[blindkid] Learning About Healthy Foods [Was] RE: Options for a healthy lunch

melissa R Green lissa1531 at gmail.com
Thu May 7 23:16:22 UTC 2015


Arielle.  I use this site a lot as well.  It is very informative and
helpful.  Its also easy to navegate.


Have a blessed day.
Best regards,
Melissa R Green and Pj
Love is being committed with out a guarantee.


-----Original Message-----
From: blindkid [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Arielle
Silverman via blindkid
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 2:01 PM
To: Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)
Cc: Arielle Silverman
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Learning About Healthy Foods [Was] RE: Options for a
healthy lunch

Hi all. I really like the site
www.directionsforme.org
It contains a searchable database of thousands of food and drug labels that
are fully accessible to the blind reader. I believe it is run by Horizons
for the Blind in Chicago. I use it all the time to read cooking
instructions, nutrition facts and ingredient listings on packaged foods and
dosing instructions for OTC medications. You might encourage your kids to
use this website to read the cooking directions for their favorite frozen,
canned or packaged meals once they are old enough to prepare these items
independently.
Arielle

On 5/7/15, Shellie Kalinsky via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Allison-
> I agree w/ you. The tech readers and apps are inconsistent and it can 
> be very cumbersome for kids to get the info on packaging.  My daughter 
> is a freshman at our local community college and is a pre-school 
> major.  She just completed a course called "Safety, Health and 
> Nutrition For the Young Child".  In that course she had to use a lot 
> of online resources like myplate.org and international food and 
> nutrition sites.  She learned a lot and was able to teach me a lot 
> about where to find balanced meals/snack plans for kids.  It seemed 
> most useful when she used apps and trackers where she could input her 
> food intake & exercise habits and then the tracker would calculate 
> everything and report it to her.  Myplate.org has a Supertracker 
> section where you can input all this info.  It was difficult for her 
> to navigate alone though.  But with classmate assistance and a few 
> bits of help from me she was able to use it.  The entire family can 
> use it and then you can discuss together.  Hope this info helps other
families find new ways to discuss healthy habits.
>
> Shellie
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 7, 2015, at 2:59 PM, Allison Hilliker via blindkid 
>> <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A blindness related reframe for this topic...
>>
>> What ways have other parents used to teach their blind/partially 
>> blind children about healthy foods? As a blind adult, I wish I had 
>> learned more about nutrition growing up. Some things I learned like 
>> other kids did, info about fruits/veggies etc., but other facts about 
>> every-day foods come from printed info that sighted people see.
>>
>> It can be challenging to know for sure what is and is not healthy 
>> when you cannot easily read food packaging. There are several 
>> assistive tech options for reading food labels, but I've tried many 
>> of them and they're inconsistently helpful at best. For example, one 
>> may learn that yogurt is good for you, but if you read yogurt 
>> packaging, one learns that this is not always true depending on the
brand.
>>
>> My tip to parents would be to share bits of info with your kids about 
>> what you've read from the food packages their eating from. Other kids 
>> can read these facts if they look, but our blind kids miss this info. 
>> And over a lifetime of missing nutrition info, it's harder to know 
>> what's what as an adult.
>>
>> What are others' experiences with this topic? I'm curious.
>>
>> Best,
>> Allison
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindkid [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Carol Castellano via blindkid
>> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 10:43 AM
>> To: Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)
>> Cc: Carol Castellano
>> Subject: Re: [blindkid] Options for a healthy lunch
>>
>> Gentle reminder.  This list is to discuss blindness-related issues.
>> Carol
>>
>> At 12:53 PM 5/7/2015, you wrote:
>>> Parents should advocate for their kids to have some time on the 
>>> playground during the day.  Schools have been working to provide 
>>> healthier options for their students at lunchtime.
>>>
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