I changed my mind.

WOD: 5 Rounds
            15 OHS
            60 DUs
            *killed it!


For the last, well... all of Connor's life, I have stood my ground on one rule. I will not fix more than one meal. If you don't like what I am fixing for dinner, you eat what you like and be done with it. I'm not sure what sparked me to feel this way. I followed all of the "mommy how" books. I nursed for a long time (not hippie long time, but close), didn't introduce fruits until after the veggies had been in diet for a couple months and pureed table food that we were already eating. I can remember a time that Connor begged to have an apple on the table and the lady snapped at him because it was a decoration around all of these iced sugar cookies!

The older the kids get, the hungrier they become. I don't snack as much as they do and because they eat lunch at 11am and get home starving at 4pm, our schedules are a little messed up.

Last week, Connor and Parker started making "requests" for different dinner food than what I was preparing. Before I said no, I thought about what we had in the house to eat. They both requested good and healthy alternatives to what we were having. So, I made them what they wanted. I'm not sure this is such a horrible habit after all. It's not like their alternative is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or a bowl of cereal.

If giving them choices gives them ownership and control over their food to make better choices when I'm not around, so be it.

Breakfast (protein pancake and bacon), Lunch (turkey, cashews, avocado), Snack (Spark*)