Healthy Living

The other night I was watching a show on TLC about this family with 6yr old twins and 3 yr. old sextuplets. The mom was getting ready to go for a tummy tuck and was preparing food for all of the nights she would be gone (14 days). She was cooking away and saying how she thinks it is so important to be feeding her children healthy food. She sneaks in veggies anywhere she can and tries to give them organic foods when they can afford it. Then she said that the sextuplets had never had fast food. That hit me and I thought, here my kids eat fast food atleast once if not twice a week. But the part that really made me want to change my ways was when she said she is giving her children a gift that they probably will never know is a gift, by teaching them to eat healthy. Bill walked into the room about that time and I said, "What are we doing? We are really messing up in this area." It is all about convience and what the girls like- chicken nuggets, hot dogs, etc. I've barely been offering them fruits and veggies because I know they won't eat them (atleast that is what I thought). Bill said, "Let's throw out all of the junk and start over." I was a little hesitant but knew that was the only way to do this. So that night, we did it. Yesterday was our first day of eating better and it was surprisingly easy. Alyssa was eating strawberries and Bri was eating broccoli. No more snacking on high sugar foods. I know this won't be easy, but I have to think what is best in the long run. If anyone has good recipes or ideas on how to get kids to eat their veggies, I'm open for suggestions. It's exciting but a little sad... I was really craving a bowl of ice cream last night. Pray for us that we will stick with this.