Eat Whatever Food Experiment & Today's School Lunches

Good evening! I hope everyone had a great long weekend. 

Sorry for the late, oddly formatted post, but today was a busy day, & I'm blogging from my phone. :) 

Here is what my kiddos took for lunch today...

Funny story, this...my brother-in-law got a Groupon deal for NO-OODLES...zero guilt, zero fat, etc. The only "zero" that I care about is zero chemicals, and these were that, so we took some home (water, yam flour, & lime juice). Did I mention that he bought 2 cases...120 bags?!? 

So, what you see here are those noodles, cooked until no longer a squid-like consistency, with kale and the left over black bean salad that I had made for our Memorial Day cookout. They also had fruit salad (apples, pineapple & grapes), cheese cubes, and organic grape tomatoes (1st gr)/organic carrot sticks w/organic pb (K). 

It was a wet & chilly Memorial Day here, but we still enjoyed our time together. It was a time full of grocery shopping, outlet shopping, & family. 

At one point this weekend we took a day to go clothes shopping. The weight I've lost from our whole food lifestyle left me with a closet full of clothes were too big, so I sold nearly everything in the yard sale we had last week. I needed a few things! This was the first time, in a long time, that I didn't bring food with us. We are what was there, and then some. It was an experiment of sorts...would the kids crave real food after this? Would they think this "desirable" food tasted better than the diet we've been eating? 

We had Pizza Villa for lunch, w/ salads. It was the lesser of the evils. We also had Rocky Mountain Chocolate Co. White Chocolate Bark, & a small donut. We drank water. 

I learned a few things...

1. I can't eat sweets like that without being grossed out. They are just WAY too sweet! My oldest agreed. My husband asked me if I thought that it was good...I told him what I thought. So, I only had a teeny piece of bark. 

2. The kids were excited to have these treats, but that's to be expected. They were satisfied with the small amounts that they had, and didn't ask for more (except for my 1st grader who cries about everything, it seems). Honestly, they would have been just as excited over a fruit cup! 

3. They prefer our homemade pizza, to any other. 

4. These chemicals really do effect you. We were all tired, had headaches, and just felt crummy. My husband regretted it, and said we won't be doing that again anytime soon! I didn't eat as much as everyone else, so didn't feel quite as awful.  ;)

5. They couldn't wait for a home cooked meal! They were craving fresh foods...real foods. By the time we got home, they couldn't wait to eat organic pasta w/organic zucchini, and fresh salad w/ my homemade dressing. They also had green drink with dinner.  

Here are our salads...

         Yep, even the baby likes salad! 

Yum! Smell that freshness!!  It's so good! 

I'm pretty confident that with the food lifestyle that we've chosen, our children may not always choose the healthiest option all of the time, but they will choose it much more often. 

See, this one chose a green coconut! Haha! 

Ok, have a great evening everyone!

:)