So what IS a healthy diet?

[LowLevelWhiingeing]

I've been thinking a lot about health for one reason and another and I really want to teach my kids good habits. I am quite inspired by the Jamie Oliver programmes and have found myself thinking, "Would Jamie eat this/feed his kids this?"

But I also find it quite confusing. DP is currently eating a super-healthy diet which is waaaaay to restrictive for me. I need food to be enjoyable and not a punishment and being a Susie Orbach devotee, I need to have a positive, enjoyable relationship with food which is nurturing and physically and emotionally healthy.

I want to teach my children to understand when they are hungry and when they are full - not to keep on eating because you have to clear your plate or whatever.

As a start, I'm cutting out processed foods from our cupboards and I'm getting back into cooking. I don't want to have a perfect athlete's diet and I don't want 'Dr' Gillian McKeith bollocks supplements.

I do want us to eat real foods, which can include treats.

Any thoughts, or am I just rambling now?

For a healthy diet I take that to mean a balance of carbs protein and fibre and fats
keeping the source of each of these on the natural side with an understanding that a chocolate bar during the week doesn't cancel out all the good things we have eaten.

plenty of veg, some fruit, I find it is easier to get the kids to eat fruit as it is chocked full of sweetness and sugar.

we are far from perfect we have a treat tin which contains mini bars of twix or maalteasers etc they are allowed one thing from the tin each day.

they have a breakfast of cereals with semi skimmed milk (cornflakes, rice krispies, shreddies, or cheerios)
a cooked lunch at school
a home cooked meal in the evening mix of meat or fish carbs and veg with fruit for pudding

I have no worries that they eat snacks
I don't want to be over concerned about food mainly because I don't want them to be over concerned. IYKWIM