From a close friend who believes the same way, in many ways, especially when it comes to feeding our kids… 

I often have the same thought when I hear other moms talk about what their kids eat and don’t eat. “Why did you give them a choice from the get go?” We are the parents for a reason and it is as important to impart good nutritional habits on them now as it to impart good morals and values yet nutrition seems to go to the wayside too often! The other night I steamed some clams in garlic, tomato, white wine and a little stock. I served them over rice with a huge salad of baby spinach, arugula, carrots, cucumbers, red peppers, avocado and sprouts. I put a big loaf of freshly made roasted garlic bread and hardly heard them come up for air the entire meal, they loved it! The night before that I had made grilled sea bass with a mango salsa served with fresh green beans and rice, again they loved it! Since this is the food they have only really known…this is the food they eat! It is up to us to feed their bodies so they grow into functioning healthy adults! Sure we love our chips and ice-cream but we don’t have any of that until OUR PLATE IS CLEAN! Mom’s #1 rule!