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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]#1: Stop buying any food that is not healthy.  When you guys want treats, buy single servings or make it as a family.  Ice cream, crackers, lunch meats don't make the cut.  Stick with fresh fruits and vegetables, raw meats, whole grains, etc.

#2: Don't make extra food for meals so there aren't leftovers.

#3: Get into the habit of doing physical exercise as a family--not to lose weight but to emphasize what a healthy lifestyle looks like.  Tell the children that being healthy is a three-legged stool of Sleep, Exercise, and healthy Eating.

Can you work near the kitchen so you can monitor a bit better?  My kid was not in the kitchen alone so this never came up.[/quote]

I’m seriously curious. Do you work?  What do you eat for lunch every day?[/quote]

I am not the pp, but I basically eat the way they’re describing. I work, also.  It’s really not that hard with some preparation. Make a whole chicken, eat the meat as leftovers for the next few lunches. Roast several different veggie sides at the same time, eat them for the next few days. Keep lettuce and various salad fixings on hand so you can throw together a salad and warm up some leftover chicken and throw it on top. Make a big batch of homemade veggie sauce and gluten-free pasta. Freeze some of the sauce. It is really not that hard. [/quote]
I am going to go and bet my savings that this is not how regular middle-class Americans, nor any country people cook and eat! People hold on hand meat, rice, potatoes, noodles. Some veggies, unless you are a vegetarian or a vegan. One chicken doesn't last few next lunches! Not in a regular family of four, where kids are not 1 and 6 months old! Keep lettuce to fill the appetite of 9-year-olds? Gluten-free pasta? Why? Freeze the sauce? Normal families with normal eating family members, finish regular gluten pasta with meat sauce in one meal,, meal and a half. Any leftovers are the next day's lunch, and then you need a new dinner.
Several roasted veggies, let's say with the roasted chicken, hence all in one, do not last a few days! They are normally gone in one day. And that is with making pretty good portions. Please refrain from giving advice to people about eating and food when you clearly have a severe eating disorder!
Have lettuce on hand, so you can make a salad, my something! Only in WASP dcum insanity! Do you know what any normal person in any normal country that has normal growing kids would ask you if you served them a salad? Is this an appetizer![/quote]

lol so much to unpack here. First of all, there are three of us, not the “regular” 4. Second of all, someone in our house has gluten intolerance but I also tend to think something like chick pea pasta has more nutritional value than regular wheat pasta. I’m also talking about making big batches of things- so for sauce, for example, think more along the lines of a giant pot on the stove filled with a base of canned tomatoes and then tons and tons of sautéed veggies. Like enough sauce that half of it is left over after covering a whole box of penne pasta.

Also, please expand your understanding of salad. I’m not talking about a sad bowl of ice berg lettuce, think more along the lines of arugula with roasted sweet potato, goat cheese, avocado, topped with chicken.

We do keep some snacks, mainly crackers and fruit and we do dessert several times a week. There is a wide spectrum between kids snacking all day on junk food and depriving children of food.

Trust me, my family is well fed and happy. How were you raised that a whole family eating a healthy diet sounds so strange for you?[/quote]
No thanks, I will not expand my understanding of the salad. I grew up eating the Med diet and it served me right! I know healthy eating when I see healthy eating! Yours is not! I also grew up knowing that growing kids need protein and greens and carbs. I eat broth-like soups as a starter, as does most of the world. Perhaps you need to rethink your eating habits? I  have yet to meet a person that talks about salad of any sort as a proper meal for kids.[/quote]

Where in my post did I say I limit my childs carb intake??? I serve pasta, roasted potatoes (and other root veg), and rice. A pretty typical dinner for my entire household is a portion of protein (chicken, a burger, fish) a veggie, and some sort of carb, with dessert a few times a week. I was simply suggesting that it's not as hard to make and keep on hand healthy food as people are making it out to be if you batch cook. I'm not suggesting roasting veggies with chicken as a sheet pan meal, I am describing roasting up multiple baking sheets of different vegetables in one go (I actually used to sometimes do this before work pre-pandemic) and then having them on hand for the next three days or so to make life easier.

[b]There is no need to feed your children prepackaged junk when it's so easy to serve[/b] fruit and yogurt or [b]chips [/b]and hummus as a snack. And again, why the salad hate? I fail to see how a big salad topped with a serving of protein and other fixings is not a meal.

Serious question, do you have an eating disorder? That is the only reason I can see that what I am describing (a diet full of whole foods, mainly shopped from the perimeter of the grocery store, with some indulgences) sounds unhealthy to you. [/quote]

NP. I don't disagree with some of your points, but chips are prepackaged junk. That doesn't mean I don't let my children have them, because I do. It just means I'm not sanctimonious about it.[/quote]

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