Eating healthy while you’re traveling can be a challenge. I can’t be the only one who comes home from trips craving organic fruit and a fresh crunchy salad. At least adult menus sometimes offer healthy choices, children’s menus almost never do. This is one of the reasons my children only eat off the adult menu, but that can get expensive.
In what I hope will become a trend in the travel industry, Hyatt has teamed up with famed chef Alice Waters to create children’s menus that are not only healthy, but kid tested and approved.
Don’t know who Alice Waters is? Neither did I, so I did a little research and fell in love. Alice Waters could be considered the mother of the food revolution encouraging all of us, not just children, to eat real food. You know, the kind grown without pesticides or antibiotics, in season, locally grown and most of all, tasty.
Chef Alice Waters
Watch this 60 Minutes piece on her and tell me you aren’t smitten as well. My seven year old watched it and is now begging for a vegetable garden. In fact, Alice Waters was part of the driving force behind the veggie garden at the White House. She might be soft spoken, but she means business.
Her partnership with The Hyatt has created the Hyatt Flavor Journey. I’ve seen “healthy” menus for kids before. They usually involve throwing some carrot sticks in with the chicken nuggets and fries. This menu (while I’ve not tried it) appears to be much more thoughtful. Organic turkey burgers with home made ketchup anyone? I have to believe each menu item is as tasty as it is healthy, or Alice Waters would not put her name on it.
My favorite part of the new Hyatt kids menu? They offer select “adult” entrees at 50% off for children. My kids have been raised on the adult menu and in fact I never even ask for a kids menu when we go out to eat. Because of this, I have some very adventurous eaters. Keaton’s favorite food is sushi and Wilson could live on eggs benedict (not necessarily healthy, but better than an egg McMuffin)
We travel not just to visit new destinations but to experience different cultures. If you are eating chicken nuggets you’re only getting half the story. When we were in France JJ ordered escargot. The best part was figuring out how to eat them and not end up wearing them.
So kudos to the Hyatt for being a leader in healthy fare for kids. Join me Monday night June 24 at 9:00pm EDT for a twitter party sponsored by the Hyatt. We’ll be chatting healthy eating and travel, and giving away a two night stay at Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Regency. I am being compensated for my time on the twitter party.
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