A first! Real food for dinner

Last night, somehow, the kids agreed to and thoroughly enjoyed a complete REAL FOOD dinner. You could even make the argument that it was primal. I don’t know how this happened – maybe I just wore them down. Here’s the documentation:

My son is a carbohydrate addict. How do I know this? Because I think he’s mini-me. I see how he eats, what he eats, his preoccupation with sweets and junk, his drive to eat carbohydrates…it’s like I am watching reruns of myself. Given that, last night was extra special. Here’s the dinner:

That’s a 2 egg omelet with bacon, tomatoes, and a boatload of sautéed onions (he absolutely loves them and can’t stop eating them) with a side of cucumber and a glass of raw milk. The new item on the list was eggs – these were formerly off limits unless they were hidden in baked goods or French toast. What’s missing from that picture? BREAD and ketchup! Woohoo!

Not to be outdone, my daughter got pretty caveman on her own. She’s different – while she prefers junk like any kid, she doesn’t show the same drive or preoccupation with carbohydrates. For example, if she’s full, she’ll stop eating. My son needs to be close to throwing up for that to happen.

Her dinner was leftover grass-fed rib eye fried up in bacon fat, bacon, cucumbers, squash with butter (that’s a new one!) and a glass of raw milk.

Big night. Back to bagels this morning I am sure…

Minor improvement in breakfast

All my kids like to eat in the morning are traditional carbs – bagels, toast, cereal, pancakes (made with crap flour - “normally” as they call it). We’ve slowly been able to trim the quantity down – they only get 1/2 a bagel with real butter and fruit each morning along with a glass of raw milk (my son used to eat nothing but a whole, adult-sized bagel).

We’ve had very limited success with things like pancakes made with coconut flour (which are excellent) and almond meal. They immediately know it isn’t “normal” flour and start picking around and saying they aren’t hungry. These substitutes are pretty good, especially with the real butter and maple syrup I put on them, but once a kid gets it in their head that it is different, it’s impossible to change their mind.

We had some better success this week moving to parfaits using greek style yogurt (for some reason it was 2% Fage…not sure why we didn’t have the full fat stuff), fruit, cacao nuts, almonds, and raw honey. I got them to have this over a 1/2 bagel one time this week – that is a victory. Maybe we can get them to have it twice next week.

The picture below is the first trial run of a snack parfait to see if they would eat it. The right is topped with real mint leaves and strawberries. We just layered yogurt and raw honey and threw in some crunchies (cacao nibs, nuts).

Here’s the breakfast my son eventually ate. The eyes on the smiley face were blueberry muffins using sprouted flour that my wife is experimenting with.

Last, my daughter actually looks like she likes her breakfast!

(Note: she has worn her brother’s old cub scout hat for about 3 weeks straight.)

Crossfit Kids

A while back, Jeff mentioned he started his kids on Fred Hahn’s Strong Kids, Healthy Kids program. I never bought the book, but I think getting the kids out moving around is critical.

Along those lines, I stumbled upon Crossfit Kids this morning. Cool idea!

From the site

General Guidelines
CrossFit Kids is created as a tool for parents, teachers and Coaches to use with their kids.
We expect that kids will look at the site, be excited and motivated by the videos and pictures,
but that a parent, teacher or Coach will be helping to monitor and guide them through the workouts.