Comments on: What’s In Your Grocery Cart?

By: Nia Shanks

Nia Shanks — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:44:32 +0000

Great post. Most people forget how important nutrition can be and how difficult it is for some people to identify healthy food choices at the grocery store.

Great job!

By: Julie C

Julie C — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:49:55 +0000

Love this one Holly!!!! The food portion is always the most difficult for me

By: Elisa

Elisa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:02:32 +0000

Hehehe Alison. You are awesome for posting this video. My video would be short and boring….most stuff in bulk bags. ALSO, it gives me a heads up on the challenges my son will face once he begins grade one in the fall and has to bring his own lunch each day. I may actually be able to bring him lunch each day as my nephew will be in the afternoon class and we can just all have lunch together there. Thanks for posting this Holly….I am now prepared for the fall now HAHA.

By: Dayle

Dayle — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:11:26 +0000

Thanks very much for posting this -it was an eye opener for some of the things that are allowed -I never would have guessed Chedder Bunnies! (Although I’ve never seen them where I live, so I haven’t read the ingredient list)
I’ve been “phasing out” the less healthy options in my home by not replacing when they run out, however my difficulty is with my husband. What do you do when you come home with 1 small bag of organic cookies expecting them to last a month (1 cookie as a treat every once in a while) and your hubbie eats the bag in 2 days! Ugh!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:55:30 +0000

While I have already started the process to overhaul my kitchen, I can see I still have a lot of work to do. I am so guilty of the whole “but it’s for the kids” scenario. Then I help them eat it! I am throwing out the pancake syrup when I get home from work! My husband and I have already started offering fruit options as afterschool snacks. I have already noticed my kids eat a better supper if they aren’t full of junk. Thanks for the great insight — so many questions I had have been answered. I can’t fuss at my kids for being junk food junkies if I don’t step up to the plate and show them how.

By: Judy

Judy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:58:39 +0000

It is wonderful for relationships when sharing with neighbors for it shows love and concern. But, when we share cookies or other such things, we are showing love by making them sick. What can we offer to them that would be healthy instead? The normal homemade bread may not be good either. All I can think of are our homemade banana chips.

By: Connie Chorney

Connie Chorney — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:03:43 +0000

Thank you for sharing this Holly and Alison. It really helped to open up my eyes to take a better look what’s in my cupboards (and in my grocery cart). I’m very guilty at saying this is for my children and/or my husband. It doesn’t have to be that way so we are all hopefully slowly changing.

Connie

By: rebecca hayward

rebecca hayward — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:52:38 +0000

When kids get used to healthy, nourishing food they WANT it! Sometimes people like at us funny when we’re grocery shopping and my 5-year-old yells, “Broccoli, my favorite!” Or, “Mommy, can we buy some more kale??” Taste is a completely changeable thing — if your kids adapt to junk, that’s what they want. If they adapt to healthy stuff, that’s what they want. I find it’s actually easier to be strict and educate them on why then it is try to be loose and then artificially keep control on it. That way they can pretty much have whatever they want, as much as they want, in the house.

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:44:08 +0000

Great post Holly!!! Thank you SO much for taking the time to review my foods. You are so right about EVERYTHING! I am printing this out, and will have answers to all of the questions soon.

This is going to be the summer for change in our home! Thanks again for everything!