Here are a few reasons I hear most often...
"If I don't have any carbs (carbs for them mean bread, pasta, pastries...), then my brain won't get enough glucose to function well."
Hmmm... yes your brain DOES need glucose to work and function well. We do however get PLENTY of glucose from eating foods other than bread. I'm sure you are getting plenty of glucose from drinks, packet stuff (loose term for anything in the middle aisles of the supermarket lol), cereal, and so on. If you are not eating that stuff then surely you will get the glucose your body requires from the other good carbs you DO eat - like vegetables! Yes vegetables are carbohydrates - seems many people think that carbs = only bread, pastries, lollies and so on...
Vegetables are great carbs - you get plenty of fibre and lots of other good stuff from them too! And you don't have to worry about calorie counting or anything - eat as much veges as you want! Go on I dare you. See if you can overeat on veges like people can with bags of chips, donuts, pastries and the like...
But can you can only eat vegetables for dinner right?
"What will we eat for breakfast?"
It's as if the breakfast
people - whoever they are - have brainwashed us into thinking that we
have to have some cereal and toast for breakfast.
I remember we were ALWAYS having
toast for breakfast. I would ALWAYS be starving by 10am when I was at
school which meant getting something to eat for the tuck shop at
interval - usually a pie - and then eating whatever lunch I had at
lunchtime (sandwiches or fruit or something) and then still being hungry
when we had rugby training after school. Good times..
Anyway
toast seems to be something you have with every breakfast. Eggs on
toast, bacon and eggs on toast, spaghetti on toast, whatever spread on
toast, toast on toast...
YES there are other options!
We have found last night's dinner to be a great breakfast. So is avocado and eggs, bacon and eggs, omelets,
spinach, eggs and tomato; there are SO MANY options here using veges in the fridge (yes those ones that usually go from shopping day to shopping day and stay in there until you throw them out when you buy more of the same veges that you throw out after next shopping day!), and left overs from last night's dinner. Overeat on those veges! go on!!
I find this kind of breakfast
lasts me a good 4 hours easy. In fact sometimes I don't even feel hungry
at all.. I know the kids love a good breakfast too - they have slowly gone off the Weetbix, cornflakes and other cereals and enjoy wholesome full breakfasts before they take off to school! Which leads to the next question...
"What will the kids take to school for lunch?"
Well, they can actually survive quite well on a range of other foods that do not include wheat based products. In fact it did take a while for our own kids to change to having chicken and roast veges (in coconut oil of course!) for lunch in their little lunch boxes. Other kids would tease them about their funny looking lunch that doesn't have white bread wrapped around it.
However we told our kids to just be happy that they are eating REAL food and that their bodies and minds would do better with this better food. Funny thing was our daughter started telling all those cheeky ones that they would be the ones getting sick when they are older hahaha...
Mind you, it would have been easy for us to just say "OK take your sandwiches to school" cause what parent wants their kids to get teased? In fact ALOT easier cause we wouldn't have to spend so much more time cooking their lunches in the morning or the night before. And it would have been alot cheaper too (at the moment the kids are eating lots of chicken!).
While it is more effort, I do believe the better health outcomes for the kids in the future is worth it. Stuff that is worth it is always more effort - that's just the way it is.
Tune in next week as I blog about our eating adventures in the States - should be interesting...
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