Food is more fun when you use your imagination  A few years back as I was writing a recipe for a kid-friendly parfait, I was trying to come up with a catchy, imaginative name.  My son was in the room at the time and I said out loud, “What would you call a parfait made with yogurt, banana slices and granola?”

This year, improve your family’s eating habits by adding healthy ingredients to your everyday meals and snacks. Making the move towards better nutrition doesn’t have to feel like deprivation or punishment. Focus on the foods to eat more of and gradually replace the nutritional no-no’s with nutrient rich, delicious alternatives. Below are 18 of my favorite food enhancement that I