A fun day yesterday.
I had three things on my list for the afternoon, but only did one of them. Also, no sewing took place this weekend.
The HGP this week is having us clean the kids’ rooms. My kids are too old for me to clean their rooms, even if I would like to, so I am going to catch up on a previous week’s assignment by cleaning out my closets.
It’s time to throw out all the things with holes in them. I am very bad about that. My husband is worse than I am. The kids buy clothes with holes in them already.
A dark chocolate and kiwi fruit torte. I had to make it in order to practice with the new torte pans I received on Saturday. I don’t have to eat it, of course.
The place where #1 daughter works tells their customers this: prepare your family’s meals as you normally do, and then eat your own with them, ignoring the fact that their food is luscious and yours is austere.
#1 daughter claims that their food wasn’t that good to begin with, so it’s not that much of a loss.
My doctor said to feed my family health food, too, because they would thank me later.
Which piece of advice is more realistic?
IMHO, neither piece of advice is realistic.
I’m with ozarque. I think a combination of the above is a good idea. Make regular meals – low-fat a few things (e.g., cheese, milk, pudding, lean meats, etc) and eat smaller portions. Preparing your family’s meals like normal is fantastically unrealistic unless someone has A LOT of willpower. I eat what I normally ate before, but less of it – and with lower fat products. I lost 25 pounds that way. Worked for me. Now, the last 10 – 15 pounds (or whatever) will be exercise because I have been maintaining the 25 pounds loss. THAT says something to me (that I am doing well with my food consumption and portions).
What pasta dish is that in your top picture? It looks yummy. I think it’s best to cook good for the whole family, and if they want to skip out on the extra helping of vegetables, then they should. Sitting down with some teeny tiny portion of frozen food is just too hard. We had salmon and wild rice and corn and salad last night. My oldest son ate it all. My youngest son ate a cheese sandwich. My middle son was at a movie eating a packet of red vines for dinner. It’s a challenging thing (preparing healthy meals) for sure.
hey that’s fruit in those pictures, where’d it come from?
I cook what I like (when I cook) and that’s all there is to it, if you don’t like it too bad, but it is very different now cooking for 3 as compared to cooking for 5.
oh my god that stuff up there looks delicious. my diet is rather spartan and leaves much to be desired in terms of taste-factor, but its high in nutrition and low (perhaps too low) in caloric value. but i feel good because of it, if only constantly hungry.
Did you eat it? At least there is kiwi on there. That’s healthy. TKinOKC always said if it has oatmeal in it, it’s health food. That’s my motto, too. And banana bread or zucchini bread – health food. Of course you can always make it better by using whole wheat flour and whole sugars, but if you go too far down that road, nobody will eat it.
It’s hard when your children won’t eat the healthy food. I’ve started telling people that it doesn’t matter how healthy it is if they won’t put it in their bodies. My mother told me Dr. Phil said if they get hungry enough, they’ll eat it. Dr. Phil doesn’t raise my children. He has no clue.
What’s the pasta dish you made? It looks yummy & we love pasta in my family so I’m always looking for more pasta recipes.