Organic food basically refers to those foods which don’t have any sort of chemicals like pesticides and insecticides in them. Very occasionally natural fertilizers and even insect repellants and used on these. They don’t have any sort of artificial colors or flavors or even preservatives. Now we need to teach our children how to stay healthy by eating good food and a proper example of this is to eat organic food.
The best way to get your children to know about the benefits of organic food would be compare it with the everyday food. You can get labels or even cans of the different types of organic foods and then compare it with the labels of the non organic foods. Good choices of comparison would be to use chicken nuggets, frozen vegetables with organic chicken nuggets and fresh organic vegetables. You have to show your children the amounts of fat, salt and sugar which go in non organic food.
Another good way of showing your children than organic foods are good for you is to make an ice cream which is organic. You can even save a label form the usual ice cream in order to compare the one which you make to the inorganic one. All you have to do is mix around 2 cups of heavy cream which is organic along with ¾ cups of organic sugar and also 2/3 cups of an organic half and half. Then you mix this really well and you place it in an ice cream maker. Then while you see that the ice cream freezes you can compare labels.
You will find that inorganic ice cream will have a long list of preservative like monosodium glutamate, ammonium carbonate, ammonium alginate and so on. You have to make your children familiar with these names. You also have to ask them to buy things which don’t contain that. They should not opt for the ice creams which have long lists of chemicals in their labels. You can even teach them to plant organic gardens. This way they can simply use the fruits and vegetables from the gardens. They won’t have to worry about getting vegetables and fruits which have chemicals in them. You can start with plants which grow fast like radishes, lettuce and also tomatoes. As they learn how to garden properly they can move onto more complex things.
