My food mistake and breaking habits
One food mistake that I made with my children is that I ever let them have sugary yogurt. It’s nothing of what yogurt was meant to be. It’s dessert, and in the world of desserts, not a very good dessert.
I like plain yogurt for myself, almost always with fruit, bluberries and bananas being my favorite, banana on the bottom, blueberries dropped on top.
Today we brought home raw honey from the grocery store. After their eggs at lunch, I put their little plates of yogurt in front of them with a spoon of honey drizzled on and around, their banana on the side. (Arwen got blueberries ‘cause I know she’ll eat them.)
After lunch Savannah got to call her girlfriend. She left a clean plate and bounced off to her room asking her friend, “Have you ever had white (plain) yogurt with honey?”
While the girls enjoyed it, I had a drama with Seth. I’ve also made the mistake of occasionally giving them their food during their tv time. But the pause button will help me fix that. The girls came to the table without a problem. Seth wanted his food in front of Chicken Run, and he whined until he was sent to his room. No whining while we’re trying to enjoy our food. I’ve gobbled down two many bowls of cereal hearing crying babies waiting to be picked up. If I’m going to eat, I’m going to enjoy it. Then Seth trashed his room. He’s just giving me ammunition. He can’t go back to the movie until he eats, and he can’t eat until he picks up the toys he threw.
He finally picked up and asked if he could eat at the kitchen table instead of the dining table. I gave in because I know he needs to feel as if he’s won something. I sat with him and watched him enjoy everything. Plain yogurt is weird to people who’ve never had it. I had my first bite when I was 21 and thought it tasted like sour cream, only because I thought it would be like frozen sweet yogurt. Honey makes it slip right down. He even insisted on scooping up the yogurt with the banana slices. Do you know the milestone this is to a 4 year old boy? A boy who won’t let his peas touch his pasta? At the end I showed him how to use the length of his finger to run around the edge of the plate to get the excess that the spoon misses :)’
Savannah was curious as to why I wanted so much to watch him eat it all? I said that when you’re a mother, and your children aren’t eating well, it makes you very unhappy. I can’t describe it. I know the world won’t end, but habits get formed so quickly, and often never broken. But when they’re eating healthy, it will make you so happy.
