Thursday, 6 September 2012

Sabotage!!

I've been going pretty well with the whole/real foods thing. There's been a couple of slip ups & a couple of occasions where the girls have eaten crap (e.g been at a fete so they had some lollies, ice cream & sausage sandwich). The good food has outnumbered the bad, but we could have done better. There has been a few sabotages though....The girl's dad keeps buying crap (granted not as much as he once did). He'll turn up with stuff like hash browns from the golden arches and give them to the girls before I can say or do anything. I caught the Asian rice cakes that were full of colours, refined products and god knows what else. That led to the comment about how they can have treats and I might as well just have them eat carrot sticks for the rest of their lives. Then there was the microwavepopcorn. I confess I actually nuked a bag & ate it myself. It tasted like a chemical sh**storm and I felt horrid. I binned the other 4 packets.

Now my mum is back home. For almost 6 months she has been staying with my grandma and I've been getting rid of all the processed junk. Mum comes home and junk is getting brought. In her defense it is "healthy" junk...Example last night to save me cooking she brought a ready made quiche, pasta salad, tabbouleh and coleslaw with shop mayo. I added tomato, cucumber, beet root & onion, I put small serves of the other stuff out. I'm going to have to pre-make some easy dinner meals. Also this weekend I'm going to make some muffins, bars etc for mum to take to work. Then hopefully start weaning her off chemical lunches (noodles, tin soups etc)

Don't know what to do about the girls dad though..and mum really as she doesn't see much wrong with the "healthy" junk. I think slowly change things & try & get her to read some of the books etc that I've got.....

How do other people manage partners/parents/family/friends who don't see anything wrong in feeding your kids (& you) crap??

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