• Vitamin A (500 mcg) can be readily found in vegetables, including carrots and sweet potatoes

• Likewise, Vitamin C (45 mg) can found in fruits such as blueberries, strawberries, oranges, and cantaloupes

Of course, whenever in doubt, Food Guide Pyramid for Young Children (http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/KidsPyra/) remains standard for nutritional eating for children between ages of 2 and 6. This includes Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta (6 servings a day); Vegetables (3 servings a day); Fruits (2 servings a day); Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese (2 servings a day); Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans, Eggs, and Nuts (2 servings a day); Fats, Oils, and Sweets (use sparingly).

Snack Time

Snacks will typically not ruin your child's appetite an hour or so before dinner because he or she has a small stomach. Because your child may not receive enough nutrients during dinner, snacks should be viewed as an important time to meet those needs, especially if they are offered at a regularly scheduled “snack time.”

However, beware of snacks that provide little more than calories such as chips, candy, and sodas. Elizabeth Ward, MS, RD, a spokesperson for American Dietetic Association, says, “If you are going to offer snacks, make sure they are supplementing meals, not sabotaging them.”

Here some healthy snack food suggestions:

• Graham Crackers • Popcorn • Pretzels • Milk • Cheese • Yogurt • Hard Cooked Eggs • Fruit • Raw Vegetables • Crackers, Rice Cakes, Celery with Peanut Butter • Applesauce • Dried or Canned Fruit • Low-fat Pudding • Animal Crackers • Home-made trail mix made from dried fruit, nuts and dry cereal • Bread Sticks • Baked Chips and Salsa • Dry Cereal

If that sounds easy, it's not. All major decisions, including our housing decisions, are fraught with emotional factors not often recognized.

In making your housing decisions, you employ your personal housing value system, including all that you value about where and how you live. This system incorporates personal, social and tangible factors as well as financial perceptions that are not necessarily objective views.

In addition, you have a housing history, made up of values, wants and needs associated with every place you've ever called "home", and that also influences your decisions; left unexamined, it can mire you in past and undermine your goals.

If you decide that you too wish to be a home owner, it is important that you begin to accumulate savings while you are renting.

Begin observing housing market to get a sense of what houses cost and where different houses are located. While doing this begin to develop a sense of importance of market timing - when is or isn't a good time to buy.

Make decisions about living arrangement you want in short term and in retirement, and set these as goals to work toward.

Modify your plan realistically through years, and live up to it.

Anchor your retirement planning with home of your dreams, and save regularly to make your dreams come true.

And, finally, learn all you can about your housing history and value system to that you can make right decisions as your plan unfolds.

If you follow all of these steps, a new home could very well be in your future.