My daughter already gets loads less candy and swee...

2009-04-05T14:06:00.000-04:00

My daughter already gets loads less candy and sweets than the average kid. Her weaknesses are fruit and ice cream. Her favorite fruits are melons and berries and I'm more than willing to let her have those, as they're low-carb in the first place. The ice cream is a bit more of a problem. I have a Donvier pot and can make my own, but as often as not, her dad buys store-bought, which of course is loaded with crap.

Actually he's the biggest underminer of my efforts. He has a handy excuse in that he's reactive to all artificial sweeteners that we know of, unless you count stevia, since it's processed all to hell. He can have that one. The rest of them give him migraines or make him feel poisoned. So he continues consuming sugar and HFCS, and of course if I make anything sweet here and want him to have any, I must keep sugar around. Otherwise I'd stick with sucralose and occasionally raw honey (for my daughter, not me).

But there's a lot riding on this. My daughter's baby teeth are already bad. Between my poor pregnancy diet and her being on antibiotics for a year and a half due to urinary reflux and needing to protect her kidneys from infections... she's got caps on her upper front teeth and has had one pulled already at age four, and most of her molars have fillings in them. (We're about to go for another one the day before Easter.) So I need to be careful that her permanent teeth will develop well. I have an uphill climb ahead of me, though, as long as he keeps caving in and buying crap.

So I guess I will have to start wasting "food." And then having fights over it. And I hate confrontation, but really, they aren't my teeth and I'm not gonna have to live with them. But he seems to think this is all make-believe or something. I read to him from Taubes or from some LC website and he nods along and says it makes sense... then goes right back to eating crap. And feeding it to our girl. GRR.

There are three foods I avoid that seem to be in e...

2009-03-23T14:26:00.000-04:00

There are three foods I avoid that seem to be in every processed food.

1. Sugar
2. Soy
3. Wheat.

Seems like I can't buy anything that is not in the parameter of the store.

I absolutely limit sugars and "hidden" s...

2009-03-23T09:38:00.000-04:00

I absolutely limit sugars and "hidden" sugars in my family's diet.

I admit that I have a sweet tooth, so I have been experimenting in creating desserts which are either naturally sweetened with things like apples or I use sweetener such as Splenda. I know there are drawbacks to using sweeteners too, but I believe that, since we don't eat desserts all of the time, sweeteners are the lesser evil.

Comments on Thrifty Mom in a Consumer World: Good food called bad, bad food called good?

My daughter already gets loads less candy and swee...

There are three foods I avoid that seem to be in e...

I absolutely limit sugars and "hidden" s...