We have always had a massive variety of wholefoods for our family meals - loads of veggies, lentils, lean meat, liver,fish, brown rice & pasta etc. DCs eat pretty much all of it, and love my cooking. He's obviously had parties and eaten lots of crap, and we have tins of rice pudding and jelly sometimes etc.
But since going to school, he has started talking a lot about things being healthy and unhealthy. He spent a while asking me whether what he was having was healthy or un - labelling foods in his mind - which pissed me off, because I believe far more important is the overall combination of foods you are taking in, not individual items.
He came home from school today and asked for an 'unhealthy snack'. FFS. I think this is misguided, and we are trying to educate the wrong people about healthy snacking. If they didn't have many crap foods on offer, it wouldn't be the onus on the child to choose the healthy option at school or elsewhere.
Its an independent school, but obv this is an initiative across the board. I think its arse over tit. AIBU?
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To be pissed off my 4 yo had to learn about 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' foods
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JumpRope · 11/02/2014 21:24
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