Finally I’ll be making a big announcement at the blog this week, I hope you’ll subscribe with the buttons up there so you don’t miss anything! 🙂
- I love success stories with Real Food: Sarah tells how the GAPS Diet totally cleared up her health issues and her husband’s too! (Find GAPS Diet resources.)
- Speaking of the GAPS Diet, go read my favorite comment from last week (#29 there), what a story!
- Are you thinking “back to school” yet? A reader, Valerie, emailed the other day asking how to get her kids off school hot lunches this fall. I gave her this school lunches & healthier alternatives post to look through, but also suggested she compromise if necessary and let them get hot lunch only on Fridays or some similar plan. Thankfully my kids are just in the habit of eating cold lunch and don’t even ask to eat hot lunch. Do you have any more good ideas to share?!
- From the archives: have you seen these posts on parenting? Check out the scoop on vaccines, feeding baby, food coloring and behavior issues (a nasty connection we’ve been seeing in our 5 year old), 16 ways to help overweight kids, healthy snack ideas and more.
- Jen sent me a link with clips on this new movie, Truck Farm, from the makers of King Corn. It looks like it’s going to be a fun story, and the music is catchy & hilarious all at the same time. 🙂
Have a great week!
Susan, OCC says
For us, lunch is not such a big issue, however the school serves breakfast (for my son it is a second breakfast). Frequently it is what they call a hot breakfast bar, which has things that will not nourish him at all. I try to get him to eat a substantial meal before he leaves home, but he tends to be a slow eater.
I am planning on going to the school the first week and talk to them about it.
Anyone else with the almost mandatory school breakfast dilemma?
KitchenKop says
We don’t have breakfast, thankfully, but the unbelievable amount of crappy snacks and candy that they’re always being offered is another thing that drives me crazy. I wish they’d come up with better incentives/rewards!
lisa says
If she’s asking how to get kids off hot lunches in the sense that they want to eat hot lunch everyday, I’ve got a friend who had one idea (would work if the kids are money motivated). She deposited a certain amount into their lunch account – amount equal to max number of meals you would want them to have. Then let them know that if they don’t use that money they get to keep it at the end of the year! One of her kids chose to brown bag it all year & keep all the $$$. Other kid spent it all in the first few months & then *had* to brown bag it rest of the year. 🙂
KitchenKop says
WHAT A GREAT TIP!!!!!!
Hallee the Homemaker says
Happy Monday morning, my friend. 🙂
Have a beautiful week.