Thursday, October 27, 2011
More Baby Steps
Two of the first changes I made when I cut back on processed foods were eliminating bagged salads and pasta/potato side-dish mixes. For months, whenever I set a salad, loaded with fresh vegetables and tossed with homemade dressing, on the table, my children would cry in despair, "When can we have Caesar salad?" The bagged salad kit includes romaine, some Parmesan, 6 - 8 dry croutons and a calorie rich dressing. On a busy evening recently, I "pressed the easy button," and picked up a salad kit and a box of Alfredo style noodles to go with grilled pork chops. At the end of the meal, the salad sat, barely touched. My husband asked what I did wrong to the noodles because they were "sticky." I didn't have the heart to tell them, they were just used to eating real food.
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Good job! A funny thing happens when people get used to REAL food; all those old boxed treats that "did it" for them just don't anymore. We are on an extended road trip, largely without my husband who is typically the first to ask "when can we have NORMAL food" when he's gone too long without something from a can or box. But now that we've been away several weeks, he's picked up his own strange habit: cooking fish and kale for HIMSELF while we're NOWHERE near the kitchen! Healthy food WITHOUT me there making it and putting it on the table. WOW! (They CAN be taught!) :)
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