Thursday, 01 January 2009
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chicken soup or ice cream?
A while back I caught pictures of the girls eating ice cream cones and chicken soup at the same time. I seem to come across many discussions in the unschooling lists about food and what our kids eat. Lots of parents have trouble trusting that their kids will still eat a variety of nourishing foods if they let them have the ice cream and cookies whenever they want.
Sometimes the girls eat ice cream first thing in the morning. Sometimes a couple times in one day. Often they eat less than half of what they ask for and we throw away the leftovers. Or another one of us might share it... But when there are many choices available to them they do inevitably choose something I consider "more" nourishing. Dean makes awesome chicken soup with organic broth and natural chicken, sometimes we'll make our own bone broth from a farm fresh organic chicken we bake the day before. We add carrots and spaghetti squash and none of us can resist it. So here is an example where I think they asked for ice cream before I realized they were hungry so I just set bowls of soup down next to them and they ended up choosing to have some of that too. I have the same photo of Nena that I hope to upload soon.
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Yeah...you're back! I've missed your blog!
Jean
I LOVE this picture! Especially the apple with a couple of bites out of it. This really does showcase choice in eating. Is that candy next to the soup, and a cake of some sort right in front of her? THIS makes me very happy!
@Joni - Hi! I don't think it's candy. Maybe it's a goldfish or a cheddar bunny; though we often do have candy lying around like that. That's definitely a cake! Good eye! lol. Thanks!
@Joni - It's funny, it almost looks staged, the way the apple and clementine are turned so you can see the half eaten nature of things. It wasn't though!