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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We make sure we get out and about every day to dose up on vitamin D. Fresh fruit and salad here too

We talk about being healthy and look at eating a natural rainbow as often as possible. My children know about vitamins and minerals and it’s easy to get them to eat healthy foods because they have always done so.

DS1 will pretty much eat anything so no issues with him. DS2 (asd) is a tricky customer. Hates veg so they get diced/grated into pasta sauces, cottage pies, etc. If he can see it, he will pick or spit it out. I do still put a bit of whole veg on his plate, same as everyone else but it gets left. He will have the multivitamin “sweets” (I see no reason to correct him on that!) He eats fruit - not the variety his brother eats, but f he sees something in the shops that he likes the look of I get it - if he doesn’t like it I praise him for trying something new. That’s pretty big for him!

Both boys like a fruit platter with cheese and crackers or popcorn after tea.

My daughter is vegan so I try to make sure she has a wide variety of foods eg fruit, veg, beans, tofu, nuts, grains and dairy substitutes for balance. She also has a daily multi vitamin/mineral supplement and a pro biotic supplement for gut health, as she has been on long term antibiotics for acne. Unfortunately as my daughter is a teenager, getting her outdoors for a vitamin D fix is pretty impossible!

Good food

Haven't read the full thread so apologies if I am repeating what others have said.
Our tips would be to drink lots of milk and smoothies from fresh fruit. Avoid fizzy drinks like cola and squash which has no nutritional value.
Use blended sauces in pasta/pizza/shepherds pie etc when kids are really small introducing chunky veg when they are used to the taste.
Grow veg, even if it's just cress.... .they love eating stuff they've watched grow.
Dont feel the need to fill them full of carbs, cheese and grapes is a good snack, no need for crackers which are low nutrient.
Home made "vegan" ice cream is delicious, just freeze 4 sliced bananas, add lime juice, half a tin of coconut milk and blend.

I do my best to ensure a wide, balanced and varied diet... fruit is always available and we're in the habit of having a small bowl of salad veg/ crudités prior to evening meals to get the veg count up....

My daughter is going through a fussy patch, one thing that works well for us us Milled flaxseeds or multi seed mixes sneaked in muffins or porridge.

We always have fruit and veg available for snacking and DD only drinks water never fizzy drinks. We don't have a garden so I do worry about her vitamin D levels so we walk to school and back every day and try to visit parks and forests regularly. If I remember then DD will have a children's gummy vitamin after dinner.

I bf both my babies for 12 months plus. Baby led weaning for food variety. Very limited great foods. Fresh fruit and veg as much as possible. Smoothies every morning with fruit and linseed type stuff. Daily multi vitamin from Lidl

We have a dog so plenty in sunlight here!!

And what a load of bollocks light deterioration ffs.

DC1 is fairly fussy, so it's Tesco chewy multivitamins for them. And as balanced a diet as possible.

Balanced diet, cereals, sunshine and overflowing fruit bowls!

I have always put our vegetables and salads on table to help themselves without any pressure. I make sure they have something with vitamin c if we have 'red meat so to absorb the iron. My child who's not keen on fruit eats it if it's set in sugar free jelly and is much more responsive to veg if I put a simple dressing on.

I have never really given my kids vitamins and minerals but they are outdoors a lot and get loads of sun and they like fruit and veg too (not everything) but they easily eat enough each day

Tried Vit D drops but gave up, don't worry too much about a bit of sun before suncream, plus we're vegetarian so DC get a lot of nutrients just through our regular meals as we don't often do meat substitutes. Though a 'hidden veg' pasta sauce is always a fail-safe option on a fussy day!

Balanced diets and smoothies

My girls love the haliorange fruit vitamins. They think there sweets!

My two have a childrens multivitamin. Fruit and veg included in meals, plenty of sunshine and outdoors for all that all important vitamin d

Plenty of healthy food and a daily multivitamin

A balanced diet. Lots of vegetables and fruits, but we also eat some meat and fish. We buy organic whenever possible, so as to minimise their exposure to various chemicals. We don’t use microwave oven at all as it destroys the enzyme of food being cooked. Steaming is a good way to keep nutrition. Try to be active, out in the sun. I also heard about the bad effect of artificial lights to the human body.

I've done the hiding vegetables in sauce or soup thing, it's very effective! Also smoothies. A balanced diet is the key though, lots of variety and colour.

A varied diet that is colourful and exciting looking. And lots of soups and smoothies with hidden goodness.

With difficulty!i sneak 2 piece of fruit in lunch boxes & 2 veg at dinner. She also drinks plenty of apple juice

Blending veg into sauces and leaving fruit around the house for snacking - but they do also have a multi vitamin each day