Chickin Feed Provides the Tools to Help Families Choose a Smarter, Healthier Lifestyle

ATLANTA, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Chickin Feed, LLC, an Atlanta-based company on a mission to help families develop better eating habits, encourages everyone to plan now for a healthier 2009 by adding Chickin Feed to your holiday shopping lists. With the current economic slump, Americans looking to trim costs are likely to start eliminating items from their grocery lists. And, with the holidays just around the corner, so is the temptation to overindulge on rich holiday fare. Chickin Feed can help you manage both situations with simple, fun solutions.

The company's Nutrition Tracking Board teaches you how to make informed and healthy choices towards a balanced daily diet while the Primer, A useful companion for modern families, provides expert tips on everything from nutrition to kitchen planning to keeping everyone active .

The Chickin Feed Nutrition Tracking Board (retail $30.00) teaches children, and adults, to have a healthy relationship with food. Each board has a set of tiny chick magnets for use in tracking the day's meals. It is available in six delectable colors: Whirled Peas, Pumpkin Pie, Banana Pudding, Jadite Glass, Blue Plate Special and Berries 'n Creme. Already the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly 20 percent of U.S. children ages six to 11 are overweight.

The Chickin Feed Primer, A useful companion for modern families (retail $24.95) gives solid information about nutrition and features "mom-sense" on shopping and stocking the pantry, as well as yummy recipes for every meal of the day, along with old-school P.E. moves and creative Drama-cize to keep the whole family moving.

The Nutrition Tracking Board and The Primer are available at select retail locations and directly through Chickin Feed via www.chickinfeed.com or by calling 404-643-9652.

ABOUT CHICKIN FEED

Atlanta-based Chickin Feed was launched in 2007 after Mother Hen developed the Nutrition Tracking Board to help her family be more conscious about their food choices. Chickin Feed provides parents with simple, fun tools to engage and educate their chickins, as well as themselves about healthy eating and activity. For more information, please visit www.chickinfeed.com or contact Mother Hen, Leslie Smith Grant at 404-643-9652.