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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[cathryn1]

WE love to make funny faces with fruit and veg its the only way we can get her to eat any

[jandoc]

We try to make it a family event and show that the adults are taking them too

[lorrainej162]

Lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. Let them choose their own choice for fresh smoothies and soups.

[maria08k]

Ronan takes a supplement, a soft chewy vitamin once a day.

[vixxx666]

The kids help me prepare food in the kitchen and encourage them to taste everything. We use all sorts of fruit and vegetables and they enjoy eating them.

[addverbaan]

My son has always loved his veg so no real problem there - lots of fresh veg and fruit every day :)

[Smellophant87]

I feed them a balanced diet with lots of fresh fruit and veg. I give the toddler follow-on milk too.

[Emmamaryd]

Chopping up veg in pasta sauce, healthy fruit snacks etc.

[xxxxclarexxxx]

My son likes most fruit and vegetables and will gladly sit and eat red pepper or carrot sticks and hummus just for a snack! we have vegetables in every meals only thing he hates is mushrooms though! He will pick them out! I used to sneak vegetables into his diet by chopping them really small! but he will eat most now - his fav are sweetcorn, sweet potato and brocolli - I have given him multi vitamins in the past but he eats most things now so dont think he needs extra supplements! x

[hannahlw85]

I feed them a balanced diet, try to encourage snacking on fruit and veg, we all take a multivits, and I take them out to play pretty much each day

[Flickabella81]

I blend vegetables to make sauces for meals! Lots of fruit in desserts and smoothies as treats!

[lucyrobinson]

I always offer fresh fruit and veg daily. I offer vitamins that are chewy.

[clarabella12]

lots of fruit and veg! I'm lucky the all enjoy it.

[phillw]

Add grated vegetables to bolognese sauces

[CatCatDog]

I hide vegetables in home made tomato sauce which I use to make pasta dishes and pizza!

[Jocelynne123]

I've always called them her nightly sweeties and I get a nice tasting chewable multivitamin. But we eat a lot of fruit and veg in this family and because she's always are them she loves fruit and veg. Guess we were lucky xx

[farhanac]

Try to give them a balanced and varied diet that includes their vitamin needs

[Bellroyd]

I don't stock the cupboards with rubbish, nutritionally barren products. Good wholseome whole-cooked foods with plenty of fruit and veg

[grannybiker]

Fortified breakfast cereals, raw carrot, tomato or cucumber to add colour to their plate and constant access to fresh fruit.

[MadCatLadypuss]

We have a varied diet and a multi vitamin if its a particularly busy time.

[kkhimji]

add them in fruit

[rhinosuze]

A disolvable multi vitamin and plenty of fruit and veg as snacks

[kelliec]

I try to steam food where possible to retain as many nutrients as possible and the gummy/chewy type multivitamins are good.

[alem17]

Healthy diet and daily multivitamin

[DonPablo]

We have a normal, healthy ish diet. As vegetarians we know we need to top up with B12 in particular. So we have a lazy Susan with a variety of vitamins on that a tea time we all take. The smallest has a kids chewable and the eldest has our vitamins now.

Because they're where we eat, much easier to rememeber.