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Post by gs11rmb on Apr 27, 2017 8:01:36 GMT -5
I remember when I had my first child I read all this stuff about all you have to do is offer healthy foods and over time your child will acquire a taste for all the wonderful vegetables in the world. My girls are now 8 and 4 and I've come to the conclusion that eating advice is a lot like sleeping through the night advice. Just because it worked for YOUR child doesn't mean it will work for every child. I cook almost every night from scratch without using canned ingredients and never have frozen ready-meals in the house. My girls' diet consists of frozen chicken nuggets, cheese quesadillas, mac and cheese and the occasional hot dog. My youngest does like scrambled eggs. They will eat the occasional piece of fruit if they are in the mood but the only vegetable they will eat is a mashed potato. I don't know how they don't have rickets or scurvy!
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Apr 27, 2017 8:35:19 GMT -5
So gs11rmb - how do you think it happened? School? Friends? My oldest had the cleanest diet until my IL's introduced him to McD on his second bday. Nothing store bought except organic baby yougurt. But now he is the one who could live on chicken nuggets and frozen meals from TJ and McD. How does that happen He is not even in school!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 27, 2017 8:37:06 GMT -5
My brother lived on potatoes and scrambled eggs growing up. At 27 he's teaching my mom how to prepare salmon and tofu.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 8:43:47 GMT -5
My one brother would eat almost nothing but PB&J and pizza. He's 41 now and and has been a health food and exercise nut for probably the past 15 years. There is seriously not an ounce of fat on this guy. He is just all muscle.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Apr 27, 2017 8:52:53 GMT -5
I am beginning to think that 99.99% of all the wonderful, healthy things we teach and do for our children, we do it to make ourselves feel better. Their future is such a crap shoot.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Apr 27, 2017 8:56:35 GMT -5
My 7 yo told me yesterday that he drank white milk instead of chocolate milk yesterday at latchkey because "it's healthier".
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 27, 2017 9:00:13 GMT -5
I am beginning to think that 99.99% of all the wonderful, healthy things we teach and do for our children, we do it to make ourselves feel better. Their future is such a crap shoot. I think a lot more of it comes down to individual personality that we allow ourselves to admit. Cause if we're going by all the doom and gloom rules about diet my brother should be 600 pounds by now instead o of a skinny as a rail health nut. I'll also admit my diet has gotten worse after having kids. It's really easy to slip into the trap of getting fast food instead of cooking. DH and I are working to break that habit but it's harder than I thought it would be considering I never used to eat all that much of it growing up. The funny thing is the kids themselves don't eat all that much. DH and I eat way more if you count the crap we sometimes get for lunch. Cutting that out alone should dramatically help our budget and our health. I have perfect numbers but that ain't going to last forever if I keep it up.
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Post by gs11rmb on Apr 27, 2017 9:26:53 GMT -5
So gs11rmb - how do you think it happened? School? Friends? My oldest had the cleanest diet until my IL's introduced him to McD on his second bday. Nothing store bought except organic baby yougurt. But now he is the one who could live on chicken nuggets and frozen meals from TJ and McD. How does that happen He is not even in school! Both my girls went to daycare and they did provide food that was made on site. Fairly healthy but also bland and, my youngest in particular, would eat the bread roll and not much else. Her teachers would tell me if she actually tried something and then I'd rush out to make sure we had it in the house and she'd refuse to eat . I don't think the occasional chicken nugget or cheese quesadilla is bad but when that's all they'll eat it is problematic. The other side of the coin is the advice not to make food a battle as you don't want your daughters to have an unhealthy relationship with food. So, good parents are supposed to offer and encourage healthy food but not force their children to eat things they don't like... it doesn't work both ways!
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Post by ohmomto2boys on Apr 27, 2017 9:44:54 GMT -5
My kids rarely have fastfood. It isn't because it is unhealthy, we just don't eat out very often. They were both about 3 or 4 the first time they had McDonalds. Now, if we do get fastfood it is Taco Bell or Wendy's. They both like soda, but again, don't have it very often.
