Help me learn good habits. You are my favorite teacher!
ONE SERVING IS TIP
Let’s eat • 1/2 to 1 slice bread ortortilla • Choose whole grains for 3 of
• 4 to 5 tablespoons rice, noodles, my servings:
foods Grains or cooked cereal - Oatmeal
Teach me from the 6 servings • 1/2 to 1 cup dry cereal - Corn tortilla
about • 4 to 5 crackers -Whole grain breads and cereals
healthy Tell me how foods help me grow and make
me strong.
5 food ONE SERVING IS TIP
foods. • Grains give me energy to grow and learn.
groups • 4 to 5 tablespoons • Teach me to eat many kinds
• 1/2 cup vegetable or tomato juice and colors: dark green, orange,
• Whole grains have fiber to keep me healthy inside. for meals Vegetables red, yellow, and purple.
and 3 servings
• Vegetables and fruits help my body fight disease
and keep me looking good.
snacks: ONE SERVING IS TIPS
• Milk makes my bones and teeth strong.
• 4 to 5 tablespoons • Teach me to eat many kinds
• Meats and beans give me healthy blood and and colors: red, yellow, orange,
• 1/2 cup 100% fruit juice
strong muscles. Fruits blue, and green.
I need all these foods! Some are my WIC foods, too. 2 servings • 4 ounces of juice a day
is plenty.
Do you think I am active? I like to run, jump, and ONE SERVING IS TIPS
Teach me
climb. I need to play like this for at least one hour • 1/2 cup milk or yogurt • 16 ounces of milk a day
to stay a day. Teach me to stay active as I grow up. We can: • 1/2 to 1 slice cheese is plenty.
active. • Take walks
Milk • I can try 1% or 2% milk.
4 servings
• Do chores like sweeping or raking
• Turn on the radio and dance ONE SERVING IS TIP
• Go for a swim • 4 tablespoons meat, chicken, • Try:
turkey, or fish - Meatballs
• Go for a hike Meat • 1 egg -Meat in stew
• Play catch & Beans • 1/2 cup cooked beans or tofu - Cooked WIC beans
2 servings • 2 tablespoons peanut butter -Baked, breaded fish filet
• Play follow the leader
-Baked chicken thigh
Help me be healthy
Meal Breakfast Look • I can learn to use a dull knife to spread
Scrambled egg with cheese peanut butter. Can you show me how?
Idea Whole wheat toast what I
WIC juice can do! • I can pass foods like bread at the table.
I can say Please and Thank you and sit for
Morning Snack 20 to 30 minutes to eat.
Vanilla yogurt with crushed pineapple
• I can hop on one foot. Watch me hop like
Lunch a bunny! Hop with me.
Chicken salad
Bread • I can count. Let me count fruit when we
Carrot sticks shop. Let me count the cans of WIC juice.
Milk
• I like to tell stories. Let’s make a special story-
Afternoon Snack book. We can glue pictures on paper and tie
WIC cereal the pages together.
Banana slices
Milk
Dinner Health • Help me brush and floss my teeth every day.
Teach me to drink water when I get thirsty.
Red beans and rice and
Corn bread
Tomatoes
Safety • Take me to the doctor for my checkup.
I might need a shot at my next visit. Ask my
Green salad Tips doctor if I need a booster seat in the car.
Milk
Oatmeal raisin cookie • Teach me to wash my hands often.
• Put sunscreen on me when I play in the sun.
4 to 4 l/2 years
Let’s eat Let’s start with breakfast. We can talk about what
we will do today and what we are eating. Tell me
together. where eggs come from. Does a chicken talk?
• Teach me to eat because I am hungry, not
because I am good or feel sad. Do not use My name is _______________________________________.
food to reward me or make me obey. I weigh __________ pounds. I am __________ inches tall.
A special note for me: _______________________________
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