I hope no one minds if I bring up some of these ancient posts?
I have two girls, 11 and 6, and -- like most of you -- am a busy lady so those convenience dinners...Crock Pot meals and Stoffer's Family Size Lasagne, etc...are sooo tempting. I've found that the more of those I buy the more other junk starts creeping into the house like cookies and goldfish crackers and chips. I guess the more junk you eat the more junk you crave? Of course this has really only happened a lot within the last several months since I started school. I have mended my ways thoughand am phasing out the unhealthy and bringing more good stuff back. Fortunately, my girls aren't used to always having cookies in the house so I have two boxes in there now that they have forgotten about, plus a bag of pretzels, a bag of tortilla chips and a bag of marshmallows. I'll bet I could throw all that away and they'd never notice!
I very rarely tell my kids what to eat or how much -- unless it's figuring how many servings everyone can have -- I just put a lot of good food in the house and on the table and they learn to trust their own bodies. I figure if I don't have junk in the house they can't eat it; it becomes a non-issue.


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and am phasing out the unhealthy and bringing more good stuff back. Fortunately, my girls aren't used to always having cookies in the house so I have two boxes in there now that they have forgotten about, plus a bag of pretzels, a bag of tortilla chips and a bag of marshmallows. I'll bet I could throw all that away and they'd never notice!
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