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:

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I get them involved in choosing and making healthy meals from a young age. Even our 1 year old can pick fruit and help make little pizzas, veggie soups etc. We also get outdoors to play as much as we can, and play lots of games whilst we're walking places to help keep it entertaining.

First, we look at recipes together (I hand pick the healthy meals) then he chooses which one to cook.I then get my son involved in the shopping, preparing and cooking meals. If he has chosen the ingredients, he is more likely to eat the meals!

fun days out can involve exercise. A zoo, the park or other attractions are great walking days for exercise. More active activities like climbing parks or ziplining are great exercise too - stealth exercise if you like because they just seem like a fun activity but really are a work out.

creativity with foods helps the diet be more healthy. Homemade pizza gets the veggies in them (the boys love adding 'the colours'). You could even make the dough more healthy with wholemeal four - they won't know the difference.

Fizzy and sugary drinks are a problem. The boys never want water when we are out. So I carry a littly squeezy bottle of vimto (other varieties are available but the boys love vimto over Robinsons and the others). It fits handily in the pocket/bag but turns a bottle of water into a child-friendly drink without the added sugar.

I try and make sure we all eat healthily and all eat together where possible. I'm too lazy to get into doing different meals for different people anyway (except on rare occasions when we're not eating together) so my daughter eats what we do - I realise we're lucky that logistics allows us to do this.

I'm trying to get out walking more while I'm on maternity leave, and encouraging the rest of the family to do that too. Scooting is a great favourite so if we can drag ourselves off the sofa at the weekend it's a good way to encourage my daughter out of the house.

I like to pre-cut carrots, apple and bananas and pop them into re-sealable bags. Then when I take my stepson on a walk to the park, I can just grab them and go :)

We turn everything into a game...who can eat the most veg, who can run the farthest, who can kick the ball hardest etc. My boys enjoy the competition element.
I feel that it is important that as parents that we set the precedent. Children learn so much from our actions.

Do various activities - long walks and more competitive sports! Even a dance off at home. Also keep food healthy but balanced - keep treats occasional but don't express that food is good or bad for you, explain the benefits of them

Lots of park trips at the weekend. Walk or scooter to school is the normal, so they don't question it.

School talk about healthy living from reception, so we build on that with regards activities and diet.

Fruit has always been the usual after a meal, and I limit "puddings" to a weekend, after realising we were having them daily. We also drink water with meals unless it is a treat day - a birthday or Christmas day. I made the changes sneakily, so they are just part of the normal rather than a new "We must do X from now."

How do i get them to try new food - I introduce, they look at me as if I have three heads; friend, or favourite teacher then likes or recommends same food and they want it forever. Humph!

I generally don't push new foods on them if they aren't keen, as long as they try them, but I will play around with how I serve them. Mine will eat the contents of Nachoes individually, but not if I pile it all up. Similarly wrap and sour cream/yoghurt makes them eat most curries/chilli (albeit in a sandwich.)

Playing games to keep us fit, the wii is a bit old now but we still use the wii fit, it's not only entertaining but it becomes a competition to see who can get the best score. Oh and making sure we get together and eat fruit everyday. It's our after meal dessert, we'll cut up a few pieces of fruit and eat it while we're watching tv in the afternoon, keeps you from going for crisps and other unhealthy food.

I set up a mini sports day indoors on rainy days. Obstacle course with sofa cushions, hopping race and egg and spoon. Involving the kids in making helps too. We quite often make a mini golf course out of junk around the house.

Don't buy in the rubbish unhealthy food then it can't be eaten!

We go outdoors! Our 5 DC are aged between 2 and 14 so there's often a bit of moaning about it, especially in the winter but everyone generally feels much better after a good walk. We're lucky to live in a place with lots of lovely parks, gardens and beaches.

I love being outdoors when the weather is fine so we do this regularly.
We all do sports once or twice a week - they know it's good for them.

Getting the children to cook encourages them to think about the food they put into their body.

My eldest has been interested in looking at traffic light info on food packaging recently. He's been telling us all about it. I'm not sure if this has come from school, but I appreciate it. It's made me hold back on the cheese!

Try following the motto 'a little bit of everything does you good'.

All about balance really.

Plus, letting DC try lots of different sports - they have each found their niche.

Long walks/bike rides around the lake together :)

We love a dog walk all together. Also we eat much better since DD came along, always so much fruit in the house now which if any start to go before we eat them, get wizzed up in the nutribullet with some apple juice and chia seeds

Wasn't particularly sporty myself but am so proud we have fostered a love of sport for my eight year old. He participates in three different team Sports each week - hockey, football, cricket . Good exercise, confidence building and discipline for him - a great example to our daughter, and fresh air watching him for us.

We've just started cycling together at weekends. My eldest daughter is weak and tired all the time so it's a gradual process because she tires so easily.

Walk everywhere and everyone is involved in making meals

I just try to make things fun. I try to avoid letting DD know which foods I really want her to eat. It definitely works to some extent as she will beg me for peas the same way she does for chocolate! She isn't made to eat things she doesn't want, I think this makes her more likely to try new things. DP doesn't put need persuading as he loves exercise and is really careful to eat a healthy diet.

I make meals that taste great but are very Healthy for you even puddings, the kids and everyone in the house love them

Trying to do a lot of outdoor activities, it encourages them to be outside and they can experiment with different hobbies. I also try and cook and bake with them, it's great making your own food as you know how much sugar and salt is going in and also you don't get all the additives.

Scavenger hunts for things beginning with different letters or amounts of objects or different coloured.
Getting out for a walk even if the weathers bad. Invest in wet weather gear and wellies.
If they scoot or ride bikes we/ I have to move quite quickly to keep up so its good for us too!
Having a balanced diet and teaching them from early on that no food is off limits just that there should be more of the veg/ protein/ healthy than the sweets/ chocolate.
Involving them in making not just biscuits etc but sandwiches/ prepping vegetables.
Involving them in shopping for all types of food.

Find fun,healthy recipes,let the children get involved with the shopping for the ingredients and helping you make the food