That is so nice to hear – thank you! I do tend to speak my own thoughts even if the “profession” may not agree with me 🙂

Lynn

Thank you for your comment. Yes, it’s actually easier and less time-consuming to cook good foods at home [as well as a lot less costly.] I used to cook lots of what I was making, freeze and then defrost to eat. My son too learned to eat good foods – his favorite was “okurt” [yogurt] but I love your “hot beets.” Mine is 32 and almost never been sick..and is very smart too. Let’s keep putting the word out there about food and our kids!

Lynn

I was already interested in natural foods when my son was born, but hadn’t planned on having to make all his baby food! As it turned out, allergies and digestive problems (his food came out in his diaper looking exactly like it went in — no digestion having taken place) required me to make it all from scratch in a blender and freeze it in ice cube trays. I believe his first words were, “Hot beets!”

He never had an additive or food coloring until he went to preschool. I made the cake for his first birthday from scratch with soy milk as he was allergic to cow and goat milk. He learned to ask for carrots and apples for snacks and when offered suckers at the bank, stared at the tellers, not knowing what to do.

By the time he went to kindergarten he’d grown out of most of his digestive and allergic reactions, which was a good thing — the cat was out of the bag that all kids didn’t eat that way, and he discovered cookies and white bread.

But the early eating had done lots of good, as he, by his own choice, continued to request vegetables and for the most part go easy on the sugary treats and additives. I believe it’s because of his strong early eating patterns that we were able to hold off his type 1 diabetes until right before his 13th birthday — it might have started well before then without his great start.

And, because he learned to eat well as a young child, it made it much easier for him to accept the strict diabetes diet and routine so difficult for teenagers. Now a very healthy 35-year-old, my son now lifts weights and runs regularly, as well as cooks for his family.

Oh, yeah. He was valedictorian of his high school class and received a full fellowship to grad school in molecular genetics. So the good eating may have helped his brain, too!

So I’m with you. And it isn’t as hard as people might think.

Thanks for helping kids do well.
Marcia

Good for you and good for your family! It never hurts to eat nutritious stuff – and it gives your body a cushion, I think, for when you eat the “no- so-good-for-you” things