| a parent isn’t the easiest job in the world, | | | | This didn’t make me feel any better, but |
| and it certainly gets even more difficult at meal | | | | the few recipes and tricks that she gave me did |
| times. What can you give your kids nutrition wise | | | | make me feel better. At last I now had at least a |
| that they will eat? These days it’s come | | | | passing chance at getting my kids nutrition intake |
| to being an almost impossible decision what with | | | | in order. Otherwise I was going to have to resort |
| all the advertisements for fast foods that kids | | | | to giving them supplements, there was simply no |
| are bombarded with on an almost minute by | | | | other way. |
| minute basis. How can you compete with a | | | | If you’re giving your kids baked chicken |
| greasy burger and fries accompanied by the | | | | try breading it first as this might give them the |
| latest must have toy included free? | | | | illusion of having fried chicken. Add a little bit of |
| I tell you it’s almost impossible and I had | | | | spices to the mix to give it that added taste as |
| all but given up where my kids nutrition was | | | | well. You could also try making your own burgers. |
| concerned. It was so much easier when they | | | | These need not be complicated affairs, and should |
| were smaller and they had to eat what I set in | | | | only contain the most basic of ingredients that |
| front of them. At least then they got some | | | | you can throw together to create something that |
| nutritious food into their bodies. These days, | | | | looks and tastes like a burger. |
| it’s more along the lines of a battle field. I | | | | And if that doesn’t sort out your kids |
| set a plate of delicious home cooked baked | | | | nutrition worries for you there always a host of |
| chicken in front of them and they just stare at it | | | | other ideas that you can try that will have your |
| in disgust and tell me they want fried chicken! | | | | kids eating happily at home and with no |
| I don’t give in but sometimes I feel that it | | | | complaints. Of course you’re bound to |
| would be so much easier if I could just forget my | | | | come across one or two things that they |
| responsibilities to my kids nutrition intake and let | | | | absolutely won’t eat no matter however |
| the world of processed foods take over. It was | | | | much you disguise it, but other than that, you |
| at this almost despairing point that a fairy came | | | | shouldn’t have to worry over whether |
| to my aid in the form of my mother, who | | | | your kids nutrition levels are what they should be. |
| pointed out with a wicked smile that I had been | | | | All it takes is a little perseverance and a |
| just as bad, not eating anything that was set in | | | | “fairy” mother! |
| front of me. | | | | |