Quick Break: “Easy Health For Busy Moms: Baby Steps
Hop over today to Visionary Womanhood for a brief break in our series. I’m discussing “Easy Health for Busy Moms: Baby Steps”.
“…as women raising and shaping the next generation, we need to be physically optimal to keep up with the demands of our Kingdom building work. It is also part of our job to protect the health of the family we are raising….
With that said, I’m also a very busy mom living on a budget who still wants to give my family the best nutrition possible. Here are some practical ways I try to implement a healthier diet without breaking the bank or spending all my time sprouting wheat berries.”
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February 7, 2013 2:00 am
Great thoughts as always. I have been trying to overhaul my family’s diet, doing it is baby steps keeps them from going into a full blown panic. My husband is especially hard to convince (35 years of eating “whatever” is difficult to undo.) But we are making progress. Lunch time used to include PBJ, chips, and a piece of fruit. Now it is PBJ (not perfect, but baby steps) fresh veggies and fruit. Occasionally I get requests for chips, but a simple “we don’t have any” stops any whining. My next step is to replace Skippy Peanut butter with organic REAL peanut butter and find something better than jelly. Any suggestions?
What about honey? Or organic jam/preserves?
Rachel–good baby steps. We make a lot of fruit stuff (for pancakes, in yogurt, etc.) from frozen fruit. It’s up to you what you sweeten it with. “Stevia” is supposed to be one of the best, I think? But even raw sugar is better than refined. When we put frozen fruit in yogurt, we just use ripe bananas for sweetener and it is usually enough.
Hi Rachel, we’re taking baby steps, too. I just recently switched us to real peanut butter–nothing but peanuts and salt–which I buy at Organic Harvest when it’s on sale. I like the Field Day brand best. I also recently discovered Smucker’s Simply Fruit jellies at Publix. Every flavor we’ve tried has been delicious. Hope that helps!
our store brand offers real peanut butter with just peanuts and salt. it’s not organic but there’s no way we could afford organic peanut butter. The store brand also has a low sugar ( no splenda or stevia, just lower sugar) jam. We use that when we run out of our freezer raspberry jam. Freezer raspberry jam has less sugar, and it’s a snap to make, much easier than strawberry.