Today was better. Smoothie this morning. Added some greens. With its puke green color it didn't look too appetizing but it was very good. Lunch was a boiled egg on wheat bread.
This afternoon I spent an hour chopping vegetables. I didn't mind since this will be for salad for two nights of dinner. I cooked some chicken in olive oil to go on top too. I also picked up some home made sour dough bread from a friend to go on the side. Yummy
We love salad. I'm blessed with kids who like vegetables. When I told the kids it would be salad tonight they were so happy. My older daughter even ate hers with no dressing.
I put each item in its own bowl so everyone got to make their own masterpiece. It was fun. My one big oops is that I forgot to look for a new salad dressing. We ended up using our old ranch dressing this time.
Greg and I wanted to get this thing in full force before we told everyone. We thought 30 days would show a commitment from us so we wouldn't sound hypocritical. Our biggest worry is how the kids would adapt. We don't let them eat a lot of junk food or candy and they like fruits and veggies so that isn't the concern. Its about when we will have to say no they cant have that cookie just because they are cute. We decided that we will let them have birthday cake and sweets at special occasions but not just because their friends are. The girls are in preschool and I pack their lunch but they are provided snack so I'm not sure how we will handle that yet. For now we will just make good choices for them and teach them to make good choices for themselves and just leave everything else the same until we have a solution that makes sense.
Of course today I get a call from the after school care while the girls are there. Once I got over my initial concern and was assured they were okay, the caregiver asked if my youngest could have cake. She has lactose intolerance so they were concerned about the milk. I explained that it wasn't an issue with the milk but I would prefer they didn't have the cake for so many other reasons with one being the food coloring in the frosting. Poor lady was so confused. Apparently she didn't understand what could be wrong with the food coloring. Anyway I said not to give either of my daughters cake. She said "oh no" because my older daughter just ate a little already and my younger daughter was hanging on her every word waiting to hear the go ahead. I am thankful for such good kids who don't get upset over minor things like food. When I picked them up 25 minutes later neither of them seemed too worried about being the only ones not eating the cake.
On the ride home I talked to the girls about how we wont be eating regular cake, cookies, ice cream, and candy anymore. If we have those things it will be something special that mommy made. They seemed okay with it. Again its not a big big loss for them since they don't get it much anyway. My older daughter asked what about her Halloween candy. Its been sitting on the fridge and doled out at one piece a day if she was good and if she ate her supper. She wondered if we had to throw it away. I told her that she could pick out 10 pieces of her favorites and she could keep that until it was gone but the rest she could throw away. She was fine with that solution.
So far so good.
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