The greatest gift you can give your children is a good healthy diet. And that starts with mom and dad living in the LC groove.

My kids are in good health, trim and athletic. COld cereal left the house, except cheerios. Fruit juice was very watered down. Eventually these left the menu too.

Basically I transitioned my kids to the same quality foods as on the Atkins list of allowable foods, even if that meant drowning it in ranch dressing. My 14 year old JUST asked for Italian. The older one still favors ranch. lol

My point is my kids are pretty healthy eaters because I eat healthy. ANd with a good start before sending them off to school, they kids are likely to stick with the good foods while the other kids eat junk.

Good luck with your changes. THink of the kids, and kick the cold cereal out... replace with steak and eggs, like my kids eat.