Hey there and welcome to Pursuing Health.

I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, Family Physician and former CrossFit Games athlete.

Here is your bonus weekly CrossFit Health Tip which was originally published on CrossFit.com.

Enjoy!

I'm here today with Nicole Christensen who is the owner of CrossFit Roots. She's a CrossFit

Level 4 trainer. She's on the CrossFit seminar staff as a Flowmaster and also the Director of

the CrossFit Nutrition Course. So I'm really excited to sit down and talk a little bit about nutrition

for kids because you have two lovely little girls at home. So why don't we start off with breakfast?

How do you approach breakfast with them? Yeah so the really the thing we've morphed into over

the past couple of years is they just get two things on their plate for breakfast and it's one fruit

whichever rotating fruits in the house and then some form of protein. So it might be scrambled eggs,

might be sausage, it might be you know chicken or steak from the knife before but it's really

just two things on a plate. So simple, really simple and but it works it just we don't have the

discussion about what's for breakfast at a really and they oftentimes will eat at least one

of the two things. There's still some choice, there's still some variety. Yes you don't necessarily

have to go with breakfast here. And it doesn't take me a lot of time. This is important. Yes.

Awesome. All right. So then you're sending them off to school. How do you make sure that they're

prepared for a healthy lunch? Well right now I'm packing their lunches which I'm trying to get

you know off to their responsibility but so yeah so I do pack their lunches still I mean they're

six and eight so we're getting there. But yeah so we have these containers, these metal containers

and they get one metal container that's what I would consider their lunch and that's usually

you know leftover potatoes, some type of meat, sometimes I'll fry up like sausage or like a hot

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