Moms and Dads…we know it’s hard to get kids to eat fruits and vegetables when they have so many other choices, but here at Imagination Farms we hope that we can help you by giving you good choices that will make snack time and mealtime fun and healthy for your whole family.

Our mission is to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables among children.

Imagination Farms works with a number of world-class growers and shippers committed to quality and food safety. Every package of produce packed in the Disney Garden label is packed to meet rigorous quality standards that make it a fresh and wholesome product for your children. To that end, Imagination Farms and Disney Garden are working to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables among children.

Here are some of our favorite ideas to help you get your kids excited about fruits and vegetables and help them start eating more.

Look for Disney Garden branded fruits and vegetables. The exciting packaging that includes their favorite characters, as well as informational games and activities will help them relate to the products.

My Favorite Foods: Have your child make a list of their favorite foods. Make sure the list includes at least 3 fruits and 3 veggies. Then make sure that you always have those items in the house and include them in your cooking.

Fruit & Veggie Quest: Kids tend to not want to eat things that they don’t know what it is. Take them shopping with you and have them pick out at least one new vegetable and one new fruit every week. When you bring the item home, talk about its appearance, flavor, texture and other important characteristics of why they chose the new fruit and veggies. You can even spend time together on the internet researching where the item came from and new recipes of how to use it. This will help your child feel engaged.

Chart It: Use the Good Food Gauge on this web site to track your child’s eating habits. This fun and easy tool provides rewards as well. The goal is to eat at least 5 or more fruits and vegetables every day.

Collect It: Look for fruit with Disney Garden stickers on it. Have your children print out the collectible pages on our website and then look for that fruit in the store. This will encourage them to try new fruits and collect the stickers like baseball cards and bubblegum.

Snack Attack: Be sure to have snack size fruits and vegetables cut up in your refrigerator and ready for your little ones to snack on. The easier it is… the more they will eat.

Play With Your Food: Kids love to be creative. Look at
our kid friendly recipes and help your kids create fun kid friendly fruit and vegetable snacks.

A Family That Cooks Together: Have your children help you prepare dinner. They can wash the fruits and vegetables, peel the corn or other activities that will make them responsible for their food and help them learn about fruits and vegetables.

Grow With Me: Pick an item to grow in a garden, flowerbed or pot. A tomato works great for this project. The child can help plant the seeds and take care of the plant. This will help them learn about where food comes from and they will value fresh food that they grew.

From time to time you may notice callouts on the back of our packaging that make reference to the number of calories that are burned engaging in a specific activity. All references are based on a weight of 70 pounds which is considered average for a 10 year old boy or girl. Energy is based relative to one serving of a specific fruit or vegetable, and the amount of time it takes a 70 pound child to burn those calories during a specific period of time.

If you have great ideas about how to help your kids eat more fruits and vegetables, we’d love to hear from you with the intention of posting them here for all to see. Our goal is to raise healthy active children and together we can. Please send your ideas to info@imagination-farms.com.