Share your top tips for getting the whole family to embrace a healthier lifestyle with Disney’s #HealthilyEverAfter campaign - £300 Disney store voucher to be won- NOW CLOSED

[RebeccaEMumsnet]

As part of the Disney Healthy Living campaign, this week Disney are launching their new #HealthilyEverAfter week. They’d love to hear about what your top tips are for encouraging your family to embrace a healthy lifestyle.

Here’s what Disney says “We know parents can find it a challenge to ensure their children are eating well and being active - and when they are trying to get their whole family to develop good habits, we believe Disney can help make it fun and simple. The #HealthilyEverAfter campaign uses the power of our stories and characters to inspire these behaviours and encourage parents to share their tips with other families around the UK”

So, how do you encourage your family to embrace a healthier lifestyle? Maybe you’ve created some fun games to get your DCs to keep active? Or perhaps you try to make sure your children are getting a balanced diet and try new foods? Whatever you do to encourage your family to be healthy Disney would love to hear about it.

For more information on the Disney Healthily Ever After campaign and how can you use Disney as inspiration to encourage your family to be healthy, take a look at the video below:

Please note: Disney may well use your anonymous comments on their website, on social media as well as possibly elsewhere.

Everyone who adds a comment will be entered in to a prize draw where one winner will receive a £300 Disney Store voucher.

Thanks & good luck,
MNHQ

We have one meal a week that is a treat and they can pick whatever they want - as a reward for being good the rest of the week

We embrace swimming and the great outdoors on most weekends

Walk a lot, don't eat rubbish, encourage active hobbies eg swimming, cycling. Dance around the lounge to let it go every day

cooking together and doing sport activities where we can compete

Make it fun! Hula hooping and trampolining are fun and great exercise. Make plates of veggies look colourful and make faces out of them for the kids.

Ban everyone from using the exercise bike to hang clothes to dry

Start small and make it easy. Cook a mixture of wholemeal and white pasta or rice. Have the fruit already washed and ready to eat, set within easy reach. Don't keep sugary drinks and treats in the house.

always have lots of fruit in bowl, serve up lots of different coloured veg and salad with meals, go on long walks with our dog or a nice bike ride. grow our own veg in back garden nice to eat own grown stuff.

Every Sunday we go for a walk / bike ride. We also try to model a good attitude to exercise. The kids see us going out for runs all the time.
And I get them to help me cook healthy soups and vegetable based dishes.
We have a 'you have to try something new 3 times' rule.

I have an app on my phone that shuts down the internet to my kids devices so they can't spend too much time on them, I also encourage them to walk the dog, which they actually do enjoy and luckily they all seem to like fruit

we go on long walks at the beach, in summer turn our garden into an assault course, and time who can do it fastest, start at trampoline round the shed across the grass using household items as props

we make healthy food fun by making faces out of vegetables. I bake with my son which he really enjoys. We also go for family bike rides and walks together.

Every vegetable in our house does something...
Carrots help you see in the dark.
Broccoli makes you grow big like a tree.
Peas make you run fast.
The list goes on. My DS is convinced Usain Bolt eats peas for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

Plan lots of fun walks, trips to the park, swimming etc. Lots of activities to burn off their energy. Mine also love fruit salads which is a bonus.

Have to make it fun for them, and set a good example

Encouragement of fun exercise-karate, surfing, golf for example.As parents we participate in sports which shows DC good habits too.
Lots of open discussion around food and healthy lifestyles, particularly counteracting and challenging some of the nonsense advice that comes from schools or the change4life programme.

Getting the children to help prepare meals really helps them to understand what goes into their food. We discuss the benefits of eating a variety of foods and they enjoy trying new things.

We try to eat more salad with dinner and fruit smoothies in the morning, alternative to Tea/Coffee also just encourage each other to eat healthy as a family.

Walk whenever possible - it really is not necessary to jump in the car for every little trip

Get outdoors as much as possible - to the park, the woods, in the garden...

Be honest about food - sweets / chocolate is fine for a treat but not all the time. We talk about how 'teeth don't like sugar', 'veg makes you big & strong' etc.

Limit screen time; there are far better things to be doing!

We take the dog out in the woods, go Swimming, walk everywhere an eat healthily

We have invested in bikes for the whole family and when weather permitting we go and ride together from villages to another. My daughter goes sometimes running with her dad and I practise yoga at home so sometimes she joins me too!

I'm in charge of our weekly food shopping, planning and cooking all the meals. There is no processed food at all in the house and take-away meals are for special occasions only! By cooking from scratch I can have a better control on the nutritional value of the ingredients & make sure that every meal is balanced. For special treats like cakes or cookies I bake them too and we tend to make our own popcorn too!

When I'm trying to introduce a new healthy food I try to cook it with my daughter -she's much more open to tasting something she's helped cook. Eg, she hated butternut squash, until I let her help me scrape out all the seeds / pour over olive oil and add the salt and pepper. I then told her to watch it in the oven - and set the alarm to go off. She was all excited serving it to her daddy saying she'd cooked it and how delicious it was!

Also, I grew up in the countryside, while my DD is growing up in a city; So I want to make sure that every couple of weeks (or more often if we can) we get out to nature. Forest walks/ visiting farms/ parks etc. I teach her the names of the flowers / trees / birds etc. I think getting fresh air and time away from all the technology and screens is so beneficial.

Even cutting fruit & veg in to different shapes can sometimes help, always make it look good and have fun at meal times.

My DC think that dried apricots are sweets :)

We do swimming and spend a lot of time in the park but the main one is letting them help me cook - they eat loads of anything that they made.