with potato gnocchi with fresh tomato sauce, while the children eat in the cabin bingo Beaver Creek, Colorado are treated to the 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, the children's menus in the restaurants of the resort offer seared mahi mahi with fried potato sticks, steamed fish with broccoli and organic crystal pineapple rice baked 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 cook foods -. Although love is something that has never had before"

Just last week I ordered a pair of 12-year-old children who visit us from within the 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 the 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, what makes customers return."

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