Pieces of Me: food

Thursday, April 15, 2010

The Children's Reaction

Not good. As promised I said I would do a post on how my children are taking this new way of eating healthier. Eh, not ideal. At least tonight's meal didn't go over too well. We made chicken fajitas, cilantro lime rice and black beans, all from the Food Revolution book. Aaron and I thought it was excellent, a restaurant quality meal. Kids not so much. Initially it started good, they each tried everything on their plate, but in the end only ate the tortillas. The new rule is this: Eat what's on your plate, figure out a way to make it edible if you don't eat it as served, OR make yourself a PB&J. That's it. No cereal, no bagel bites, no ice cream. That's it.

They're not going to starve however, I've resurrected a previous idea and they are excited about what they'll find in the muffin tin everyday.

Past Post: New Approach to After School Snack

At least there will be smiles, until dinner that is.

Healthy Living: Moving into Phase 3, it's a big one!

Last month I moved into Phase 2 with my Healthy Living 2010 plan...the food part. The exercise part is going well, I'm doing it regularly...yes, even running. Not to the point I have the urge to enter a race, but getting it done. I started the food journey with what I know works, but got bored and other food started sneaking into the mix. With the recent popularity of Jamie Oliver and his New Food Revolution, I decided to investigate what he had to offer. I'm completely impressed. I love that his focus right now is on the kids and getting them to eat healthy. My ultimate, ultimate goal is not just myself feeling healthy and fit, but for my kids to grow up feeling good and not having to break themselves of the horrible processed food, trans fats, high fructose corn syrup and all the other icky stuff out there.

On Wednesday, Aaron and I spent ALL DAY clearing out the kitchen of basically everything, making a shopping list of what basics we needed (we used the essentials list in Jamie's Food Revolution--beautiful book BTW) and pretty much getting rid of (throwing out and donating) everything else. We had chocolate pudding mix that expired in 2006! If it's not good for us and we're not going to eat it, why store it?

I forgot to take a before picture but here's a couple of afters. We are so proud of what we accomplished!

We got the basics from Jamie's list and the ingredients for tonight's dinner and it really wasn't that expensive. I'm excited and happy to truly learn to cook from the beginning and in a clean way. This is what we are making for dinner tonight, along with cilantro lime basmati rice and black beans...mmmmm.