We all know it’s important to eat plenty of fruit and veggies, but sometimes kids are not so keen. I find checklists and charts can be really motivating for my kids, so today I’m sharing with you a printable fruit and veggie journal that you can stick up onto the wall and let them check off each portion of fruit and veg per day.
Sometimes that extra incentive of completing another tick on their chart can really get kids reaching for the carrot sticks!
You can download this free printable fruit and veg tracker page at the end of this blog post.
Printable Fruit & Veg Tracker
The fruit and vegetable tracker page is a super easy way to keep an eye on veggie intake. The sheet covers one week and has five apples for each day of the week for your kiddies to check off.
You can also use stickers and place a sticker on an apple for each fruit or veg portion eaten each day.
There is also space to note down new fruits or vegetables you’re hoping to try this week and to make notes.
This free printable healthy eating tracker can be used with kids of all ages, from toddlers to preschoolers or picky eaters who are already at school.
If you want to keep an eye on water intake too, then combine this tracker with our free printable water tracker over at our women’s lifestyle site, On Your Journey – this one is suitable for all ages too!
By starting all of these good habits in childhood, it makes it much easier for our kids to continue with this as they grow up and eating well and drinking plenty of water will just become second nature.
Easy Ways to Encourage Eating Fruit and Vegetables
To help meet your targets why not try some of the simple tips:
- Hide veggies in food for picky eaters
- Put fruit in your cereal or oatmeal
- Try using a coleslaw recipe to make a side for Burger Night. The kids will never realise they are eating cabbage!
- Add veggies to pasta
- Add veggies to an omelette
- Use a juicer to drink your fruit
- Freeze grapes as a cool snack
- Make a smoothie
- Stir extra vegetables into soup
Juicing is another quick and easy way to get kids to increase their fruit intake, or you could grow your own veggies with the kids at home to get them more invested in the whole process and keen to eat more vegetables.
Check out this list of ten easy veggies to grow with kids for ideas.
It’s okay to let kids be playful with their food! See why ‘playing with your food’ can sometimes be a good thing.
Download Kids Fruit and Veg Tracker PDF
Click below to download this file in PDF format to print out at home
Terms of use: free for personal use
Print out a few copies and let them track their progress week by week, or print one and laminate to use again and again with dry wipe marker pens.
More Ways to Make Healthy Eating Fun
Try some of these fun recipe and snack ideas to keep kids on the right track with healthy eating.
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Because you need your exercise along with your fruit and veggies! Kids will love these fun ideas
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Love this, its a fun way of encouraging to eat their greens!