Wasted food epiphany and the dinner abondanza

[Guest guest]

Your epiphany is a lesson to parents everywhere.    First, at the appropriate

ability level, let the child select how much food she wants.  Then let her eat

until she is satisfied - no more " eat until your plate is clean. "   Alot of us

were taught to eat until we were stuffed, and now we are having to undo that

hard-wired behavior.   It's not just for kids either.  Try it out on yourself.

 

Dinner is my hardest meal.  Because I will try to gyp myself with a small

serving and then keep grazing all night.  I have been making as much food as I

feel I want on the first round, and this has decreased my grazing.  What if you

put our all your grazing food on a plate(s) on the first go around.  I find I

quit the mindless, tuned-out, emotionally painful one mouthful at a time grazing

when I am satisifed on the first round.

 

Some food for thought if it helps anyone.