Responses to kitchen full of food

[Guest guest]

Thanks to everyone for their responses.  As someone who did not have the

opportunity to have children, I am getting to learn a new skill set at 40 years

old.  I think the simple place for me to start from is to have foods available

that I take great pleasure from and that my body needs.  I am doing this now. 

It is really fun to have variety at home.  I find that instead of eating stuff I

don't really want until too full, since I have more foods that I really like in

my kitchen, I am eating less and feeling super satisfied.  I am not depriving my

soul by always having the diet kitchen.

 

My job is not to be the food police. I do believe that I have a duty to set a

good example, to make good food choices.  I love to cook, and I can set a great

example in the kitchen of using fresh unprocessed foods, because that is what I

do naturally and it tastes great.  I have also learned not to eat with the

family if I am not hungry, or worse, eating a snack(meal) an hour or two before

a real mealtime.  It takes alot of will power to say, " No thanks, I'm not

hungry. "

 

I struggle with giving a kid a hot dog or bologna, and thinking - Lord, I would

never put that into my body.  I need to release my desire to control and judge,

and learn by watching.  What do children do when driven by their body's needs

instead of emotional eating?  But you also have to give them healthful options. 

Nurturing does not mean food pushing, it means making healthful options

available, and then modeling a healthy lifestyle.