I’m a mum of two fussy eaters and sometimes it can be very challenging to make their meals and snacks tasty and nutritious at the same time. Most of the days we have to resort to smoothies and fruit juices to make sure they have their 5 pieces of fruits and vegetables a day. And sometimes we don’t even get to 5, just 3… On those days, it’s hard not to stress about their eating habits and not to feel guilty about it. I have a few tricks I use to get them to eat more vegetables and fruits: making sandwiches with hummus instead of butter, making ice lollies with frozen fruits and a little hidden veggies or making pizza sauce with lots of veggies blended into the tomato purée. As any mum struggling with picky eaters or children with sensory processing disorder, I too do a lot of extra miles to feed my kids with healthy food.
Fruit juices are a life saver in this matter too: a cup or a small box a day covers one portion out of the recommended daily five. They are especially handy when out and about. Hydration is very important and children are normally too busy to stop and have a drink. One thing though is important when you give fruit juice to the children: make sure it’s actually healthy, so it doesn’t contain refined sugar. Refined sugar is not only bad for anyone’s health – especially when it’s unnecessarily added to fruit juices – let alone small children.
We’ve just been trying out Appy Kids Co juices, made specifically for children. They use ethically sourced premium ingredients from fairly contracted farmers (with a guaranteed price per kg for the season), the products are Vegan Approved by the Vegetarian Society. Appy Kids Co uses renewable resources for their packaging. As well as using recyclable materials, they also give back by replanting trees.
We tested the Peppa Pig range, (natural ingredients and no GMOs, gluten, added sugars, or artificial preservatives) and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pouch range (low calorie juices with added vitamins packed in convenient pouches). They both have been very popular, the children really liked them. They absolutely loved the fruity school bars too, I’m going to have to order some more of these for them!
Even Winnie the Pooh enjoyed it:
Appy Kids Co’s range is available online by Ocado or Amazon and in Wholefoods, Tesco and other supermarkets.
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Comments
Has to be mango for Me!
I’ve tried these juices too, they are really tasty and the kids just loved the packaging. Oh and I am loving that Winnie the Poo!
I must admit I don’t count up how many portions of fruit and veg the kids get – I think perhaps I should. Juice is definitely a great way of getting it into them though.
These look fab i’ve not heard of them before, I am sure my children would love these. Fruit juices are always a hit in our house. xx
strawberry or blackcurrant
Raspberry
Grapefruit.
My favourite is blackcurrant either by itself or with other fruits.
Apple
Cranberry
I live pineapple juice.
Mango juice
I love berries x
Blueberry
Pomegranate.
Pineapple
Apple
Strawberry x
Pineapple ?
Blackcurrant.
Passion fruit
Mango
Pears
Apple
Thank you for sharing with us on #ablogginggoodtime ? My sons’ school only allows water now we are not even allowed to supply the 0% sugar juices.
i love mango juice x
I love mango juice
For me personally it has to be apples
Orange 🙂
Raspberry or blackcurrant.
I love orange for juice!
blackcurrant
Blackcurrants love them
pineapple and mango
Orange 🙂
Pineapple
pineapple
Blackcurrant
Orange 🙂
I love cherry 😀
Pineapple is my favourite.
I like kiwi
I love Pineapple juice.
Blackcurrant for one grandson and apple for the other
Strawberry for us
I like apple juice and my favourite fruit is melon
strawberry
My kids were just laughing with me yesterday on how I used to add water to apple juice to make it go further with 6! #GlobalBlogging
I still do that! They are really spoilt with the juices here and there so I add a splash of orange juice to their water when they are really picky.
love apple juice x
Love giveaways! #familyfunlinky
orange juice
blackcurrant
pineapple
Love pineapple x
I love cranberry juice
Pineapple
I do worry abut my kids having too much sugar and they usually have water, but then I get worried that they need the vitamins! These drinks sound perfect for picnics, packed lunches and mealtimes
Thanks for linking up with #globalblogging I hope you come back next week!
Mango and strawberry juices, yummy
I love these juices and love how ethical they are. Tasty too, they were in Aldi last year and used to buy then for Robert! Thank you for linking up to the #familyfunlinky
I like kiwi juice mixed with pineapple juice
I’m not in the UK so I can’t enter your giveaway, but I would be very interested to have my kids try this juice. I have one daughter who is very picky with her veggies (and she doesn’t like any fruit!) so these would be a great help for me!
~Jess
#FabFridayPost
Mangoes are my favourite!
Favourite juice would be elderflower
Orange
Mango is my favourite
Nothing better than ice cold pineapple and apple
pink lady apples
I love mango
Apple juice
Even at 9 the easiest way to get fruit down my youngest is fruit juice or smoothies! This juice looks fab #globalblogging
Blackcurrant
We use these too – they’re great! #FabFridayPost
Apple ?
Apple juice
Fresh orange juice is actually my favourite. Sarah #fabfridaypost
Mango
These sound really good, I’m a big of strawberries, thanks.
apple juice for us
Mango is my daughter’s favourite!
Oranges is mine and my daughters, filled with lots of vitamin c to
Orange, its so refreshing.
Orange
Pineapple is my favourite
I love mixing orange and mango
I love a fresh pineapple juice . It’s just so refreshing . Fab giveaway would love to be your lucky winner
Love fresh juice
No added sugar is a boon these look very tasty
pineapple
We love apple and raspberry, or raspberry and banana – which we weren’t going to try but was a happy and tasty accident.
I like cherries.
Orange…nice and simple!
I love cherry flavour juice, mmm! x
has to be strawberry
Apple ?
All 3 of my kids love apple juice but finding one without masses of sugar is often a real problem.
My favourite fruit for fruit juice is orange
Apple xx
Apple xxx
I love water melon.