Do they eat a bunch of unhealthy stuff? They sure do. Treats are not treats when you eat them every day....cookies, donuts, candy, etc.
Luckily they are not very picky eaters and will eat/try different things. Everything in moderation.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 9:45:17 GMT -5
So gs11rmb - how do you think it happened? School? Friends? My oldest had the cleanest diet until my IL's introduced him to McD on his second bday. Nothing store bought except organic baby yogurt. But now he is the one who could live on chicken nuggets and frozen meals from TJ and McD. How does that happen He is not even in school! My great-nephew was fed mostly home-cooked, "clean" foods, but then he went to daycare. They served Spaghetti-Os, chicken nuggets and all the other junk his parents avoided. Now they actually make separate food for him at family gatherings- we may be eating good stuff made from scratch by family members and they heat up mac and cheese for him. Not my kid and, in general, they're good parents, but if it were my son I would have said, "what they serve at daycare is not what we eat here. You have your choice form whatever we put on the table."
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Apr 27, 2017 9:50:29 GMT -5
So gs11rmb - how do you think it happened? School? Friends? My oldest had the cleanest diet until my IL's introduced him to McD on his second bday. Nothing store bought except organic baby yougurt. But now he is the one who could live on chicken nuggets and frozen meals from TJ and McD. How does that happen He is not even in school! Both my girls went to daycare and they did provide food that was made on site. Fairly healthy but also bland and, my youngest in particular, would eat the bread roll and not much else. Her teachers would tell me if she actually tried something and then I'd rush out to make sure we had it in the house and she'd refuse to eat . I don't think the occasional chicken nugget or cheese quesadilla is bad but when that's all they'll eat it is problematic. The other side of the coin is the advice not to make food a battle as you don't want your daughters to have an unhealthy relationship with food. So, good parents are supposed to offer and encourage healthy food but not force their children to eat things they don't like... it doesn't work both ways! You're doing fine. Like I said, I hit a goldmine with my kid. Maybe because it was something I did but likely it's just how it worked out. She never sleeps if it's any consolation!
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Post by MJ2.0 on Apr 27, 2017 10:39:32 GMT -5
Today I made DS boiled egg whites, whole grain (with lots of seeds and fiber) buttered toast, a cutie, and milk for breakfast. He ate all of it and wanted more eggs and cuties! That makes me feel good after the hot dogs and croissants we had last night. Again, I'm concerned more with overall diet than each piece of food.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 10:44:52 GMT -5
My older son made a smoothie for breakfast. Milk, some chocolate protein pack, banana, peanut butter and a chocolate chip cookie. Younger had Waffle Crisp cereal. He eats a good lunch, and getting him to eat ANYTHING at 6am on a weekday is a challenge, so I just let him have the cereal.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Apr 27, 2017 10:45:49 GMT -5
Today I made DS boiled egg whites, whole grain (with lots of seeds and fiber) buttered toast, a cutie, and milk for breakfast. He ate all of it and wanted more eggs and cuties! That makes me feel good after the hot dogs and croissants we had last night. Again, I'm concerned more with overall diet than each piece of food. You are such overachiever My children had DD bagels.....
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Post by Lizard Queen on Apr 27, 2017 11:04:14 GMT -5
My kids had poptarts. They had been on an oatmeal kick, but that ended. YDS usually only eats half--doesnt like to eat much early either. For school lunch, ODS has pb&j on whole wheat bread, a cheese stick and a caprisun every single day. I don't know how he can stand it, but it makes packing his lunch easy. I used to send a bottle of apple juice, but he'd barely touch it most days. The caprisun packaging ensures he'll drink all of it. I don't know how he can stand to go all day barely drinking anything, but he will. Weird kid.
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 27, 2017 11:28:46 GMT -5
Today I made DS boiled egg whites, whole grain (with lots of seeds and fiber) buttered toast, a cutie, and milk for breakfast. He ate all of it and wanted more eggs and cuties! That makes me feel good after the hot dogs and croissants we had last night. Again, I'm concerned more with overall diet than each piece of food. If you really want to feel better about yourself as a parent, I didn't even feed my kid this morning. I never do.
