Comments on: Part Four: Food Science

By: PC

PC — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:54:35 +0000

We went to at least one vegetarian meal a week about 2 years ago and really like it. Usually it ends up being something like black bean soup, pasta, vegetarian chili (like tonight), etc. The funny thing is, saying it out loud seems like this big effort to make sure we remove meat from our diet at least once a week. On the practical side, it’s just choosing a different recipe for one or two nights…none of us really even realize it! I recommend it.

By: lisa

lisa — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:59:27 +0000

katie–we’ll go over snacks in the next post because I need some ideas too. My friend Vivian got me started on crunchies freeze dried fruit. The kids LUH-HUVE them. I do too. Im going to put a request for the commissary to carry them but right now I just order them online. (www.crunchiesfood.com). Supertarget is where my friend gets them…

Also, the fruit snacks (Nathan calls them “gums”) I’ve bought them and they usually get thrown away because they aren’t a big hit. I have bought the Clif Kid twisted fruit (no sugar, just fruit) (http://www.clifbar.com/food/products_clif_kid_twisted_fruit/) and ended up giving them out at Halloween. Nathan just isnt that into the fruit snacks. Anyway– they aren’t cute princess shapes but I think they are kind of tasty (though some flavors are not good).

By: Katie (The Yap)

Katie (The Yap) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:36:56 +0000

I find this so fascinating! I have weird blood sugar, and always have. I do really well with low-carb, protein-rich diets. I feel better. I don’t need as much sleep. I stay slimmer. I don’t have a big sweet tooth, though, and I think people who really like sweets have a hard time with that.

I think if packaging had tsps listed of sugar, instead of grams, that would be eye opening. One tsp of sugar in one Tbsp of ketchup? GOD!

I really struggle with snack time…for me and the kids. We snack. A lot. And it is often granola bars (I buy the kashi type, but they still can’t be that great), peanut butter crackers (bad!), goldfish, pretzels or….(GASP!) “fruit” snacks. I HATE those stupid fruit snacks but Becca will do ANYTHING for them and we’ve gotten in the habit of her having one pack a day to get her to do what I want and I don’t know how to break it! I need better ideas for stuff I can just GRAB as we’re heading out the door and they can eat in the car…..it isn’t like I can feed them cantelope in the car….and I can’t feed a one year old raw carrots or almonds….

I’m trying to completely eliminate HFCS and partially hydrogenated oils. And, actually, I am getting more and more interested in vegetarian options for protein. I want to start having one veg meal per week for family dinner…but of course, I haven’t figured that out yet. I feel guilty for buying the cheap chicken. I feel like I should be buying cage free, antibiotic-free, organic, local grown chicken.

So much to stress about.