When my friend Christa's children reached the age that they wanted to pack their own lunches, she did a little happy dance (you should see it...quite funny). She soon learned that it meant pack a bag with as much junk food as you can find to her kids. She came up with a rule, your meal must have at least 4 different colors of the rainbow in it. Examples she used were RED apple, GREEN broccoli, ORANGE carrots, BLUE blueberries. She told them that whites were freebies, like pieces of bread or string cheese. They could add those without worry, but still had to have 4 colors. This worked like a charm and soon her kids were packing nutritious lunches. Her daughter came home one day telling her how she lines the colors out for her friends at the table and now her friends are doing it too. What a great way to make healthy eating fun! Try it.
What food have you given your kids a "you don't have to eat it" pass on because it looked so nasty, you wouldn't eat it? Baby food doesn't count, it all looks gross. :-)
Where do I start? My mother-in-law is the worst cook ever. I am glad my husband admits it. When she comes over to visit from 3 hours away, she cooks for us. I use the term cook loosely. When she leaves after a day or two, we take the kids out and just binge of whatever. No one eats when Nana is around!
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