I can't say for other families, but my family has always tended to eat this way
no matter what. When I met my husband, he only ate once a day and I was
the one who nagged him into eating breakfast and lunch. These days, I just don't
cook those two meals: if he wants to snack, he snacks.
My kids do snack whenever they want. There is lunchmeat available, and
cheese, and fruit, and milk products, toast, and cookies (gluten free, in our case).
I make one big meal. Mostly that's plenty. Mostly they are happy when I don't
nag them to eat.
We've never actually had the issue where kids skip a meal and then pig
out on candy, so it's not something I've had to address. They tend to dislike
most candy except very high-end chocolates.
And yes, it's just a way of life at this point. It's pretty much the habit I had
when I was in college, and how my husband lived before I met him. We cook
almost all our own food, and doing 3 full meals is just too darn much work.
My daughter though thinks the constant preoccupation with food is kind of
weird, when she's around other kids who are always eating. She says they
are "hobbits", eating 6+ meals a day. She refuses to bring food to school,
because she says she'd rather do other things at lunchtime. Both she and
my husband though have the habit of having sweet milky coffee for breakfast, which
is interesting because that is the tradition in Germany too.
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, hsmom73 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Hi, I'm glad to have found your group! I have several questions and hope there are some people who can help me.
1. How do you Fast-5 with kids? I am preparing and handling food ALL day long and am finding it so hard. The book talks about extra time once a person doesn't have to prepare and eat several meals and I wish for that, but my kids expect to eat! :) And how do you prepare food if you can't taste test it?
2. When do you exercise? I've always exercised around 8pm, but now that is during my window and am finding it slightly uncomfortable exercising with food in my stomach.
3. Is this a permanent way of life for most of you? How has that been? What does it look like over the course of years?
Thanks!
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