the nutritionally recalcitrant spouse . . . part four (summing up)
Lisle and Goldhamer, in The Pleasure Trap, write about how as a culture we’re like that frog in the boiling water. You try to put a frog in boiling water, he’s going to leap out. But put him in cold water and turn on the heat, he’s going to gradually boil to death without [...]
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FOUR, just put more nutritious foods in the menu without taking any kind of soapbox stand about it. Just do it with no fanfare, and have a rule that it’s bad manners to criticize the cook. (You don’t want your kids leaving your home and turning their noses up at others’ cooking anyway, [...]
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TWO, a major reason you’re enthusiastically moving ahead with health-related dietary changes and he’s resisting is this: you’ve been educated, and he hasn’t! Obviously, or you wouldn’t be blogging on gsg.com with full confidence that he’ll never see it! Ever go on long car trips? I read China Study on a 10-hr. [...]
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Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: ”I am excited about eating right and enjoying the changes I’m making, but my husband/wife is sabotaging my efforts and doesn’t think eating white flour, sugar, meat, and Diet Coke is really gonna hurt anybody as long as we mix in a salad now and then.” You aren’t alone. I give my [...]
21 Comments • Continue Reading →good, better, best . . . Part II
GRAINS Good: eat whole grains and quit eating white flour. Better: eat soaked whole grains (this requires planning a little ahead, as my cousin noted). Best: eat sprouted, raw nuts, seeds, and grains. SWEETENERS (Note that I am uneasy about fructose, xylitol, “organic sugar,” or dehydrated cane juice crystals—ways to spend extra money on [...]
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I want to talk about good, better, and best in nutrition. I got an email yesterday from my cousin who said that the idea of soaking/sprouting grains in advance is overwhelming to her. She probably read my three-part blog on phytates in whole grains. If my cousin’s comment describes you, then don’t [...]
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gardening does so much more than provide food
Is there anything better than garden tomatoes? Twenty years ago, we used to make my sister-in-law, when she was a college student, sing a John Denver song before we gave her any of our garden tomatoes: “Only two things that money can’t buy, and that’s true love and home-grown tomatoes!” Yesterday, Apr. 5, I [...]
17 Comments • Continue Reading →interrupting our regularly scheduled programming . . .
DH and DS (internet-speak for Dear Husband and Dear Son) came home from visiting a family who just moved into our church congregation. They reported at dinner that the wife said, “I heard your wife has this website, GreenSmoothieGirl.com, so I checked it out. That’s quite a hobby she has going!” You don’t have [...]
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I wanted to pass along great ideas from two GreenSmoothieGirl.com readers who wrote me, on how they’ve been successful at getting their kids to eat raw vegetables and fruits: Use a muffin/cupcake pan and put raw almond butter in one hole, raw hummus in one hole, and fresh guacamole in one hole. Put cut-up [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →School lunch nutrition
Today was Go to Junior High With Your Child day. It’s hard to describe the level of enthusiasm Kincade expressed when I told him I was going to spend my birthday with him at his school, but I’ll try: eyes rolling, mouth hanging open, slumping. “No! Seriously? Mom! You wouldn’t!” I have developed [...]
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