Share the ways you get vitamins & minerals into your children with Noluma

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We all know that vitamins and minerals are vital to the human body and help us grow, see properly, help make bones, muscles and organs stay healthy. However the difficult part is ensuring that you and your children have all the right vitamins and minerals in your system...especially with vitamin D, as we live in a fairly sun-deprived country . Therefore Noluma would love to know all the ways you ensure your children are getting all the vitamins and minerals they need.

Here’s what Noluma, the authority in light protection of packaging, has to say: “Scientific research shows that packaged goods can be negatively impacted when exposed to indoor lights such as retail lighting or LED lights in the kitchen. This causes the quality, freshness, flavour and more importantly, nutritional qualities to deteriorate. So if you think you are giving your children a glass of milk and getting those valuable nutrients into them this way, you might want to think again! Unless the milk bottle or carton comes in light protected packaging, chances are the product has degraded before it reaches the ‘use by’ date. This is especially true of see-through glass bottles. Here at Noluma, we are the only authority in light protection technology that certifies packaging using our patented state-of-the-art assessment process. We are uniquely able to measure all types of packaging for its ability to protect against damage due to both natural and artificial light, and to stop content change due to light exposure. Visit lightdamageisreal.co.uk to find out more”

Do you sneak vitamins filled fruit and veg into their meals? If so do you have any recipes or techniques you could share? Or maybe you don’t need to and your children are very good at eating lots of fruit and vegetables? Perhaps you like to make sure they’re outdoors as much as possible so they’re getting lots of great sunlight? Or maybe you know of some child-friendly vitamin supplements that help your children get all the nutrients they need?

Whatever your tips and tricks are for getting vitamins and minerals into your children, share them on the thread below and everyone who does will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

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Added vitamins is a myth in my opinion.A well balanced diet will give your child the best start in life.

we eat vegetables with every meal, eat fruit as snacks and i also give my lil boy a chewy multi vitamin everyday! He loves them as they look and taste like sweets!

I would always chop up a lot of different coloured fruit & vegetables such as kiwis, strawberries, carrot batons, cucumber sticks and make a game of who could make the best picture on a plate with them. It inevitably led to some being eaten as they played.

Lots of fresh fruit and veggies in bolognese

I make a vegetable fondue to make it fun!

For me its three things, plenty of sunlight exposure for VitD, he has a vitamin in his milk each evening and i sneak chopped up veg into meals like spag bol.

lots of fruit and veg and getting them to help with prepping meals gets them really interested in trying a wider variety.

We've always tried to eat a good balanced diet with a variety of fruit, veg and proteins. Plus, we regularly get outside. I have never given my son any sort of multi vitamins and he hasn't had any sort of issues with vitamin deficiency.

sneak in fruit and veg into everything

Im very lucky as my little ome loves his fruit, he doesn't love all vegetables but theres definitely a few he does like so i use the same vegies for meals sometimes i try put a new one on his plate to see if he will eat it but no loss or stress if he doesnt!
All the kids i know love smoothies so if i struggled id start off by making smoothies to get those vitamins in

Get them growing - anything they've grown themselves is instantly yummy

A balanced diet, so lots of fruit, veg and fish etc. They eat what they're given because they know thats all they get. I cant be doing with fussiness for the sake of being fussy, I get if they really don't like one or two things but not everything.

Luckily our DD is very un-fussy with food and will eat pretty much anything and so providing a balanced diet is pretty easy. I've never known a child be so happy to choose a fruit or vegetable over a sweet. She much prefers a celery stick over a liquorice stick!

A varied diet with lots of fresh fruit and vegetables

My girls tell me that all vegetables taste like dirt so either I'm a lousy cook or they are really picky but I admit to giving my two fish oils with added vitamins. They do like fruit which I find they took into if I prepare it and put in the fridge in containers, lazy lot!

PLENTY OF Variety in the diet, eat a rainbow, as well as fresh air an dexercise

I let them eat fruit whenever and try to have some veg with each evening meal or have things like carrot sticks and peppers with houmous for snacks. Never given them vitamin drops/tablets.

Buying vitamin D supplement drops
Getting out in the sun
Also trying to get the following goods in their diet

Oily fish – salmon, sardines or mackerel
Broccoli
Sweet potatoes or carrots
Strawberries or kiwi fruit
Fortified milk, margarine or breakfast cereal

Home made tomato sauce with pasta. I pack loads of vegetables into the sauce, especially the green 'urgh' vegetables! I also makes lots of smoothies and turn these into lollies which the kids love.

Fruit and vegetables with every meal :)

we all eat a balance diet with plenty of fruit and veg - we also have smoothies as a treat

thankfully my son loves fruit. Veg not so much but we always encourage him to try a bit of everything, he's pretty good.

Pleanty of fresh air, a multivitamin and lots of fresh air.

Fruit, veg, sunshine and buy multivitamins but no-one ever takes them!

They have a vitamin with the breakfast and we give them healthy packed lunches