"Mom, I ate all the food groups!"
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:20 pm
This morning during our rush I hear my 8 year old say excitedly "Mom, I ate all my food groups!" I look over and see a spread for a king and my tiny 55 lb. son beaming a smile to light up the state. I see cereal with too much milk, orange juice, toast with jelly and way too much peanut butter... and one full kid. He was trying to force it down so that he could have all of the food groups, as if missing one would be horrible.
I've always thougt that the whole food group idea is pushed way too much. I was always thin and carefree until I heard in school that you need to have "3 square meals" a day. I probably had up until that point in my life and I was eating what I wanted. I think that we crave what we need if we're not over eating. I actually crave brussel sprouts when I'm hungry... Never when I've just got the munchies and am not hungry. I remember eating 'enough for me' in school and the cafeteria lady telling us that we needed to eat a particular item because it wasn't a good square meal otherwise... like it didn't count unless you had all 4 food groups. I remember also eating potato chips one day and being told that it didn't "count" because it didn't count as one of the food groups. I was told however that chips were bad, but as my concious said that, the adult's words were absorbed however subconciously it was, to believe that chips simply didn't "count". Maybe it was a greedy translation on my part, but I don't feel that every meal has to have every healthy food group in it to be called "good" now either, and it makes me mad to see my son stuffing down his breakfast for his teacher. He varies his breakfasts normally, but might have had just raisin bran with milk... which does contain whole grains, fruit and Dairy/protein. I think that's good. He's a healthy thin to normal weight. I make breakfast for them quite often and try to make healthy stuff. As the generations in my family progress, over the 5 generations that I've observed... we're slowly, steadily getting bigger. Now, before you jump on me for this, I realize that the food pyramid is different and that they keep updating all of that info. but I hate all of those food rules! I think that all of this over-emphasis on what we eat is the main problem and that every food goes through the "good" and "bad" phases and back agian.
That's why I love the NO S way of eating naturally! Thanks Reinhard!!!
I've always thougt that the whole food group idea is pushed way too much. I was always thin and carefree until I heard in school that you need to have "3 square meals" a day. I probably had up until that point in my life and I was eating what I wanted. I think that we crave what we need if we're not over eating. I actually crave brussel sprouts when I'm hungry... Never when I've just got the munchies and am not hungry. I remember eating 'enough for me' in school and the cafeteria lady telling us that we needed to eat a particular item because it wasn't a good square meal otherwise... like it didn't count unless you had all 4 food groups. I remember also eating potato chips one day and being told that it didn't "count" because it didn't count as one of the food groups. I was told however that chips were bad, but as my concious said that, the adult's words were absorbed however subconciously it was, to believe that chips simply didn't "count". Maybe it was a greedy translation on my part, but I don't feel that every meal has to have every healthy food group in it to be called "good" now either, and it makes me mad to see my son stuffing down his breakfast for his teacher. He varies his breakfasts normally, but might have had just raisin bran with milk... which does contain whole grains, fruit and Dairy/protein. I think that's good. He's a healthy thin to normal weight. I make breakfast for them quite often and try to make healthy stuff. As the generations in my family progress, over the 5 generations that I've observed... we're slowly, steadily getting bigger. Now, before you jump on me for this, I realize that the food pyramid is different and that they keep updating all of that info. but I hate all of those food rules! I think that all of this over-emphasis on what we eat is the main problem and that every food goes through the "good" and "bad" phases and back agian.
That's why I love the NO S way of eating naturally! Thanks Reinhard!!!