So, I have three growing boys, and I have icecream, and candy, and chips, and Little Debbie. I am embarrassed at the grocery store check-out line. I have changed my eating habits, and now is the time to slowly start incorporating changes into the kids daily eating habits too. I make a healthy meal most nights of the week, include fruit when I pack lunches (along side that Little Debbie), and morning snack is most likely to be a fruit and a mozzarella stick. Most nights of the week, my 6-year-old will choose fruit over icecream or chips, but my two older boys will pick junk for their snacks. A couple nights a week, I will insist they have a fruit instead, which is met with many complaints, moans, and groans, and I don't feel like living through the whining the next night and drop the subject for a few days.
This time though, I gave them fair warning. After I grocery shopped on Sunday night, skipping the icecream aisle entirely, I let all three boys know that for either their after school or evening snack they must choose a fruit. They can pick anything available in the house for one snack, but the other MUST be a fruit, no exceptions. Small changes.
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