Honestly, we have a lot of bad food habits and hang ups (as a culture, whatever). My kids LOVE fruits and veggies, although Bryn doesn't like berries of any sort. Bryn is a salad freak and will often choose to have salad over peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Another thing is that we don't have a lot of junk food in the house. In fact, we still have HALLOWEEN CANDY (and Yule candy) that the kids haven't eaten.
We eat what we like even bad stuff, but we try to make sure that "bad stuff" portion sizes are reasonable. Ice cream? Check. Soda (yup, the kids drink cherry 7-up and root beer because they love it, but no more than one a day (and usually not even that much) because it is a treat, not a staple) and juice? Check
Favorite veggies? asparagus, brocolli and sweet potatoes.
Also, Both children have their own cookbooks that they can choose recipes to help make. That and we did hang up the food pyramid on the fridge for a long time to teach them what they need... And us, too.
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Date: 2009-03-21 04:45 pm (UTC)Another thing is that we don't have a lot of junk food in the house. In fact, we still have HALLOWEEN CANDY (and Yule candy) that the kids haven't eaten.
We eat what we like even bad stuff, but we try to make sure that "bad stuff" portion sizes are reasonable. Ice cream? Check. Soda (yup, the kids drink cherry 7-up and root beer because they love it, but no more than one a day (and usually not even that much) because it is a treat, not a staple) and juice? Check
Favorite veggies? asparagus, brocolli and sweet potatoes.
Also, Both children have their own cookbooks that they can choose recipes to help make. That and we did hang up the food pyramid on the fridge for a long time to teach them what they need... And us, too.