Nourishing Traditions

[Dace]

Hey, Frootloops now have whole grains! And essential vitamins and minerals, and essential chemicals, too! They are good for you, dontcha know?

Yeah, my kids saw that commercial. Then I made my 7yo read the rest of the ingredients. I was proud of her when she voluntarily put the box back on the shelf. Of course, we don't eat cold cereal here at all, so that helps too.

I have done the same with my kids...nice to see them make the connection between a long list of ingredients and something that is not good for you!

 

[ZohBug]

Hey, Frootloops now have whole grains! And essential vitamins and minerals, and essential chemicals, too! They are good for you, dontcha know?

Yeah, my kids saw that commercial. Then I made my 7yo read the rest of the ingredients. I was proud of her when she voluntarily put the box back on the shelf. Of course, we don't eat cold cereal here at all, so that helps too.

I have done the same with my kids...nice to see them make the connection between a long list of ingredients and something that is not good for you!

Isn't it a proud parenting moment? I used to avoid dealing with the issue by not going down those aisles, but now some of the stores are arranged so that the cereal aisles actually have other things that I need so I can't help but to take the kids with me. I decided that instead of agonizing over it, I'd turn it around and use it as an educational tool which empowers them to make an educated choice about food instead of making it based on avoidance. We also lived without tv for nearly 2 years so they didn't get the commercialism from there, but we can't hide them from it forever. Education goes a long way and better to confront it head on than to run away from it.

 

[Dace]

My 7 yr old has a friend at school whose mom is your typical overweight mom, who hangs out at starbucks nearly everyday with her group of friends. Not that there is anything wrong with either of those, just an observation which leads me to ASSUME certain beliefs on her part about food and diet. Which I admit is completely wrong of me.

Our two girls have on going arguments at lunch about what is healthy. The other child says peanut butter, nuts and cheese are not good for you
Makes my DD crazy....every day she will come home and ask me yet again if something is good for you. The friend eats processed garbage with the low fat label, so she thinks she is eating healthy. Of course us two moms are giving them absolute opposite info!

 

[ZohBug]

MMmm... Starbucks... we had a "playdate" there today with a friend. I ordered hot water and discretely added acv, coconut oil, and raw honey that I'd brought with me. I'm pretty good at it and I always tip them for the hot water since they don't charge me for it. The kids ordered those sandwich thingies with the eggs, mushrooms, and spinach but pulled off the bread-y stuff. Not too bad and they managed to not complain about it not being farm eggs! The bad thing though is that conventional chicken feed has soy so I know that conventional eggs have soy.

My 7yo just has given up on trying to explain a lot of stuff and will say that she's "allergic" to food coloring, HFCS, milk, etc. and that's why she often has to pack her own snacks. She is really allergic to peanut butter and has had a cross reaction to packaged popcorn. My ds is allergic to strawberries. Both of them have "allergic to dairy" on their Medic Alert bracelets but we drink tons of raw milk at home and I've been making cheese and yogurt which we go through at an amazing rate.

My dd got caught up in the whole "fat is bad" thing when she was taking ballet and I kept telling her that fat helped her learn because her brain needs fat. Then one day I stood outside the door and listened in on the "nutrition" lesson their (very thin) ballet teacher gave them. She now takes karate.

 

[Dace]

It is hard swimming upstream all the time. I am not as deep in as you are but even where I am, eliminating most processed foods, my friends think am a bit weird!

 

[ZohBug]

It is hard swimming upstream all the time. I am not as deep in as you are but even where I am, eliminating most processed foods, my friends think am a bit weird!

Fortunately there's always someone who's "further into it" than you are. When my friends call me a "food extremist" I can refer to my friend who eats raw meat and is trying to convince her dh to let her give it to their kids (they have 4 kids ages 4 and under). I gave out honeycomb and kefir grains this year. I took raw milk and homemade vanilla sugar (made with rapadura) to a friend's house for Thanksgiving. They actually liked the raw milk and went through half a gallon before dinner was over! But they wouldn't dare actually ask me for any. Oh nooooo...

Of course, my 3yo will eat liver sauted with onions and apples for breakfast every day if I let him. I can't keep enough liver in the house! And my 7yo loves lamb tongue. I can't have just anybody rummaging through my freezer!

 

[Wifezilla]

Hey, Frootloops now have whole grains! And essential vitamins and minerals, and essential chemicals, too! They are good for you, dontcha know?

DOUBLE

 

[Henrietta23]

Rereading posts and book. Found that a local friend is interested in the book and wants to get together to share ideas. That will be a great way to find more local sources and we can make stuff together. Yay!

 

[Henrietta23]

I have a fresh batch of whole milk yogurt and the most beautiful daikon radish I just picked up at the food co-op. By this time tomorrow I will have yogurt, yogurt cheese, whey and a jar of grated daikon fermenting in the whey.
I'm very content right now. I also have a kabocha squash baking which I will turn into soup tomorrow. But that is not a NT recipe.

 

[FarmerDenise]

I love squash soup. And it is so nice to have a partner to do these things with.