{"id":1248,"date":"2007-09-19T23:48:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T23:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2011-05-29T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T18:22:10","slug":"celebrating-festivities-with-healthy-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/celebrating-festivities-with-healthy-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Festivities with Healthy Treats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh YUMMY! Take a look at all this juicy fruit and how nicely it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been presented. Wow, what a nice way to celebrate a birthday!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/healthy-food-190907.jpg\" title=\"healthy-food-190907.jpg\" alt=\"healthy-food-190907.jpg\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nSometimes as parents we feel that a birthday or celebration isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t complete without a cake or other \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sweet\u00e2\u20ac\u009d goodies, but we have seen time and time again in school that children are just as happy sharing a colourful fruit platter with their friends and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s healthy too! (Of course if the cake is there, many will choose the cake rather than the fruit, so why give them the choice!)<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank all parents for taking into consideration the dietary habits of other children in the class when deciding what kind of treats to send into school. Please remember that if you want to do the best for your child, begin with what you put into their little bodies and create healthy habits for the rest of their lives.  Click here to view some healthy recipe websites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For ideas on healthy food choices for kids please log onto:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/recipes\/healthy-kids-party-food\/2006\/03\/13\/1142098395448.html\" title=\"Healthy kids party foods\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy kids party foods<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsmyhome.com\/recipes-for-kids\/index.htm\" title=\"Recipes for kids\" target=\"_blank\">Recipes for kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthyfridge.org\/kidsrec.html\" title=\"Healthy fridge\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy fridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionhealth.com\/healthy-living\/parenting\/food-fitness\/healthy-eating\/mealtime-tips\/school-lunches\" title=\"School lunch ideas\" target=\"_blank\">School lunch ideas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh YUMMY! Take a look at all this juicy fruit and how nicely it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been presented. Wow, what a nice way to celebrate a birthday! Sometimes as parents we feel that a birthday or celebration isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t complete without a cake or other \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sweet\u00e2\u20ac\u009d goodies, but we have seen time and time again in school that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5438,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/5438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}