{"id":13603,"date":"2013-09-07T04:03:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T11:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13603"},"modified":"2013-09-07T04:03:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T11:03:33","slug":"want-your-kids-to-eat-healthy-make-fruit-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/want-your-kids-to-eat-healthy-make-fruit-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Want Your Kids to Eat Healthy? Make Fruit Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/frfrest.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you tell a child that he must eat that shiny red apple, don&#8217;t be surprised if he turns into a little monster of displeasure. Like adults, kids have keen taste buds and preferences. Slipping a healthy piece of fruit in the mouth of a child who doesn&#8217;t want it won&#8217;t necessarily make that kid grow up forever longing for fruit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy getting kids to eat healthy, but there are plenty of upcoming California fruit and vegetable festivals where food is fun, and kids become slightly more receptive to the idea of eating natural foods in \u00a0colors purple, orange, green and red.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOOD FESTIVALS YOU AND YOUR KIDS WILL LOVE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>APPLES &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-apple-festivals.html\">California Apple Festivals\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>APPLES &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/springville-apple-festival.html\">Springville Apple Festival\u00a0<\/a>October 19-20, 2013<\/li>\n<li>APPLES &#8211; Fortuna Apple Harvest Festival October 5- 6, 2013<\/li>\n<li>AVOCADOS &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/carpinteria-avocado-festival.html\">Carpinteria Avocado Festival<\/a> October 4-6, 2013<\/li>\n<li>AVOCADOS &#8211; Morro Bay Avocado &amp; Margarita Festival September 14 &#8211; 15, 2013<\/li>\n<li>EGGPLANT &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/loomis-eggplant-festival.html\">Loomis Eggplant Festival\u00a0<\/a>October 5, 2013<\/li>\n<li>LEMONS &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/goleta-lemon-festival.html\">Goleta Lemon Festival\u00a0<\/a>Sept. 28-29, 2013<\/li>\n<li>MANDARINS &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/auburn-mandarin-festival.html\">Auburn Mandarin Festival <\/a>November 22-24, 2013<\/li>\n<li>POMEGRANATES &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/madera-pomegranate-festival.html\">Madera Pomegranate Festival<\/a>\u00a0November 2, 2013<\/li>\n<li>PUMPKINS &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-is-all-about-pumpkins-a-pumpkin-primer\/\">California Pumpkin Festivals<\/a><\/li>\n<li>RAISINS &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/dinuba-raisin-day-festival.html\"> Dinuba Raisin Harvest Festival <\/a>September 27-29, 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you tell a child that he must eat that shiny red apple, don&#8217;t be surprised if he turns into a little monster of displeasure. Like adults, kids have keen taste buds and preferences. Slipping a healthy piece of fruit in the mouth of a child who doesn&#8217;t want it won&#8217;t necessarily make that kid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}