Finding Me
05-17-2006, 05:10 AM
I'm carrying this over from the 30 day May Challenge.. so it's in the appropriate section since we don't have PM's.
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Hi Finding Me! I would never guess you had a son, you look sooo young and beautiful of course! ;-)
My daughter is turning 4 in July. I have to be honest, I think I have been high raw all my life, I had always tried to avoid pastas, rice, breads, because I knew that they weren't good at all and they would make me really bloaded, I used to work in show business and was always eating raw goodies with chix, turkey or fish. So my daughter had always seeing me eating like this and she used to eat a lot of COOKED veggies and some fruits. BUT I would always cooked for her pastas, rice, a her veggies. I started transitioning on a 50%-50% raw first. I been also reading RAW KIDS (transitioning Children to a Raw Food Diet) This book is amazing and has been a great help too. You have to talk to your son like I did. I tell my daughter that fruits and vegetables are good for growing. We went to the zoo and we talk about how much these animals needs to eat fruits and vegetable to grow and be healthy. She told my BIL the other day that she eats her fruits and vegetables and that she is growing lol!!! so cute! Get books or go to Barnes and noble and find books of maybe Dinosours? eating grass or other animals eating fruits like monkeys or girafes eating carrots, etc. Also, ,my daughter LOVES apples, bananas, tangerines and I have these available all the time, I put them in the counter so she could see them. If you have something available for them they will want THAT. Try to NOT to buy processed things, tell him: no baby, we ran out we only have this! My daughter now only eats 20% cooked which is not much, that includes some fish, ezekiel breads and tortillas, some veggie soups FILLED with veggies of all kinds: brocolli, potatoes, carrots, cilantro and sometimes I was adding a few (very few) pieces of tofu but not anymore after reading all the tofu links. I try to get all these ingredients organic, specially the tofu. She LOVES fish, so I put fish in essene bread, for example: Spread some spinach sauce (where I mix sunflower seeds, sprouts, spinach, avocado, olive oil, nuts) then a layer of lettuce, then another layer of fish then a layer of an enchilada sauce. I cover the whole thing to hide the lettuce b3ecause she HATES THE LETTUCE! LOL!!! But I will feed her myself to make sure she will eat everything without taking out the lettuce. I make avocado sandwiches for her but again 'I' have to feed her, to make sure she will eat everything. It may be a lot of work, but I don't care, I want to make sure she eats everything. I am trying really hard for her to eat more greens, I worry that she will not get enough chlorophill, so the best thing right now is our spinach sauce where I hide all the fats and greens possible! hehehe!!! Also, everytime we eat, I offer. I won't push it, but do offer all the time. She has said no most of the time, but WHEN SHE IS HUNGRY! she says yes and eats it! lol Just keep asking and have raw available, try to minimize cooked foods as possible. If you are going to give him some wheat or gluten-free pasta, make raw tomato sauce at least and add to pasta. Or a sprouted bread sandwich, spread raw sauce instead of butter and hide some avocado or greens in the sauce like I do. I also noticed that she loves dehydrated fruits and tomatoes, so I offer these a lot. I give her what she likes then try to offer a lot of my gourmet dishes, she will not touch my smoothies, we are working on that really hard!
p.s. I forgot to say, my daughter only eats one small cooked food a day, some days she don't. Depends on how much she eats one day, if she doesn't eat too much in a day, the next I give her a cooked food. Which may be 3 to 4 times a week!
Robertandenith:
Thanks for responding. I have the book you mentioned, and yes it is a good one. As for my son... if it is anything vegetable, he won't eat it. I'm trying to work those in... but it's been hard. I've tried smoothis and he "kind of" drinks them. He loves grapes, and he is eating some other fruits as well, but he can't understand the concept of fruit being breakfast, or lunch, or dinner. We we're FULL SAD before going Raw. :(
I have explained that fruits and veggies are good for us, help us grow, and make our tummies feel better. (he had some stomach problems when eating dairy and some other things) He repeats to me PROUDLY that these fruits and veggies are good for us..etc. (like he's bragging that he knows this :) )
But when It comes down to eating these all day...he's not having it. My concern is that he doesn't get deficient with eating the few foods that he does like now. I also suppose it doesn't help when hubby isn't Full Raw yet either. I'm trying to transition him as well. *sigh* I just don't know what to do. My son is already small for his age, and I definitely don't need him getting any smaller. When he was on SAD, he would eat all day! Constantly! But now he cries when I tell him he has to pick from the fruits and veggies we have in the house. I guess it was poor parenting of Foods in the past. I just don't know how to correct those mistakes without starving him. He does like Almond milk though. (Thank goodness!!) Sorry everyone... I'm babbling a bit.. but i suppose that's good. This is a support group.
