To Health Food, or Not to Health Food…That is the Question

My mom was an Adelle Davis worshipper. We got homemade peanut butter, carrot shakes, Tigers Milk bars and no-nitrate kosher hot dogs. But her health food cram down left me relatively unscathed as far as food phobias go. Old habits die hard, though, and I can’t say Mr. M hasn’t been affected. He is on the same regime my mom put me through, and he is working earnestly to earn an Oscar Myer lunchable.

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I love your take on this subject! While I don’t usually keep junk in the house- I say “usually” because the occasional chips and cookies do slip in sometimes- I don’t forbid junk food either. It’s just very limited. For example- At home, we don’t eat cake and ice cream all the time, but it’s fine at a birthday party. I don’t want my kid to freak out and go junk food crazy when she gets older. I think establishing good, healthy habits is what it’s all about!

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I like your strategy. I will never bake cookies again, lest the neighborhood spawn catch a whiff. We don’t keep soda in the house as a rule, my kids don’t really miss it either. Growing up my husband had cavities galore from only drinking Pepsi, (no water), as soon as he gave it up as a teen, he stopped getting them.

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We are on the SAME page. In fact, I have just written two parts to my “EAT ME” series, which will start posting tomorrow. (watch for it everyone – I did a lot of research. Well, maybe I didn’t but hey – time folds, so it doesn’t matter.)

I completely agree about the neurosis factor. Stress can go a lot farther than inorganic broccoli in making one sick, IMO.

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My two main influences were my grandma who only cooked twice a week, pot roast and bean soup and hid candy in the freezer and my foster mom who fried everything and then fried it again and kept all the used grease to re fry with.

I only started cooking 5 years ago when my middle child came out with a severe milk protein allergy. The problem with having a child with an allergy is that you then begin to read labels. OMFG. I had no idea the crap I was feeding myself before then.

What rules I mostly stick to now:
- snacks are fruits or veggies or nuts
- 1 dessert a day, I don’t care when you have it and yes, sugary cereals, if bought, are for dessert purposes only.
- there will be a colorful veggie eaten with every single meal

Things I do and only occasionally tell my kids about:
- try to make from scratch anything I can
- severe limitation on purchase of product with HFCS and even then I’m sure we are getting a ‘moderate’ amount
- I watch out for the bad fats
- awareness of calories in prepared foods

I’m just going for awareness here. My trailer park family thinks I’m a granola eating (have you seen the calories in that shit?), tree hugging freak because my house isn’t stocked with Doritos.

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I totally agree… but it’s funnier how much healthier kids (parents) seem to eat these days – at least in the Northeast, I should probably add. But I grew up eating such junk it’s not even funny – I don’t let my kids even touch half the stuff I grew up on!

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My mom was sort of a health nut, too, so I’m not sure my kids are that much better off. They certainly don’t think they are…

For DD26, I fed her jar baby food. When DD22 came along, I had one of those electric baby food grinders, and she ate what we ate, and I ground it up.

While they did like their “junk” food in teenage years, both girls love fruit and vegetables (they get the veggie part from their dad).

Oh, and they always had their friends over here, and making cookies together was a big part of their childhood memories.

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