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.
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.
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awesome! I cant tell you how excited I am for your new blog! And a book? I want your book too! So I am on a mission too, I am going to try to start assimilating gluten free food into Austin's diet, any ideas of a good gluten free bread? Thats where I would like to start anyway...Hope you are doing so good!
ReplyDeleteI dont know why you cant see my comment I posted, but mmy main question for you is have you found a good gluten free bread?
ReplyDeleteI figured out the problems with the font color. Sorry about that. I will post tomorrow a recipe I've been working with for bread (tomorrow's bread day so I'll have pictures too etc). It's good to here from you. Do you have a wheat grinder?
ReplyDeleteNo I dont have a wheat grinder, but I am worried he is allergic to wheat gluten...so is it another kind of grain? So far I have tried rice bread, but it has a way weird texture and spelt! I was so excited about spelt cuz it seemed like the perfect alternative, but found out its still wheat? Let me know! Aust has food sensitivy too! This is hard! How do you do it! I was thinking of taking him to an iridologist to see what he needs and doesnt need in his diet, what do you think?
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