Ravenous for fruit

If you want to know how to get your kids to gobble up a healthy snack with relish, here's the secret weapon -- two hours of swimming. Today was our first family visit to our blue lagoon, the local swimming pool. The kids were jumping around all morning wondering when we'd be leaving. I was having childhood flashbacks as I always had to wait until my mom's favorite soap opera was over before pool time. How times have changed, I told them we'd go after I finished blogging.

After gathering towels, my new book and an ice cold water bottle, it was time to figure out a snack for the kids. I love our pool because they allow patrons to bring in their own lunch and snacks, with a designated grassy area to chow down so no goldfish are floating about. They don't force feed you the junk at concessions with bad policy. So I packed along some ripe plums on ice, along with a not-so-healthy yogurty snack. After a couple hours of swimming, plum juice was running down both my kids' chins.

If you want to motivate your kids to eat healthy this summer, bring cold, fresh fruit to the swimming pool. Avoid concessions and hand them frozen grapes instead. Trust me, they'll ravenously eat 'em right up. Here are tips on buying healthy kids snacks from the folks over at AOL Body.