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03 Dec 2009

Healthy Eating doesn’t mean perfection!

posted by: Kia

I think as parents we can sometimes be pretty hard on ourselves! When it comes to feeding our children we all want them to be eating healthy well balanced meals but sometimes we fall short. I don’t think the goal should be perfection when it comes to healthy eating. My friend Ange (who’s a nutritionist) talks about a 80/20 split, meaning that if you are making healthy eating choices 80% of the time then your body will be strong enough to handle the 20% of the time that you don’t eat healthy! This is a very doable way to look at healthy eating! We all have our weak spots when it comes to food that isn’t healthy but we enjoy anyway So why bother feeling guilty when you or your children indulge in an occasional treat! As long as everyone in your family is doing a great job of eating healthy foods most of the time (this means lots of fruits and veggies!) then you can feel comfortable knowing that your bodies are strong enough to handle the occasional junk food. The health problems come up with that eating model is switched around!!

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This entry was posted on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 am and is filed under Healthy Nutrition. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!

2 Responses to “Healthy Eating doesn’t mean perfection!”

Dara Squires says:

January 11, 2010 at 4:20 pm

Our chart arrived today. This evening after supper, we showed it to the kids. I explained to them how it works and we talked about what we had eaten today.
Without the chart I would have never known that my son ATE A RAINBOW. It’s very difficult to get him to eat vegetables, but he loves fruit.
The only one he was missing was purple, so both of them decided to have raisins for their bedtime snack.
Day 1 and we have two happy rainbow eaters. They claim there’s a pot of gold in their stomach.
Without your chart I would have never realised how good they actually are eating. You’re right; we do stress out about it too much sometimes.
I think the chart is just as handy for the parents as it is encouraging for the children!
Can’t wait to finish our trial so I can write about it in my column!
Kia says:

January 11, 2010 at 9:58 pm

Thank you for your fantastic feedback Dara! I love that they said there is a pot of gold in their stomach…so cute!

Keep us posted on how things go!

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