A bunch of articles on healthy eating

[conuly]

By which they mean "fruits and veggies", of course.

One on how you should eat a variety of colors in your foods. I first heard this a few years ago and took it completely to heart, and this is why we eat carrots in our rice. (Well, that and the fact that carrots are cheap and blend in nicely.) BTW, rainbowgoddess, did you know about purple rice? That can go into your all-purple meal one day.

Here's an article on eating fruits and vegetables for $2 a day. I have never in my life considered dried beans (even once cooked) to be "vegetables" as in "part of the vegetable food group".

I've posted this before, but it's still nifty - homemade flash cards to help kids pick out their own (healthy!) lunches.

And, if you're all about the friendly competition, there are these charts you can buy to help your kids (or yourself) make sure they/you really do eat a full amount of fruits and vegetables every day.

They have their own page talking about the specific point of all this.

And finally, a post about handing knives to children. I can't see the Babycenter thread that criticized her, but that's probably for the best.

Comments

[dragonwolf]

Have you sent that last one to Lenore? I think she'd like the poster.

[conuly]

Before I posted it here, actually :)

Edit: Wrong link. No, I got this FROM FRK.

[dandelion.livejournal.com]

It really annoys me when articles say things like "Think you can’t afford the recommended daily servings of fruit and vegetables for you and your family? Could you spend $2 to $2.50 each day on produce?" when the answer is "no, because I only spend $2.80 a day on everything I eat". Okay, this year I actually could spend slightly more, but after three years of my student loan giving me just £21 a week ($30) for food, clothes, transport to uni, medication, etc, it's really hard to get out of the "you have no extra money" mindset.

(Oh, and for what it's worth - beans do count as one of your five a day, but only one, like fruit juice. Coconut, however, does not.)

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Two to 2.50 per day...per person? That's more than our monthly food budget ENTIRE.

We do eat vegetables at least once a day and eat fruit at least once a day. But it's frequently just onion on a burger or some canned or dried fruit in the brown-bag lunch.

(I invested in some vitamin pills as a second line of defense--better than nothing.)

[conuly]

Your food budget is under $2.00 a day? That's pretty remarkable. I think even food stamps give up to $4 a day.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Per person.

We spend around a hundred around the first of each month on the big shopping trip then the perishables are filled in each week via small ($10-$20) trips to local stores. This gives us around 120 to 160 per month to feed the two of us.

In order to do this, I bake all my own bread, buying flour in 25-pound bags (8.60 each), and so forth. I buy store brands unless they're absolutely disgusting and get a lot of stuff in bulk.

[conuly]

All the same, I still think food stamps give up to $4 per person per day. If you can budget on half that and avoid the aid, that's pretty impressive.