I have been reading a lot lately about fake food and bad for you stuff. Jillian Michaels is going to kill me one way or another--if it is not with her workout then she will starve me to death by making me afraid to eat all my normal food! I bought her new book and I am really going crazy lately trying to be healthier with our food.
I have not bought bread for about 3 weeks. I am baking all of our bread and the kids love it. I found ketchup with no high fructose corn syrup and it tastes good! I have bought some organic crackers. I even went to the farmer's market yesterday and I don't know if I will ever be able to buy tasteless strawberries from the grocery store again.
The kids don't seem to mind this healthier eating yet. So far they have decided that "real food" tastes much better. They like "mommy's bread" better-- they will even eat the crust. The strawberries are the best they have had since they had fresh ones last year from Mamaw's garden. The organic bunny cheese crackers have been voted as better than goldfish. But the very favorite thing has been my substitute for gogurt (the yogurt in a tube).
You would think that all yogurt is healthy. But have you read the labels? I did not even have to read the label to know something was not quite right. The blue poop it causes decided that one for me a long time ago. I still bought it because B needs calcium since she won't drink milk. But now they have decided that homemade frozen yogurt pops are way better than gogurt. I found the recipe in Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook that I got from the library. This recipe is so easy and it takes about 2 minutes. I did buy some extra popsicle molds from walmart because I could only find 3 of mine. They have the popsicle molds with the snowcone makers right now so they are easy to find.
*1 cup plain lowfat yogurt (I bought the all natural nonfat kind)
*1 cup frozen berries thawed in microwave for one minute (strawberry is all we have used so far but tomorrow we are trying blueberry.)
*1/4-1/2 cup powdered sugar (she suggests the larger amount of sugar if you use raspberries)
Toss it all in a blender and process until smooth. Pour into popsicle molds and freeze.
Actually the recipe in the book is double everything and she says it makes 8. I use the amounts above and I get 6 popsicles.
Oh yeah, for lunch today I made cream of zucchini soup with zucchini from the farmer's market. B and E LOVED it--B said best soup ever. K never tried it, she was not hungry. E said it was really good and he says he does not even like zucchini although I think this is the first time he ever tried it.
My kids are doing very well with this healthy stuff. Probably better than me. Oh, sure it is my idea and I am the one in charge of it all. And while I ate the soup and enjoyed it very much, and I even made bruschetta with homemade bread, fresh tomatoes and fresh basil....for dinner I ate a bowl of ice cream. Coffee ice cream with chocolate syrup.
It WAS Breyer's all natural ice cream though.
2 comments:
That sounds like a book we need to get. We need to change how we eat as well. I like yogart too, it usually does have a lot of dye and sugar in it. I do not like foods with dye in it. We had some green icing once on a cake...and well let's just say, it's not very good for ya...like the blue yogart u mentioned lol...not good. Dye really bothers my stomach. I never like really dark dyes on my birthday cakes...so i always like small roses...not the big ones with the nasty dark dye they put in it. Wish i could try some of your bread. I eat too much bread. Not good for the tummy line. Well we all can do better eating.
If poptarts, wheatables, cheezits and nutter butters , and nutri-grain bars count as fake food, I'm in trouble! lol Blueberries are good. U like blueberries? Soooo good.
A.K.
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