Know what they eat

How will you know if you or your children are getting adequate nutrition if you don't keep track? I have notebooks and notebooks from the past year of food journals. Whenever anyone asks me how to start making changes with their eating habits, I tell them to start with a food journal. Just eat normally for a week writing everything down that you eat and an estimate of how many servings. This might be quite shocking because most of us don't realize what we are eating let alone our children. This will give you an idea of what vitamins and minerals are lacking from your family's diet. Most families eat the same thing over and over again. For children who are picky eaters this is most likely the case. I know families that have the same meal every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. Variety is something that we don't see very often in our eating. This lack of variety attributes to deficiency. When deficiencies occur over long periods of time our bodies become weakened resulting in sickness and disease. (More details given in my book... available soon).

So tip of the day. KEEP A FOOD JOURNAL FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR CHILDREN.


Sample of how I set it up!!


DAY___________________________    


Brief Description of day (Here's where I put things like--it was a crazy day, we were out alot or we had a party or we spent the day moving...aka NOT SO GOOD with EATING TODAY)_________________________________________________________________________


Breakfast________________________________________
Snack____________________________________________
Lunch___________________________________________
Snack__________________________________________
Dinner__________________________________________
Snack__________________________________________

This is just a basic idea to get you started.  I will add more description later.  The main thing is write it down.