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Originally Posted by MJkate83
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Most people worry about what kind of parents they are going to be ... but I mostly worry about how I'm going to feed them and how to keep them from becoming obese.
My own mother believed in the "finish everything on your plate" ideal with 'balanced' meals according to societal norms. Clearly, this didn't work out for me....
In the future, I would like to find some kind of happy medium with my kids....
I often wonder - how do carb conscious parents feed their kids these days? How do they show them that high sugar/high carb foods should be treats, not a regular part of their diets? Should we be pushing our LC ideals on them if they are perfectly healthy running on a higher carbohydrate diet? They are likely to develop our intolerances... but what if they don't??
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Hi, MJ!
These are great questions. And like raven132, I can't tell you what to do; I can only share what works right now for us. There is no One True LC Parenting Way.
I don't insist that kiddo and hubby eat low carb--I just insist that anything I cook, I be able to eat! And since I do most of the cooking, it works out.
Two exceptions to that:
- Once or twice a month, I'll have an entry on the meal plan that says "Mac n Cheese/Jen ad lib." They love that silly boxed mac n cheese, and it's cheap and easy to make. So I give them a treat (and myself a break) and make it for them, while I cobble together some healthy leftovers for me. (Lately, though, more and more of that mac n cheese has gone uneaten....)
- The toddler gets a cup of sugar-laden chocolate milk several nights a week, and sometimes I make it for her. I'm getting more and more horrified at what we're teaching her with this; I plan on trying my hand at making a sugar-free version after this batch gets used up!
We let the child have French fries, and share root beer floats with Daddy, and all sorts of objectionable things. But we also set limits on how often we do that. We never insist that she clean her plate, she and I are doing extended breastfeeding, and she has a long list of veggies that she likes. (One of her favorite snacks is black olives.)
So far her meats are bacon, sausage, chicken, and fish, with only an occasional willingness to eat beef. But we'll get there.
Too early to tell what we'll do about school lunches, since the regulations on those keep changing. We kind of focus on keeping her eating now, and we'll worry about later when it gets here.
But when you have a 2-yr-old who sits in her high chair and proclaims, "I
lo-o-ve celery!" (over and over and over again), I figure you're probably doing something right!