Anyway Robertandenith, thanks for answering! I will reread my RAW Kids book... and see what I can do.
Quote:
Hi Finding Me! I would never guess you had a son, you look sooo young and beautiful of course! ;-)
My daughter is turning 4 in July. I have to be honest, I think I have been high raw all my life, I had always tried to avoid pastas, rice, breads, because I knew that they weren't good at all and they would make me really bloaded, I used to work in show business and was always eating raw goodies with chix, turkey or fish. So my daughter had always seeing me eating like this and she used to eat a lot of COOKED veggies and some fruits. BUT I would always cooked for her pastas, rice, a her veggies. I started transitioning on a 50%-50% raw first. I been also reading RAW KIDS (transitioning Children to a Raw Food Diet) This book is amazing and has been a great help too. You have to talk to your son like I did. I tell my daughter that fruits and vegetables are good for growing. We went to the zoo and we talk about how much these animals needs to eat fruits and vegetable to grow and be healthy. She told my BIL the other day that she eats her fruits and vegetables and that she is growing lol!!! so cute! Get books or go to Barnes and noble and find books of maybe Dinosours? eating grass or other animals eating fruits like monkeys or girafes eating carrots, etc. Also, ,my daughter LOVES apples, bananas, tangerines and I have these available all the time, I put them in the counter so she could see them. If you have something available for them they will want THAT. Try to NOT to buy processed things, tell him: no baby, we ran out we only have this! My daughter now only eats 20% cooked which is not much, that includes some fish, ezekiel breads and tortillas, some veggie soups FILLED with veggies of all kinds: brocolli, potatoes, carrots, cilantro and sometimes I was adding a few (very few) pieces of tofu but not anymore after reading all the tofu links. I try to get all these ingredients organic, specially the tofu. She LOVES fish, so I put fish in essene bread, for example: Spread some spinach sauce (where I mix sunflower seeds, sprouts, spinach, avocado, olive oil, nuts) then a layer of lettuce, then another layer of fish then a layer of an enchilada sauce. I cover the whole thing to hide the lettuce b3ecause she HATES THE LETTUCE! LOL!!! But I will feed her myself to make sure she will eat everything without taking out the lettuce. I make avocado sandwiches for her but again 'I' have to feed her, to make sure she will eat everything. It may be a lot of work, but I don't care, I want to make sure she eats everything. I am trying really hard for her to eat more greens, I worry that she will not get enough chlorophill, so the best thing right now is our spinach sauce where I hide all the fats and greens possible! hehehe!!! Also, everytime we eat, I offer. I won't push it, but do offer all the time. She has said no most of the time, but WHEN SHE IS HUNGRY! she says yes and eats it! lol Just keep asking and have raw available, try to minimize cooked foods as possible. If you are going to give him some wheat or gluten-free pasta, make raw tomato sauce at least and add to pasta. Or a sprouted bread sandwich, spread raw sauce instead of butter and hide some avocado or greens in the sauce like I do. I also noticed that she loves dehydrated fruits and tomatoes, so I offer these a lot. I give her what she likes then try to offer a lot of my gourmet dishes, she will not touch my smoothies, we are working on that really hard!
p.s. I forgot to say, my daughter only eats one small cooked food a day, some days she don't. Depends on how much she eats one day, if she doesn't eat too much in a day, the next I give her a cooked food. Which may be 3 to 4 times a week!
Robertandenith:
Thanks for responding. I have the book you mentioned, and yes it is a good one. As for my son... if it is anything vegetable, he won't eat it. I'm trying to work those in... but it's been hard. I've tried smoothis and he "kind of" drinks them. He loves grapes, and he is eating some other fruits as well, but he can't understand the concept of fruit being breakfast, or lunch, or dinner. We we're FULL SAD before going Raw. :(
I have explained that fruits and veggies are good for us, help us grow, and make our tummies feel better. (he had some stomach problems when eating dairy and some other things) He repeats to me PROUDLY that these fruits and veggies are good for us..etc. (like he's bragging that he knows this :) )
But when It comes down to eating these all day...he's not having it. My concern is that he doesn't get deficient with eating the few foods that he does like now. I also suppose it doesn't help when hubby isn't Full Raw yet either. I'm trying to transition him as well. *sigh* I just don't know what to do. My son is already small for his age, and I definitely don't need him getting any smaller. When he was on SAD, he would eat all day! Constantly! But now he cries when I tell him he has to pick from the fruits and veggies we have in the house. I guess it was poor parenting of Foods in the past. I just don't know how to correct those mistakes without starving him. He does like Almond milk though. (Thank goodness!!) Sorry everyone... I'm babbling a bit.. but i suppose that's good. This is a support group.
Anyway Robertandenith, thanks for answering! I will reread my RAW Kids book... and see what I can do.