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Originally Posted by jimmycooper
Another idea for getting ideas is to get a few really nice cookbooks which focus on healthy eating, put them on the coffee table, and then maybe tell your kids something like "Hey, I got these really cool cookbooks. They're on the coffee table. Feel free to look through them and tell me what you think looks good and I'll try to cook it one day."
I don't have kids so don't know if something like that would work but I do know that when I was living with my ex-gf about 10 or more years ago, we had a cookbook from The Spa at Doral and a signed copy of one of the first Jamie Oliver books on our coffee table and when people came over, they would natually flip through one of the books and say 'Ooh, this one looks good'. It gave us some pretty good ideas. Very helpful because it can get stressful to pick out new stuff on your own all the time.
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Yup, this is exactly what I am going thru here - we've eaten a certain way all of our lives and for the MOST part I eat pretty damn good - not perfect - but good enough to keep Diabetes at bay and not have an issue with it. But now this is a whole new ballgame - so learning a new way again and knowing what is at stake for her if I don't get this right is pretty damn stressful.
I have a boatload of cookbooks and we look at them all the time - now I'll just have to go get some of these healthier ones geared more towards her.
I did raise my kids to all eat fruits and veggies, which in this day and age is a task on it's own - but I can buy a bag of fruits or veggies and never throw that away - but chocolate, sweets and the like, that goes bad here more than anything else - from the time they were old enough to eat from a spoon, I was mashing up fresh asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, and all those things kids never like - so imagine the look on waitresses faces when my kids would order a steak, potato and a salad over chicken nuggets and fries - those are snacks - not food. lol
THANKFULLY all of my kids know how to cook too - that was a must, to be able to feed themselves when they left here.
I think the reason this is so frustrating is because it is my daughter, if not for that, I wouldn't be in such a panic, but the least little thing is making her very sick - and we love trying and experimenting with new things -
Salad on a sandwich, that's a new one - and she LOVES salads, that's one of her goto things - she may love that!! Thank you!