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Michelle's Tips For 'Little Ones': Make a Healthy Grocery List with Construction Paper
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Posted on 08/09/2013 2:11:45 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Michelle's Tips For 'Little Ones': Make a Healthy Grocery List with Construction Paper

August 9, 2013 - 3:56 PM By Elizabeth Harrington

(CNSNews.com) - First Lady Michelle Obama's "Lets Move!" anti-obesity campaign is out with a new set of tips to get "little ones" to eat healthy, including making grocery lists with construction paper.

Mrs. Obama's campaign posted a list of tips from Summer Lettau, a child care provider in Michigan, on "teaching young kids to choose healthy options—and enjoy them!"

"Check out her tips to get inspired and help you teach your little ones about eating healthy," said "Let's Move!"

Among the tips are "celebrate veggies" and "get kids shopping."

"When Summer heads to the grocery store, she takes her kids along," the post says. "To get ready for the trip, kids make their own grocery lists of healthy foods and glue together pieces of construction paper in different colors."

"At the store, they get what’s on their lists and hunt for a vegetable or fruit that matches each of their colors (like purple cabbage, red peppers, orange tangerines, and yellow squash)," it says. "Try this activity with your kids. If you are too busy for the paper and glue, just try telling your kids a color. To encourage them to be adventurous, try pointing out vegetables and fruits they haven’t tried yet."

Other tips encourage parents to "try bringing your little ones into the kitchen."

Lettau also instructs parents to "celebrate veggies."

"Instead of hiding vegetables in foods, the children know what is in our food because they help to prepare it,” she said. “We celebrate how many different veggies we can incorporate and how many unhealthy foods we can substitute with nutritious foods.

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How condescending............
1 posted on 08/09/2013 2:11:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

They will just eat the library paste!


2 posted on 08/09/2013 2:13:54 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Sub-Driver

Are they giving out free construction paper now?


3 posted on 08/09/2013 2:15:25 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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To: Sub-Driver

hey 1st bigfoot, could ya make a constitution on construction paper and read it to the 1st gay president?


4 posted on 08/09/2013 2:15:37 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Sub-Driver

"...but did Joe Biden give up his PlayDO?

5 posted on 08/09/2013 2:15:53 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Sub-Driver

Next, she’ll be forcing us to read cursive handwriting.


6 posted on 08/09/2013 2:18:06 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Sub-Driver

Any mother knows that you HAVE to hide the veggies in the kids food if you are to have any prayer of the kids actually EATING them.


7 posted on 08/09/2013 2:19:05 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sub-Driver

And are her “healthy” options still going to be the low-fat, high-carb, franken-food options that have caused the obesity epedemic?


8 posted on 08/09/2013 2:20:58 PM PDT by jdege
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And are her “healthy” options still going to be the low-fat, high-carb, franken-food options that have caused the obesity epedemic?

You know it. It's government-approved, after all.

9 posted on 08/09/2013 2:21:51 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I remember in 3rd grade, a kid in my class ate LePages white paste. I guess it was edible because he survived.......................


10 posted on 08/09/2013 2:22:58 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Sub-Driver

“Little Ones” tip to Michelle. Be quite and just leave already.


11 posted on 08/09/2013 2:23:24 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: Sub-Driver

Construction Paper(sugar paper)


12 posted on 08/09/2013 2:23:52 PM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: Sub-Driver
Today my teenage daughter was creating an Excel spreadsheet for all of her newspaper and on-line coupons that she uses to save our household money.

Hey Sasquatch, shut up and get your fat ass out of our way!

13 posted on 08/09/2013 2:24:17 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

There was even some peppermint flavor!


14 posted on 08/09/2013 2:26:22 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Sub-Driver

No kidding-I’m so glad she has time to make grocery lists out of construction paper...

My cub learned to eat the veggies the same way I did-they were on the damn plate from day one, fresh from the garden, steamed and seasoned so that they tasted like real food, and you eat what is on the plate, like your parents do, no bribery, construction paper games etc required-the kid still loves veggies...


15 posted on 08/09/2013 2:27:22 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

edible paper: the best idea since candy cigarettes!


16 posted on 08/09/2013 2:27:58 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Not if you start serving veggies from the gitgo and the kid gets used to eating what mom and dad eat for dinner-works like a charm.


17 posted on 08/09/2013 2:30:30 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Sub-Driver

When the first whale drops half her ass weight due to proper eating, then maybe she’ll have an ounce of credibility on lecturing others about their nutritional choices.

Paula Dean got taken down because she embarassed First Orca by talking about how much she ate and all the bad food she liked to eat. that open mic didn’t happen randomly. They had people that were looking for any slip-ups to then come down on her with.


18 posted on 08/09/2013 2:32:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Sub-Driver

A health tip from a conservative: given as a suggestion.

A health tip from a collectivist: You will do what I say, or you will pay dearly.


19 posted on 08/09/2013 2:34:12 PM PDT by lurk
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To: Texan5

Never hid the veggies and fruits in our house either

Kids ate what the grow-ups ate as soon as they could get it from the plate to their mouths.

When my little one was 5, I had a grape tomato plant that I never got a ‘mater off of because the little one was picking and eating them as soon as they were ripe :-) (I didn’t mind - he really loved them)


20 posted on 08/09/2013 2:42:22 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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