Eating more fruits and veggies is easy with a few creative ideas. For example:

• Around the house. Keep fruits and vegetables visible and easily accessible, and you’ll find you eat them more often. For example, keep a big bowl of fruit on the kitchen counter or table, or containers of washed, chopped vegetables in the fridge for snacks.
  
  
• Breakfast. Add your favorite fruit to cereal, oatmeal, or yogurt (not just bananas, but also try apples, grapes, berries, peaches, or mandarin oranges). Choose 100% fruit juice instead of fruit drinks.
  
  
• Lunch. Pack a pita wrap full of chopped veggies. Have a salad or vegetable soup. Fill a baggie with cut fruits and veggies to munch on.
  
  
• Snacks. Fill ice cube trays with 100% juice, put at toothpick in each cube, and enjoy the mini-popsicles in no time. Snack on baby-carrots or dried fruit at work instead of candy.
  
  
• Dinner. Have two vegetables and a salad as part of your meal. Supplement any take-out dinners with fruits and vegetables from home.
  
  
• Dessert. Try some fresh fruit for dessert. Treat yourself to your favorite - strawberries, mango, pineapple, melon, etc.
  
  
• Drinks. Drink 100% juice ^[1] instead of soda for a snack.
  
  
• Fast food. Fruit is the original fast food! If you’re hungry and in a hurry, grab a banana or an apple, or any other easy-to-eat fruit.
  

For more great ideas see the CalorieKing.com article 40 Easy Ways to Eat More Fruits and Vegetables. You'll find the link at the end of this article.

There are also many articles in the CalorieKing.com library about different fruits and vegetables and how to prepare them, with links to tasty recipes. Just type "fruit" or "vegetables" in the Article Search box, or search directly for a specific fruit or vegetable.

There are fruit and vegetable recommendations for children ages two and older. To see your child's recommendations, look at the tables on the first page of this article.

Encourage your family to be more involved with what they eat by having them help make the grocery list and assist with preparing dinner. That way, everyone can select his or her favorite fruits and vegetables. By involving your kids, they’ll be more likely to eat healthy foods, and they’ll learn the basics of eating right.

Try these fun tips for helping kids eat more fruits and veggies:

• Dress it up. Top a bowl of cereal with a smiling face made from sliced bananas for eyes, raisins for a nose, and an orange slice for a mouth.
  
  
• Get artistic. Make a picture using broccoli florets for trees, carrots and celery for flowers, cauliflower for clouds, and a yellow squash for a sun. When you're done, you can eat your masterpiece!
  
  
• Mix it up. Make fruit kabobs for kids using pineapple chunks, bananas, grapes and berries.
  
  
• Get competitive. Start a little healthy competition in your family by tracking everyone’s fruit and vegetable consumption as well as physical activity levels for a week. Total up at the end of the week and see who ate the most fruits and vegetables and did the most exercise.
  
  
• Go shopping with your children. Take them to the grocery store or farmers’ market to let them see all the different shapes and colors that fruits and vegetables come in. Let them pick out a new fruit and vegetable to try.