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 optionsand 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 whats 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 havent 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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Well, what would you expect from someone whose base consist of many who get free sodas, chips, cookies and other welfare crap to feed their kids instead of being hands on parents who actually care about their kids’ health.
My kids (five and two) eat avocados, whole oatmeal with cinnamon, asparagus, sweet potatoes, steak, salmon, cashews, and black bean soup, just to name a few. I bake them sourdough and rosemary foccacia. The jam on their PB&Js is made from berries they helped me pick. I don’t need Mooch to tell me how to feed, or suggest ways to feed, my children. She can blow it out her two ax handles wide a$$. Also, I don’t buy Big Govs food pyramid either. Since we cut out refined carbs and increased our fat intake, we haven’t really had to watch our weight. Of course exercise is still a must. Shove it Mooch! It should all fit up there!
No, SD, they think everyone is as stupid as their Chicago constituents. Talking down to 50 IQ morons is all they know. Geez, maybe they’re right?
I used the Dave Ramsey method when grocery shopping with little kids - if it isn’t on the list, we aren’t getting it.
They quickly started trying to learn how to spell, with the oldest scrawling “ice cream”, “cookies” and other snacks with mispellings until my son got the bright idea to get the wrappers of what they just ate to write down on the list.
Then they started listing things they saw on commercials. Except for the occasional fruit, very little was within Michelle Obama’s healthy eating guidelines.
But we don’t shop based on what kids want - we do what is best for the family. Adults SHOULD do that. The Obamas assume the adults are as incapable as the children.
When I go to the nearest supermarket 22 miles away, that crap is all you see in the carts of the fatass welfare divas with lonestar cards-not even a carrot in sight-just frozen junk, little debbies, etc. And the first sasquatch eats way too many carbs and sweets, you can bet-just look at the size of those thunder thighs...
Hey-it works-if it is not boiled to death and bland, kids will eat what is in front of them if you start early enough.
I was brought up in the country, so if it wasn’t in the garden, and it wasn’t on the list when mom went to town, it wasn’t available.
The raccoons here are very fond of grape tomatoes, so I always let plenty of them go to seed.
Same here. My mom started us on a good diet. I still love Brussels sprouts and other good stuff others can’t stand. Until recently I have eaten what I wanted and never had an extra pound. Age does take it’s toll, tho. I’ Still slim by most standards.
My mom used to hide the my veggies with mashed potatoes it is delicious
I always like tomatoes I could eat them just like that having veggie garden in my parent backyard for while that works
Moooooooochelle would have everyone eating sand before long if she had her way. Of all people she could use a little sand herself with that derriere she drags around.
Get cut veggies, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, etc and serve them with dip. Yummy. Now I have to go get some.
shut your fat pie hole MO
I wonder if she can read cursive.
And she eats like a pig at every function with free food.
When my kids can stand in line at the cashier & pay for what they choose off their own list, then they can do such a list.
Until then, I am making the choices.
What else is a parent supposed to do?
Most of these kids cannot make a decision worthy of repeating. They are NOT going to purchase groceries with ‘their list’.
The price of ‘construction paper’ isn’t cheap, either.
Even at 58 I would eat only the tangerines from that list.
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