Days like today are what make people give up on their New Years resolutions, and the reason I started this blog, so I had some motivation to keep going. I am not sure whether the disaster came from me being over zealous with the alkaline and trying too many different new foods in one day or the fact that I still need to go grocery shopping, making our options for healthy meals quite limited.
Breakfast: We decided to try millet and followed a recipe very similar to the way we make our oatmeal (which my kids love). I decided to sweeten my with Brown sugar, instead of the maple syrup for now, because I already know that my kids do not like the maple syrup as well when we use that in our oatmeal. Here is the recipe I used, http://www.food.com/recipe/millet-porridge-65734 and I think the recipe in itself is very good, we just were not used to the Millet. It was really the texture that got us, as I thought the taste itself was quite good. I left the raisins on the side, as I have a few children who are not fans of raisins to begin with.
Response, was not very good.
Jade (10) and I both liked, it and would eat it again, but agreed the texture would take a bit getting used to.
The rest thought drowning it in regular syrup would make it better, and some were able to finish it that way. When asked what they thought of it, they said to never make it again.
Lunch: Potato Soup
I knew the results of this going in, but I love potato soup and so does Joy (11) and Eve (3). The rest....not so much. Jade (10) ate it, although it is not her favorite, and the boys ate it only because there was no other option, but did some complaining along the way.
Dinner, now I was really scrambling for something healthy. I found some marinated Tilapia in the freezer that my brother had suggested I buy one time. I was wanting to eat healthier and thought we would give it a try. Yet it has sat in my freezer waiting for me to get brave enough to try fish...as my family DOES NOT eat fish. So I thought, well that is pretty healthy, why not try it tonight? I also made a side dish with, you guessed it . . . millet. I thought maybe it just needed to be made a different way so my kids would like it. But in hindsight, I think it was a little too soon to try Millet again:) So I made a cheesy casserole
http://www.food.com/recipe/herbed-cheese-millet-casserole-320488. I also pulled out the cooked carrots from yesterday and made a brown sugar, ginger sauce to go over them
http://www.food.com/recipe/24k-carrots-152441 (thinking that this would make them more tempting for the people who did not like them yesterday) and pulled out the leftover salad to satisfy the picky eaters.
Results:
Ummm, not so good.
Tae (9) got a sudden headache and decided he was too sick to eat (not sure if this was real or imagined)
Jade, Joy, Blade (4) liked the fish alright. Knight (6) liked it okay until he heard it was fish and then decided maybe he didn't like it anymore. My husband and I forced ourselves to eat the fish, although it was difficult as we don't particularly like fish, although this was particularly well seasoned. Eve (3) wouldn't even allow the fish on her plate.
Fancy cooked carrots--Nobody was a fan of these and Jade who depised them yesterday said, "You thought it would make them better to add sugar to these?" I thought they were pretty tasty, but both Blade and Joy who liked them yesterday plain, did not like them sweet. Note to self, the plain carrots actually went over better than the sweet one.
Millet casserole-- I thought this was decent tasting, slightly salty, but good. Again, the texture got most of my family and was a no go for most of them. All the beautiful cheese on top did not even convince them to eat it. Jade said, "This is breakfast again with cheese added to it!" I guess I can't disguise millet even cooked in a completely different way.
The salad was a welcomed sight for many who quickly grabbed some lettuce so they didn't have to eat the other offerings.
So all in all, I have a lot of kids who weren't very happy with the meals of the day. So it is a good reminder I can't move too fast. Up the vegis and keep things moving in a positive direction, but slow and steady will definitely win this race.
I went grocery shopping tonight, because a bad storm is due to move in and I knew I definitely didn't want to wait a couple more days. All in all, I think I did pretty good. I got lots of greens and vegetables, but then a threw in a couple of old favorites, just to keep moral up. So at some point we will eat some frozen pizza and have some potato chips and dip, but as long as all those vegetables in my fridge don't rot, we will be doing well. Tomorrow is another day and we will try again, although I already promised breakfast pizza (since we missed a couple of birthday breakfasts and we have to make them up.) Maybe I'll feed them a green smoothie with it, so that it can count as something alkaline. Slow and steady, slow and steady, we will get this figured out eventually.
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