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 27, 2017 11:29:48 GMT -5
My older son made a smoothie for breakfast. Milk, some chocolate protein pack, banana, peanut butter and a chocolate chip cookie. Younger had Waffle Crisp cereal. He eats a good lunch, and getting him to eat ANYTHING at 6am on a weekday is a challenge, so I just let him have the cereal. He put a cookie in the smoothie?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 11:33:53 GMT -5
My older son made a smoothie for breakfast. Milk, some chocolate protein pack, banana, peanut butter and a chocolate chip cookie. Younger had Waffle Crisp cereal. He eats a good lunch, and getting him to eat ANYTHING at 6am on a weekday is a challenge, so I just let him have the cereal. He put a cookie in the smoothie? Yes, he did. He said it was amazing...
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Post by giramomma on Apr 27, 2017 11:47:03 GMT -5
The kids each had a donut from Dunkin Donuts this morning. ETA: With a protein. Because of course, that makes it so much better.
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 27, 2017 11:54:38 GMT -5
I fed my kid fast food for dinner last night. Where should I pick up my Mother of the Year award?
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Apr 27, 2017 13:29:07 GMT -5
I think it's pizza night tonight. I get home from work at 5, the oldest has a music thing for me to attend at 7 in a location a good 45 minutes from home. I am not going to get anything cooked and fed to everyone in that time frame. I'm not all that sad about having pizza.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Apr 27, 2017 13:40:16 GMT -5
We do Little Caesar's pizza/crazy bread every Thursday. I'm actually sick of it, but the kid don't like anything fancier, and it's easy to know exactly what we're doing for dinner at least one day a week.
This week's schedule is horrible for us: Mon. tball practice, Tues. cub scouts, Wed. bball game, Thur. tball practice, Fri. bball game. So looking forward to Saturday!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 14:13:04 GMT -5
If you really want to feel better about yourself as a parent, I didn't even feed my kid this morning. I never do. I never wanted breakfast as a teenager. I didn't like milk-still don't. So I had a piece of dry toast because Mom insisted. I survived. I'm still not a big breakfast eater. The exception was my travels in India. They know how to do breakfast.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 27, 2017 14:23:28 GMT -5
I didn't eat breakfast as a teenager. I still don't really like it during the work week. Not liking oatmeal or eggs REALLY limits your on the go breakfast options. I like cereal but get sick of it quickly.
I'll eat breakfast on weekends when I can make a proper breakfast such as biscuts and gravy or pancakes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 14:27:08 GMT -5
My teenager always makes himself a big breakfast. It's the little one that is hard to get to eat.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Apr 27, 2017 14:42:41 GMT -5
I don't eat first thing and DD doesn't either. I'll eat something mid morning at work if I have it. (oatmeal mostly) The boys will eat if there's something to eat, the youngest will wait to see if you're cooking (weekends) then be starving and try to eat everything in the house. I don't want to cook first thing any more than I want to eat first thing, so sometimes he's hunting food around the time I'm ready to cook on the weekends.
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Post by 973beachbum on Apr 28, 2017 7:08:27 GMT -5
When the kids were little it was easy. I just put out food and they ate it or not. I did cook almost everything so no frozen nuggets type of thing. I don't even think I ever used boxed mac and cheese. I just made the home made kind. Now that DS is a teenager all bets are off! I still buy whole grain no artificial anything bread and make sure there is real roasted chicken in the fridge for sandwiches and fruit for healthy lunches type of thing. There is still no juice or soda in the house and the only snack food is pretzels. So what do I do everyday? I pull empty soda bottles and candy wrappers out of his book bag and clothes pockets to throw them out.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Apr 28, 2017 9:12:35 GMT -5
Inspired by all your posts, I spent $40 in BJ last night on potato chips and Sargento snacks!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 9:14:28 GMT -5
Inspired by all your posts, I spent $40 in BJ last night on potato chips and Sargento snacks! LOL I picked up a pizza on the way home last night.
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Post by gs11rmb on Apr 28, 2017 9:50:59 GMT -5
My girls had cheese quesadillas... again .
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