No like!

Emma "no likes" apple pie and chocolate milk...I'm going to go ahead and assume she doesn't like baseball either.  HA!

I gave E. a teaspoon of chocolate syrup in her milk after nap, thinking it would be a fun surprise treat for her...not so much.  At least she's rejecting "not so great" food choices and 95% of the time, she's still a great eater and we are thankful for that.

We are trying to get her to prefer the good stuff in these critical food years, not the crappy addictive stuff that is causing obesity in the US.  I talked with the pediatrician about trying to live healthy and she said it's an uphill battle, because of course the junk is everywhere and it's impossible to control when your children go off to school, spend the night at friends, family etc.  We do eat treats but in moderation; we don't want her raiding the pantry at others houses and gorging herself on sugar elsewhere because she isn't allowed to have any at home.

The interesting battle is "juice".  Apparently the older generation was taught to give juice as a source of vitamin C.  You wouldn't believe the looks we get when we say she can't have juice.  They also ask, "how is she going to get Vit. C?". Um, by eating mandarin oranges, peaches, pears and grapes.

The other night Doug and I were laughing at our obsession over E's diet and keeping the high levels of sugar and high fructose corn syrup out of our pantry.  I am actually stunned at how aware Doug is of ingredient labels now.  He called me out for buying the Quaker Oatmeal To Go bars...they have like 20 grams of sugar!  

We have witnessed other kids all jacked up on crap and how their behavior escalates with the sugar intake.  No thanks, the toddler insanity is enough on it's own without external forces amping her up.  We gave E. a store bought cupcake on her birthday and within 20 mins she wasn't able to control herself or listen to direction.  We took her for a walk around the block to burn the sugar off and said, "never again".n There were still a few more cupcakes left but we scraped the icing off!  I know, scraping icing off is crazy talk.