Healthy eating with Go-Slow-Whoa

The Traffic Light Food Guide is an easy model to help you understand how to nourish your body with healthy and fresh foods.

Tips for eating

• Eat fresh fruit with your breakfast, limiting servings to 1/2 cup.
• For dessert at lunch, enjoy more fresh fruit.
• At dinner, fill half of your plate with fresh vegetables.
• Only snack when you’re hungry.

Lifestyle Resources

• eXtension – Food, Families, Fitness
• ChooseMyPlate
• Nourish Interactive
• Kids Eat Right
• Nutrition – American Academy of Pediatrics
• First 1000 days, Child Nutrition

Recipe Resources

• Kids Health Recipes
• What’s Cooking USDA Mixing Bowl
• UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program Healthy Recipes
• Kid’s Cookbook from Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service
• Nutrition for Active Kids and Young Athletes