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What's for Dinner?
“What's for dinner?” is a common refrain at our house.
“Um, I don't know. Good question,” is often the answer.
I'm a failure at meal planning. Maybe it's because I'm not a skilled cook? Maybe it's because I tend to be disorganized? Maybe because I'm a “live for the moment” kind of girl? I don't know. I've tried. I've assigned days for meal planning, joined websites, written down recipes, planned my grocery list around meals, but nothing really seems to stick.
I want to do better, I really do. My lack of organization in this area leads to more expensive and less healthy choices, often including fast food. The Center for Science in the Public Interest recently released a report indicating that almost every possible combination of kid's meals at Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, Sonic, Burger King and Chick-fil-A are too high in calories. The only restaurant that fared even remotely well in the study of kid's meals was Subway, with a mini sub, juice box, and raisins, yogurt or apple slices combo meal.
There are also concerns that the consistency of the offerings on kid's menus trains kids to view these unhealthy choices as typical meal choices. “Parents want to feed their children healthy meals, but America's chain restaurants are setting parents up to fail,” CSPI nutrition policy director Margo G. Wootan said in a statement regarding the study. “McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and other chains are conditioning kids to expect burgers, fried chicken, pizza, french fries, macaroni and cheese, and soda in various combination at almost every lunch and dinner.”
It does seem that even the most picky of eaters can still find something to satisfy them off of a kid's menu. Unfortunately, they're not always so thrilled about the balanced meals that we offer at home, and although at my house we have the “You get what you get and you don't get upset” policy, I do hate to see them go to bed without eating something that resembles a meal for dinner.
I want them to have more cultured palates and know nothing other than a balanced meal. But mostly I want to get them fed. With as little hassle as possible. Sometimes convenience is necessary to make life run smoothly, at least in our household. I'm going to hold tight to the “everything in moderation” philosophy and count on their wild energy burning off the occasional calorie overdose.
Because sometimes I have no idea what's for dinner.
“Um, I don't know. Good question,” is often the answer.
I'm a failure at meal planning. Maybe it's because I'm not a skilled cook? Maybe it's because I tend to be disorganized? Maybe because I'm a “live for the moment” kind of girl? I don't know. I've tried. I've assigned days for meal planning, joined websites, written down recipes, planned my grocery list around meals, but nothing really seems to stick.
I want to do better, I really do. My lack of organization in this area leads to more expensive and less healthy choices, often including fast food. The Center for Science in the Public Interest recently released a report indicating that almost every possible combination of kid's meals at Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, Sonic, Burger King and Chick-fil-A are too high in calories. The only restaurant that fared even remotely well in the study of kid's meals was Subway, with a mini sub, juice box, and raisins, yogurt or apple slices combo meal.
There are also concerns that the consistency of the offerings on kid's menus trains kids to view these unhealthy choices as typical meal choices. “Parents want to feed their children healthy meals, but America's chain restaurants are setting parents up to fail,” CSPI nutrition policy director Margo G. Wootan said in a statement regarding the study. “McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and other chains are conditioning kids to expect burgers, fried chicken, pizza, french fries, macaroni and cheese, and soda in various combination at almost every lunch and dinner.”
It does seem that even the most picky of eaters can still find something to satisfy them off of a kid's menu. Unfortunately, they're not always so thrilled about the balanced meals that we offer at home, and although at my house we have the “You get what you get and you don't get upset” policy, I do hate to see them go to bed without eating something that resembles a meal for dinner.
I want them to have more cultured palates and know nothing other than a balanced meal. But mostly I want to get them fed. With as little hassle as possible. Sometimes convenience is necessary to make life run smoothly, at least in our household. I'm going to hold tight to the “everything in moderation” philosophy and count on their wild energy burning off the occasional calorie overdose.
Because sometimes I have no idea what's for dinner.
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