Breakfast: oatmeal
Lunch: Cressida had a mini bagel with cream cheese, a mandarin orange, a tomato and some carrots. Dai had a mini bagel with cream cheese, another bagel with cream cheese and 12 chocolate chips for dessert, two mandarin oranges and a tomato. Phyllis had the last of the onion bagels with cream cheese, pickles and mandarin oranges (under duress.)
Dinner: Cross cut beef shanks slow cooked with beef broth, herbs and tomatoes, spaghetti squash (prepared in the pressure cooker,) salad, but it turned out we were out of both tomatoes and cucumbers so it was just lettuce, and potatoes.
During dinner, Phyllis asked if I was moving them to a sugar-free diet. I replied that I was not but it opened the door to talking about food. We talked about grass fed meat, we talked about the Western pattern diet, preservatives, refined grains and such. We talked about how to avoid falling victim to the Western pattern diet. We talked about how much sugar the average American diet includes. We talked about preparing our food from whole foods rather than from store canned or from boxes. We talked about eating lots of vegetables. I explained that we started doing a CSA because it isn't just the quantity of vegetables but also the variety that mattered. We talked about diabetes and heart disease and tooth decay all being linked to the Western pattern diet. It was fun because they brought it up, not me so I wasn't preaching but in some ways I was preaching to the choir because that is how they have grown up largely. We read the labels on a few things. We talked about rolled oats versus steel cut. We talked about brown rice versus white - Dai definitely prefers brown but I explained that it was a conscious decision to change our eating habits when we had kids. I am so grateful for their healthy attitudes about food and that I am not forcing it on them, they are thinking. Of course, I am telling them what I think is important and because I am their mom, and they are still little they believe me, but it is still a good feeling.
Lunch: Cressida had a mini bagel with cream cheese, a mandarin orange, a tomato and some carrots. Dai had a mini bagel with cream cheese, another bagel with cream cheese and 12 chocolate chips for dessert, two mandarin oranges and a tomato. Phyllis had the last of the onion bagels with cream cheese, pickles and mandarin oranges (under duress.)
Dinner: Cross cut beef shanks slow cooked with beef broth, herbs and tomatoes, spaghetti squash (prepared in the pressure cooker,) salad, but it turned out we were out of both tomatoes and cucumbers so it was just lettuce, and potatoes.
During dinner, Phyllis asked if I was moving them to a sugar-free diet. I replied that I was not but it opened the door to talking about food. We talked about grass fed meat, we talked about the Western pattern diet, preservatives, refined grains and such. We talked about how to avoid falling victim to the Western pattern diet. We talked about how much sugar the average American diet includes. We talked about preparing our food from whole foods rather than from store canned or from boxes. We talked about eating lots of vegetables. I explained that we started doing a CSA because it isn't just the quantity of vegetables but also the variety that mattered. We talked about diabetes and heart disease and tooth decay all being linked to the Western pattern diet. It was fun because they brought it up, not me so I wasn't preaching but in some ways I was preaching to the choir because that is how they have grown up largely. We read the labels on a few things. We talked about rolled oats versus steel cut. We talked about brown rice versus white - Dai definitely prefers brown but I explained that it was a conscious decision to change our eating habits when we had kids. I am so grateful for their healthy attitudes about food and that I am not forcing it on them, they are thinking. Of course, I am telling them what I think is important and because I am their mom, and they are still little they believe me, but it is still a good feeling.
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