RE: 4 Helpful/Easy Ways To “Trick” Your Kids Into Treating Themselves With Fruits and Veggies! Get Your Kids Loving to Eat 'Em! 🍊🍉🍈🍇
Thanks for the reply, @rieki. We are, for the most part, in agreement:
Get kids more involved in growing, preparing, enjoying...wholesome foods. And @heart-to-heart has many good suggestions along those lines.
Where a difference lies, for me, is the emphasis on sweet produce. I feel they should be more of a treat, or a dessert, than a several times a day occurrence.
And this comes from me - one who has been raised addicted to sugar. I know from experience that the sweet produce makes you want more sweet produce or confections, changes your pallet so that the flavors from other produce can’t compete, and even causes blood sugar imbalances.
As a parent of young kids, I always felt good about providing them wholesome, even exotic fruits, in plenty. But now, with 20/20 hindsight, I would take a more sparing approach to sugary fruits. We had a blueberry bush in our yard, but it didn’t provide a cupful of berries/day. We would watch them ripen with great anticipation, and really enjoy each morsel right from the bush.
I also have a different view of the amazing selection of produce available at the market now. Years ago, the convenience and variety just wasn’t there. So, our appreciation of the new, seasonal choices was high. Today, people take food, and where it comes from, for granted.
I’m glad @heart-to-heart showed ways to help kids experience growing, cooking, displaying, and tasting.
I merely believe it’s a lot easier to do when it comes to sweet fruits and desserts, than asparagus or a nourishing stew.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts a bit more :)
Not all sugars are created equal! Sugar is required for life, even if you let your body convert fat into sugar, it is still required...
That sounds wonderful :) :)
I personally believe that, sweet or not, all food grown in season and in our own domain is the best food for us. I especially believe that our desire to eat it (wonderful flavour) is the absolute best indication for the health it brings to us. There is a world-of-a-difference in flavour between home-grown and store bought foods in every category. Even more so when these foods are combined with our personal DNA. I don't prioritize un-enjoyable foods over enjoyable ones. I personally think our body craves what it needs (when presented with healthy choices and free from addiction, microbiological and otherwise). This is of course saying that we would have to grow all our food ourselves in order to follow this natural instinct.
All this is to say, that yes, most our modified and selectively bred fruits we find at the store today are abominations compared to their health-brining home-grown counterparts. So, I agree probably tone down on the fruits if bought from a store. However, if (and I do) grow my fruits myself. I eat them to my hearts content, I enjoy everything I put into my body, from my mouth to my gut! I eat what I feel like eating and I have never been in better health condition in my life.
This is all my defense of sweet fruits :)
Couldn't agree more! So, let's grow our own food and enjoy it without judgment :)
Happy for you to grow your own foods!!
Enjoy them!
Thank you :) They are indeed wonderful gifts!!