What’s in your house tonight?
We’re having steamed and seasoned brussel sprouts and white beans!
My toddler loves it 😍
He’s also having his juice which I made (kale, cucumber, celery, cabbage, apples, lemon and ginger)
No more processed foods for us.
Anything that comes in a bag, box, or can is likely bad for you.
We shop from our local farmers markets and make sure the food itself is local, organic, and fresh!
We’re dairy free and eat mostly vegan but we do have meat occasionally.
It’s soooo possible to get your kids to eat healthy WHOLE foods. The foods that are marketed to kids is just crazy. I promise they can eat something other than chips, chicken nuggets, fast food, etc. don’t give them options. What I like to do is give my son a very small serving of what we’re having and have him watch that I’m eating the same and that I like it. He tries anything I give him with this “technique” although he doesn’t always like it that’s okay, he at least tried. Whatever he does like he can have as much as he wants because all of his options are GOOD options.
This is not a mom shaming post. I’ve learned a lot and have fed him bad foods too. I didn’t think it could be so easy I’ve always been conscious of his diet but did allow “eat something healthy first and you can have a cookie” or whatever unhealthy thing he wants or someone would like to offer him. I’m cutting it out COMPLETELY. There for sure healthy alternatives to the “bad foods” we enjoy and are kids enjoy. But food is for fuel first! What we put inside our body greatly affects our health.
You can eat right on a budget!
If you have time to check in on FB, social media, watch tv, etc. you have time to make a change, cook a meal.
As moms we have a lot of influence on what future health looks like because we’re raising the next generation!
I recommend wellness momma podcast available on n Spotify and iTunes! Lots of good information there. Also I recommend you do your own research and question everything. Just because a food label says “healthy, organic” doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Just because a doctor gives advice doesn’t mean it’s right.
Комментарии
I’m vegan as well and really like the idea of my kids eating what I eat, but they just don’t like it all. They do eat pretty healthy, but are still picky so I just find the healthy things they like and give it to them over and over. They have unhealthy stuff too though. As someone who grew up in a food/weight obsessed household, I think it’s about balance. My diet in the past was always either excess or deprivation and I don’t want that for my kids. They know that certain foods make you faster and you should eat lots of those and other foods are full of sugar and you shouldn’t have too much or you won’t feel well.
Just curious, how do you feel about when they go to school and snacks are provided, or treats for school parties and friends bday parties?
I think those are good points and I definitely agree that kids are allowed to have their likes and dislikes.
Right now my son doesn’t really have much of an opinion or really have an idea of what could be good or bad for him so it comes down to what I give him and how he reacts. I try to provide a variety at meal times so he has choices. But I do try to get him to try everything. And like I said in my post that’s just by me eating the same food in front of it, talking about it saying I like it. He pretty much always tries it but doesn’t have to keep eating it if he doesn’t want to. He ate most of his brussel sprouts but really loved the beans so he has more of the beans. While he’s eating I name the foods on his plate so he knows what they are called and to ask for more of whatever he wants.
We are dairy free and he has been dairy free since birth and I’ve tried offering him things like, 3 milk cake, ice cream when he was maybe 1.5 and it just did not agree with him at all so I probably would ask the school not to give him dairy along with other parents, teams, etc. I even have a problem with dairy myself. But I also don’t like to unnecessarily limit our diet even with myself which is where the kind of “partial vegan” comes from, I like to go out to eat but I don’t like looking at a menu and not having very many options, self-limiting myself. And I don’t expect my son to either. So our at home life is different than our restaurant life, or a guest in someone else’s home life. I guess right now my position is decision making because he’s so small but when he can have an opinion about his body I want him to think freely about stuff like food I hope the lifestyle I choose to live is something he wants as well and I hope I’ll be able to do that by keeping an open dialogue about food and why we eat the way we do, why there are different reasons for eating different foods, etc. I just won’t cater to him I don’t agree with making special meals for him to get him to eat as he gets older I’ll make it to where he’s eating what’s made or fresh fruit.
Basically what I included is our at home life. We don’t do fast food. But we do go out to eat. And there are times he is with my in laws there are Mexican traditions or customs like cookies and milk(he substituted almond milk), maizena, tres leches for birthdays, etc. that I’m also not going to take away from him and those are things I’d consider unhealthy and unwanted for myself. Even TV he doesn’t watch it, but his tia likes to sing Spanish songs and videos from YouTube so that’s fine because I want him to have his own way of bonding with other family members, and we have are own ways to bond, stay busy. I don’t feel like it’s my choice to make. As long as it’s not something that’s a threat to his health or well being.
As someone who has been vegan and as organic as possible for a year and gained 20lbs, I encourage you not to let your child eat as much as he wants of food just because it’s “healthy”. Excess is excess even if it’s plant based, box free and organic. Healthy choices are good and I’m glad that you are teaching your son healthy habits, but balance and moderation are important even with unprocessed foods.
Yep definitely, eating as much as he wants in terms of the meal we’re having. Not in general but I get what you’re saying!
That’s awesome!!! I want to know how it’s going when they’re 4 and 2!
@avahcruz, yes. Thank you and you’re pregnant... in 2 years you will have 2; ages 4 and 2
@phoebesmommy, not sure what you’re trying to get at. I’ll still be applying the same habits. If it doesn’t work for you, think it’s unattainable or whatever, okay. A year ago I thought the same. Try it or don’t 🤷🏻♀️ my hopes is for someone to come across my post and consider changing something. Because I’ve been on that side as well.
@avahcruz, 👍 I’m just saying I want to know how it’s going in two years that’s all .
Yesterday I went out with my boyfriend went to watch a movie, me and him don't live together yet. but point is yesterday when he was dropping me off his like sleep over at my house witch the mom and dad lives. I said no,
his response was why is everyone deciding or making choices for you and their going to do the same with the baby, when I know that's not true. what he thinks is that my mom tells me not to sleep over. So he left all mad. and I felt in my heart that he went on and cheated on me...
Moms,
We wanted to take a minute to welcome all our new users from BabyBump! We are so happy to have you with us, and we welcome you into our loving community of moms and moms-to-be!
We want to let you know that mom.life is exclusively offering to migrate your posts and photos from Baby Bump so you don't lose your precious moments by switching apps!
Here is the form for migrating your BabyBump data. If you would like us to migrate it to your mom.life profile, please fill it out as soo...
Starting TWW. Anyone else?
I had a stillborn daughter at 38 weeks this passed Nov. This is my second month ttc. (Last month we only tried for like two weeks though). My last and only pregnancy, I got pregnant the first month of ttc so I hope it's quick this time again.
❤️Getting to know you❤️
Since our May group is growing strong and we have a lot of new mommies joining and sharing their bfp's...Thought it will be fun to get to know each other as we all share our pregnancy journey!
We are vegan but for ethical reasons and health reasons. We apply this to our clothing and lifestyle as well, beauty and cleaning products all clean and natural.
You’re right it’s not that hard but people still don’t put in the time
You have to think, a lot of people don’t cook, go out, live unbalanced lives. For me being vegan helps me balance life and stress.
Some also live in cities where this can’t happen because of resources. But even Walmart is taking on more vegan products.
Not all vegan products (snacks) are bad and some “regular” snacks are vegan.