Thursday, January 24

 
eDiets.com: Top 10 Worst Kids' Foods!

Take a guess: chicken nuggets, french fries, toaster pastries, hot dogs, juice-flavored drinks, fruit leather, chips, doughnuts, prepackaged lunches and soda (pop to us Midwesterners).

Okay, I'm guilty. I let Evan have 7 of the 10 bad food (not on our list: doughnuts, juice drinks, pop). Fruit leather (fruit roll ups, I'm guessing), chips, hot dogs, maybe once or twice a month on average, although my husband does pack a small bag of Old Dutch white-corn taco chips in Evan's lunches. Lunchables (the packaged lunch), maybe three to four times a month. Pop-Tarts, on average once a week. Chicken nuggets and french fries are our biggest offenders - at least once a week, thanks to my husband's practice of taking Evan to Mac's after school if he's really ravenous.

How do I feel about this list? Obviously, a diet made up of only these items would be horrendous to health and mental well-being. NEVER to allow them? Maybe in your world, but not in mine. I find a Lunchable to be an excellent behavior motivator, and I do add in fresh fruits or vegetables to the quotient. We don't send them to school in the lunch box, though.
posted by Unknown 12:06 PM