While healthy eating remains a top priority for parents, childhood obesity continues to be a growing issue. It's simply not realistic to believe that kids will shun all junk foods but we can help them to balance the empty nutrients with a big dose of healthy good for you foods.
This week Warner Brothers and
MomLogic are asking the following questions that have to do with teaching kids healthy choices
How do you teach your kids about healthy eating choices? What works for your family?
These were some questions that I had to really think about this week. I am always trying to get
Golfergirl to eat healthy. She does make some choices on her own. She only drinks water, milk or
kool aid. She does not drink soda at all. She says it is gross. The problem is she will be drinking her water while she eats all the chocolate she can get her hands on and chips. She never was to happy about eating her vegetables. This summer I had an idea that since I was not working we would plant a garden. This way she would have a hand in
raising the
veggies so maybe she would be better at eating them. She was so excited to begin this process. She got to help pick out all of the items that were planted. She thought she was so big getting to help make these decisions. We ended up planting ,
Tomato's, corn, peppers, lettuce, cucumbers, squash and several other
veggies.
Golfergirl worked in the garden almost everyday. She could not wait for the
veggies to be ready to pick. Now, she did not like all of the
veggies that we planted. I was not expecting her to but the important thing was that she tired each of them. She learned that she loves
tomato's, and peppers. Before the garden she would not even try them.
I would
recommend planting a garden to everyone. I have gotten a lot closer to
Golfergirl since I we have been working on this project. It gave us some one on one time and we talked about what it takes to get a garden to grow. She looked up information on the
Internet and would be sure what kind of
fertiliser that was needed for each
veggie. She was very into it this year and can not wait to do it again next year.
This is what works for our family. Let me know what works with yours. I am always looking for more ideas because she will still chose fries over apple slices
every time at the fast food
restaurants.
The winners to the Wizards of Waverly Place CD are:
The winner of the Bake Me A Wish cake is:
I have always loved Sam's Club but we have been on a budget and the $40 membership was not fitting in right now. I know we could save money at Sam's but the initial cost was more than I was willing to give up right now. We also collect box tops for Golfergirls school. When I was given a chance to not only join Sam's Club but also a chance to earn more box tops, I jumped at the chance. My Blog Spark joined with Sam's Club and Box Top for Education to bring this promotion.
Looney Tunes Eating Right Kids Gift Basket
1Chewy Bar with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
Vol. 3 sniffs serves up Episodes 9-12- in the order aired- of Scooby's Doo's original Saturday morning series. The four episodes include, " The Backstage Rage","Bedlam in the Bigtop","A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts" and "Scooby-Doo and a Mummy,Too"
