(Apr. 29, 2011)
Today the world watched The Royal Wedding. It was such a momentous occasion.
This morning for breakfast, I wish I could have done something British like scones or something, but alas, I could not. So we did our standard breakfast of cinnamon rolls. For lunch I made her cinnamon toast with truvia, 1 slice of bacon, and chocolate coconut milk. I was telling Jeannette this morning before she left for school that soon we'll be able to reintroduce fruit back into her diet. I told her that she'll be able to eat strawberries and raspberries again. She said, "no thank you." I looked at her and asked, "why not thank you? Don't you want to eat those again? You liked them before and that will allow you more variety." She said, "No. I don't want them." I said, "why, because you like what you're eating now?" She said, "Yes!" Wow! That shocked me. I couldn't believe it. Here I was getting excited about having more variety in her diet and being able to have more options, and she doesn't even really care. I guess I have to take that as a good thing.
Today on the way home from work, I was listening to another one of my favorite podcasts, The Meal Makeover Mom's. They take unhealthy meals and make them family friendly, yet healthy. Since I've been on this new road of healthy eating, I find their blog and podcasts to be extremely helpful. They are both registered dietitians with two kids and really have some yummy meal ideas that I can't wait to try. Today's podcast they were interviewing a woman who has dedicated her life to helping kids eat healthier. She has a web-site called Super Kids Nutrition. There are activities on the site that are educational and teach you and your kids about nutritious eating and making nutrition fun. The subject of today's podcast was "Eating the Rainbow." How does one do that? It's simple. You try eating a variety of colors that provide healthy foods to your kids. The importance of eating a colorful diet comes from all the different phytochemicals that provide additional benefits outside of your antioxidants and we all need those different colors because they act in different ways. These phytochemicals can help "fight" off viruses and bacterias. They help keep us at a healthy weight.
Another fun thing on her web-site are the super crew kids. They are cartoon characters kids who help motivate kids to eat a colorful diet. For example; Penny gets her power from purple foods. When she eats these foods she can run at super speeds. Abigail gets her super powers when she eats all sorts of colors from fruits and vegetables. When she eats carrots, she can see around corners. Blueberries can make her super smart. The educational tools on the site are also very helpful. They teach kids math and science and even teachers can incorporate these tools into their daily curriculum while teaching kids proper nutrition. It really is a great web-site for kids of all ages. I highly recommend it to be checked out.
I forgot, along with all the other supplements that Jeannette is taking, she started taking a liquid multi-vitamin today. What's complicated about this one is that there are so many instructions on how to take it. I has to be taken twice a day. It has to be before breakfast, 1/2 capful, and then afterwards it has to be followed 8 oz. of non-chlorinated, spring water. After it's taken, no OTC medicines can be taken within 2 hours of taking this. Then in the evening, it needs to be taken before 6pm. How in the heck am I supposed to administer this with everything else she is taking? The one advantage to this multi-vitamin is that it doesn't have all those artificial flavorings. It's better for her than the generic multi-vitmain from Target or even the Flinstone vitamins for that matter. It's called IntraKid. The second thing I started her on was Chlorella. Chlorella is another way to help with the detoxification process. It helps boost immunity, energy, focus, and improves digestion, relieves constipation, etc. I would like to think this could help with her constipation as well as help eliminate the mercury, lead, arsenic, and cadmium that is found in her system. Chlorella was also recommended because the nutritionist felt it was a more natural solution instead of the miralax I was using before. The only way I could think of incorporating it into her diet was to include it in her shake. So tonight, I put it in the shake. Boy! It turned the shake a horrible brownish color. It looked disgusting. I give her a lot of credit to even drink something like that. She didn't even say a word. She took a sip and asked if there was more chocolate in it and I lied and said yes. I figured that would explain the more brownish color? She said, "it's good. Better than the one daddy made last night." Phew!!!
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