Kids Healthy Eating for Assignments

When our child models are booked out for paid modelling assignments, it important they start the day well with a good breakfast, to help maintain their energy and concentration levels.

On photo shoots and film sets, refreshments and food is provided for children. As a parent or chaperone, its essential to make sure your child gets what they need to ensure their best performance.

Try a breakfast high in fibre such as porridge, muesli, whole grain cereal or toast. This ensures a steady supply of energy throughout the morning and helps with concentration.

In addition to breakfast, here's some other useful ideas;

We all know that calcium is vital for strong bones and teeth and is particularly important for growing. Try milk, cheese, yogurts, sardines, nuts and dark green leafy vegetables for a great source of calcium:

Vegetables are a great source of vitamins and minerals and important for your child's development. Introduce a new vegetable by mixing it in with a food that's already liked, such as carrot or swede mashed with potato. Sprinkle a little grated cheese over plain vegetables to make them more appealing. Add vegetables as a pizza topping - let your children decorate their own pizza to make mealtimes more fun

Try these fruity suggestions: Make ice lollies from fresh fruit juice, or add fresh fruit to jelly before it sets. Make fruit smoothies and shakes by liquidising fruit such as strawberries, mango or bananas with fruit juice or milk. Make a fruit filled tasty pudding such as apple crumble with custard.

Kids are always active and love to run around. Keeping their fluids topped up is essential particularly during play and activity. Water is ideal, or perhaps a diluted fruit juice drink. Get them a novelty-drinking cup or sports bottle to encourage more regular drinks.

Remember - Providing little ones with a healthy varied diet gives them a great start, helps growth and gets them into the habit of eating well and keep salt intake to a minimum.

What are the hot fashion trends for 2007?

60'S, 70'S and even 80's styles are still in full effect for the upcoming spring season, many being continuations and reworkings of trends we've seen over the last couple of seasons, but with a few modern twists thrown in.

MINI DRESSES - The mini remains the strongest player in the pack ranging in style from flirty and girly, sexy to innocent, in shapes like the baby doll or more fitted with attention paid to the waist. White is in again, basic, but also look for beiges and nudes to be popular colours as well.

PRINTS - After a very dark winter season, prints are making a come back in a big way. This upcoming season are 70's, animal and floral style. Florals range from 60's mod to sophisticated and refined. What is important that the print

matches the stature of the woman. Very petite women will look dwarfed by an oversized print and women with a bigger frame can dwarf a print if its too small. Look for styles that play up the shape of your body. If prints scare you, start small. Use a printed accessory like a scarf, shoe or bag and slowly work in separate pieces, like a skirt or blouse.

SPACE ODYSSEY - You are going to see lots of metallics this season, these clothes have a harder edge, a more futuristic look about them, some even have an 80's touch with a punk feel. You'll see lots of colour combinations, but the silver with white or black looks the hardest and most futuristic, while the golds tend to look a bit more feminine and romantic.

ACCESSORIES - While you may find trends like space odyssey and neon scary, you never have to try the clothes on to participate in the trend. They are two of the biggest trends in accessories as well. Accessories are the easiest and most often the less painful way to participate in a trend that may seem kind of "out there" for us regular folk. You can use everything from super shiny metallic shoes and bags you can see your reflection in, lucite jewelry and lots of patent leather for future-looking accessories.

So mix and match them with the easiest trends in clothing, like the whites and the nudes, prints and soft tailoring to stay trendy and super chic for spring!

IMAGE Online Spring 2007

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