Restoring Healthy & Harmonious Family Meals
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June 14, 2012
7– 9 p.m.
at La Altura Pediatrics, Dominion Hills Plaza 21195 IH-10 West, Suite 2101 San Antonio, Texas 78257
Are meals a battle?
Having trouble getting kids to eat at the table?
Have you become a short order cook?
Do you make two different meals for one family?
Through this interactive workshop, you will:
Check out Debi Pfitzenmaier’s blog post on Sacred Appetite’s free San Antonio workshop for parents on May 5!
The workshop, “How to Shepherd Your Child’s Appetite,” will be held at La Altura Pediatrics from 9-11 a.m. Space is limited. To register, email anna@annamigeon.com.
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May 5, 2012,
9 – 11 a.m.
at La Altura Pediatrics: Dominion Hills Plaza 21195 IH-10 West, Suite 2101 San Antonio, Texas 78257
Are meals a battle?
Having trouble getting kids to eat at the table?
Have you become a short order cook?
Do you make two different meals for one family?
Through this interactive workshop, you will:
“We wonder how we get started doing these things, but we do them.”
My friend told me that as part of my babysitting instructions. Lunch for her 2 1/2-year-old, Kaylee, and her 18-month-old, Wee Man, was to include some cut up, raw red peppers.
“He’ll spit them out. So I started peeling them for him,” she explained, with some embarrassment. These kids hadn’t been picky; they had been the kids who ate everything a few months earlier.
Preparing for resistance: holding firm
“I do not get started doing these things,” I said to myself. I wasn’t about to start peeling raw red peppers to try to get Wee Man to eat them, because that right…
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As of Tuesday, a White House task force made up of cabinet secretaries and other officials has 90 days to come up with a strategy to reduce childhood obesity. It’s a worthy use of their time. One-third of American 8- to 10-year-olds are now obese.
I’m sure the first thing this bureaucratic task force will no doubt tackle is the government’s own role in causing the problem. Our food system, which includes government subsidies for growing the ingredients of processed foods, notably the ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup, has conspired to make junk foods the cheapest eats option. We pay the huge food companies to grow and produce junk food, and they in turn spend millions on advertising to kids and the rest of us.
I bet the first thing the task force will do is to insist we quit subsidizing processed…
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ARE YOU hoping to get better results this year as you try to get your children to eat more healthfully, without turning the dinner table into a battle ground? Anna Migeon, author of the blog “Sacred Appetite” and mom of two teens who have always eaten anything put on the table, from cow tongue and liver to tofu and turnips, with never an argument (well, once there was an argument), is starting a free discussion /support in her home in San Antonio, where one in three kids is obese. Starting Feb. 19, she’ll share her successful techniques for raising kids who eat absolutely everything. Topics to be included:
· Key common mistakes to avoid if you want your child to eat healthfully now and for life.
· “Masterly Inactivity,” or how…
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Much of what I have to say about feeding children comes from my experience with my son, which I haven’t said much about here at “Sacred Appetite.”
Almost from birth, my son had symptoms: of what, we didn’t know. I later came to blame it all on him being put on antibiotics at birth and the hospital failing to give him the breast milk I was pumping faithfully while he couldn’t nurse because of the IV stuck in his head. I also wonder what role the immunizations he got as a tiny infant (who stayed home with his mom, risking no illnesses) might have played.
Starting early and continuing, he had asthma, insomnia, enuresis (a fancy word for bed-wetting), digestion-related ills, crusty eyes,…
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Sunday
Artichokes with vinaigrette (https://www.thehappydinnertable.com/2009/07/11/slow-food-the-conversational-recreational-artichoke-for-kids-of-all-ages/)
Tuna on tuna (https://www.thehappydinnertable.com/2009/07/10/“tuna-on-tuna”-or-fresh-tuna-with-tuna-pickle-sauce/)
Tomato, cucumber, black olive and feta salad with vinaigrette
Monday
Creamed onions with sage and thyme (Food & Wine)
Boiled potatoes
Roasted red peppers with vinaigrette
Leftover menudo from a church sale
Tuesday
Appetizers: Roasted red peppers with vinaigrette, fresh basil pesto from the garden on crackers, goat cheese on toast
Dinner: Turkey meatball Albondigas soup (Bon Appétit )
Salad from the garden with shallot vinaigrette
Wednesday
Omelet with leftover Kale and Olives (Food & Wine)
Boxed tomato soup (an organic 32-oz. find at the 99 Only Store)
Thursday
Creamy Fettuccine with Prosciutto, Asparagus, Mushrooms and Peas (Bon Appétit) (made at the request of my daughter and against my better judgment because of the carbs and salty processed meat. It was scrumptious, though)
Light cream of celery soup (Moosewood Cookbook)
Friday
Leftovers from Thursday
Saturday
Spinach crepes bernoise (delicious! An old favorite of ours, filled with chicken livers, mushrooms, cream cheese, dill, green onions) (The…
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Do you dream of getting your hands on some raw, local, organically produced milk from grass-fed, pastured cows at a reasonable price? Do you love the idea of making your own simple, old-fashioned cultured milk products?
Where there’s a will, there’s probably a way.
I am getting three gallons of good raw milk every other week from a farm in the area. I make four quarts of delicious and nutritious yogurt for about $7 every other week. It’s extremely simple and satisfying. It’s an easy way to be more self-reliant and less dependent on industrial food corporations. It’s also a great way to give your kids a closer relationship to food and its magic.
The sources for good raw milk tend to be more underground than otherwise, but such sources…
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