- TEDtalk with Jamie Oliver video on youtube. "It really gets you aware of how much we're eating and how the wrong stuff can really hurt people." "ow."
- Print out your school lunch and breakfast menu after watching the video and circle the healthy stuff and cross out the unhealthy stuff (we don't eat school lunch, but it helps with awareness).
- Look at the foods/recipe categories listed on the NY Times Recipes for Health page and note which ones you eat and which ones you are willing to try.
- Part of being a healthy eater is learning how to cook. All our cookbooks are packed away right now because our house is under construction so we've been looking on-line for recipes and ideas. So far Fiona's favorite one is Eating Well's Healthy Kids recipes (a bit meat heavy in the main course department, but plenty of side dishes listed below). I should note we haven't tried any of these recipes yet, but she finds the presentation appealing (half the battle, in my opinion) and she's going to go through and pick some out for us to make together.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Fiona recommends
Fiona has been getting into the idea of eating a more diverse selection of foods and making sure they are healthy foods, too. Here are some of her recommendations.
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Gee, my kids have easten chool lunch virtually every day of their life and our school district offers great choices. Not too worried about it, I guess I am lucky
ReplyDeleteConsider yourself lucky. Chartwells, which runs the food service at my kids' school, generally serves the same old crap of hot dogs, chicken nuggets and pizza and just dolls it up with a multigrain bun to call it healthy. The only good thing I can say is there is a daily fruit and vegetable bar that any kid can have, even if they don't buy school lunch. But have my kids ever visited it? nope.
DeleteTry fruit and vegetable kabobs on the kids. I saw it on "the tube" this weekend. If I had a child (besides our beloved "sparky"), it might get them interested in trying some new things.
ReplyDeleteI tried this when they were little, but now they see through the novel presentation to hone in on the undesirable food below. In some ways it's easier working with a 9 and 11 year olds since you can reason with them, but in some ways it's a little harder. They get really mad if I try and "trick" them into eating vegetables by blending stuff into familiar foods, too. Granted, I could refrain from informing them, but that kind of defeats the purpose of making them consciously healthy eaters.
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