The Smart Mom’s Guide to Healthy Snacking: How to Raise a Smart Snacker from Tot to Teen

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Raise a Smart Snacker!
Does your child snack all day? Raid the pantry when he gets home from school? Sneak snacks when you’re not looking? Love to eat sweets and treats?
Healthy snacking can be a daily discussion (or battle!) between parents and their kids. Parents emphasize healthy snack food and kids just want what tastes good–often sweet, salty or fatty foods.
If you have a love-hate relationship with kid snacks, you’re not alone.
But with nearly a quarter of the nutrition kids get daily coming from snacks, it behooves parents to have a snack plan that works…and it benefits kids, too.
In The Smart Mom’s Guide to Healthy Snacking, pediatric dietitian Jill Castle lays out the acronym SNACK SMART to offer caregivers a fail-proof strategy to teach children healthy snacking habits, empowering them to be smart snackers.
This book will teach you how to:

Set up a routine with snacking, from where and when, to what foods to serve
Choose snack foods, emphasizing nutritious options while including room for sweets and treats
Encourage mindful eating and appetite awareness with snacking
Make fast and healthy yummy snacks for kids that spark curiosity and fun
Monitor snacking without being a food cop
Respond to common challenges around snacking such as sneak snacking, overeating, and unhealthy food choices

The Smart Mom’s Guide to Healthy Snacking offers a plethora of snack options and ideas for kids – including packaged snacks, healthy snack combinations, on-the-go snacks, and easy kid-friendly recipes for healthy snacks.
Take back the snack, lead your child to nutritious, satisfying options, and teach healthy snacking habits that will last a lifetime!

Review

Just like the smart moms guide to starting solids
I loved this information. -Allison Mayo
 

I loved the book! As a mom to a toddler, and a dietitian myself, I think it’s very informative and great resource. I love how Jill says that monitoring needs to be an “inside” job. It was truly a great and informative book that I’ve already used with my toddler! -Jessica White
 

I really enjoyed the content. Full of practical expertise and evidence
-based practices to help families “smartly” feed their children in our busy world. -Whitney Alfaro

The Smart Mom’s Guide is
exactly what it intends to be. A map for mom’s to unlock the secret of snacking and how to use it as a time to add in more nutritious foods along with fun foods. -Ilana Buchbinder

From the Author

I wrote The Smart Mom’s Guide to Healthy Snacking to help parents navigate one of the most challenging aspects of feeding and raising kids: Snacking. 

There’s no denying snacks are a central part of every child’s diet. Parse out the daily routine of feeding kids, and you’ll find parents are making about 28,000 meals and snacks over the course of their child’s childhood (18 years). That’s a lot of food! 

In fact, snacks make up about 28% of a 2-to-5-year-old child’s energy intake and 27% for older kids. That’s more than a quarter of what they eat in a day. It’s critical to get this part of nutrition and feeding right. 

I also know that snacks and the habits around eating them are a pain point for parents. Parents love snacks… and they hate them. I know if I can help parents see snacks in a new light and give them some strategies and new ideas, they’ll feel better about their child’s eating. 

A game plan helps any parent feed better–and feel better!

The Smart Mom’s Guide to Healthy Snacking helps parents master snacks, including their timing, frequency, and nutritional composition. 

More importantly, it helps them raise a Smart Snacker.

This book will help parents of tots to teens:

Understand the role of snacks in their child’s diet 
Identify how many and how frequently a child should be eating snacks
Focus on nutrients that satisfy and help children manage their appetite 
Plan healthy snacks using my simple step-by-step method
Load up on creative, healthy snack ideas