If Chloe had her way, she would live on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She loves them and if I dare to give her cheese instead, she just won’t eat it! To get her to eat cheese, I may put in on the side! She will eat soup with her PB&J and I have found various other creative things to add to her staple diet of PB&J sandwiches, which incidentally is only a lunch time obsession!!
Every lunch time I have something to feel guilty about… if I do give her what she wants, then she is not getting a very healthy meal, if I don’t, I have an unhappy bunny on my hands.
As well as the PB&J battle, there is the cereal battle. How many of you out there have kids that want to eat cereal for dinner? How many of you would like to confess that you have taken the easy option and given them cereal for dinner? I have!!
And thus we have the topic for today’s post… “Healthy Eating”.
I have a desire to feed my kids healthy, wholesome, meals every time they sit at the table, I have come to the conclusion that in order to do that I would have to spend considerably more money in the grocery store, shop 3 or 4 times a week to keep things fresh and be constantly cooking. (As super healthy meals tend to take longer to cook, than a 15 minute frozen pizza!) Now I love to cook so that would not be a problem for me, however, that may be more realistic when all the kids are in school! I do cook every night of the week, we do eat out a little but an average week is me cooking a simple dinner every night.
So since waiting for them all to be in school is not an option, I have to commit now to make the change, I have a cookbook buried somewhere that I will dig out and as of today, (after we have eaten the pizza in the fridge…) I publicly announce that my family will be healthy eaters from now on!!
With that said, I want you to join me, or if you are already a healthy eating family, will you help me? I am going to start a recipe page, please feel free to contribute your favorite healthy recipes, and we can comment after we have tried them.
Almost one in six American children and teens are overweight, according to the U.S. Surgeon General’s office, which also warns that 70 percent of overweight teens will grow into overweight or obese adults. Overweight children are now increasingly at risk for type 2 diabetes, a disease formerly associated only with adults. Kids carrying extra pounds may also have a higher risk of developing low self-esteem or depression.
“Were now seeing an epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus in children,” said Dr. Brenda Kohn, a pediatric endocrinologist at the New York University Medical Center. She noted that other disorders, such as high cholesterol, are also on the rise in heavier youngsters.
From U.S. News and World Report Website.
1 in 5 U.S. kids has high cholesterol
Thu, Jan 21, 2010 (HealthDay News) — Twenty percent of U.S. children and teens have abnormal lipid levels, an indication of too much bad cholesterol, too little good cholesterol or high triglycerides, federal health officials report.
These abnormal levels can raise the risk for heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
BabyCenter.com
And so it is with these worrying facts that I will leave you for today, lets do this together and though I can’t promise to never make another peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich ever again, I can certainly feel more relaxed doing it, knowing she has had her veggies the night before!
Happy cooking!
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