{"id":1216,"date":"2016-02-19T02:48:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T07:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2016-02-19T02:48:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T07:48:45","slug":"parents-kids-and-healthy-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"Parents, Kids and Healthy Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/106975.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/106975-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"106975\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/106975-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/106975.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Children tend to be picky eaters and for most of us this only means\u00a0a little\u00a0wasted food and some frustration at the dinner table. \u00a0But what about the parents who cannot afford to throw away food? \u00a0The working poor who must stretch to make ends meet often have the same nutrition goals for their children but lack the financial resources to introduce their children to new foods and flavors. \u00a0Statistics show that children must be given a new food 8-15 times before it will be accepted. \u00a0Imagine how much discarded food that amounts to in a week, a month. \u00a0Caitlin Daniel reinforces\u00a0the idea that many parents share the same health desires for their children in her article,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/16\/opinion\/why-poor-children-cant-be-picky-eaters.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;_r=0\"><em>A Hidden Cost to Giving Kids Their Vegetables<\/em><\/a> and offers possible ways that schools and organizations may help support a healthy lifestyle for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children tend to be picky eaters and for most of us this only means\u00a0a little\u00a0wasted food and some frustration at the dinner table. \u00a0But what about the parents who cannot afford to throw away food? \u00a0The working poor who must stretch to make ends meet often have the same nutrition goals for their children but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1216\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parents, Kids and Healthy Eating<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[553,552,550,557,551,555,558,556,554],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-income-tax","category-personal-finances","tag-cost-of-food","tag-finicky-eaters","tag-healthy-eating","tag-healthy-lifestyle","tag-kids","tag-middle-class","tag-new-foods","tag-parents","tag-poor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}