Last Day of Christmas Break

Okay, almost off of Christmas break, and the last day that we have some extra time to focus on meals, tomorrow we will be in the back to school rush so we will have to see how that goes.

Breakfast--Oatmeal

We always add some brown sugar and the kids like blueberries mixed in.  We were out of blueberries so they got a choice of either peaches or blackberries today. 

My kids love oatmeal cooked like this.  I still had left over millet cooked this exact way, so I threw in a cup into the batch and nobody noticed they were getting an extra little dose of millet in there.  It worked wonderfully.

Lunch--Sandwiches

I had some bread left over that needed to be used up so we just had some turkey sandwiches.  The kicker this time was that they had to have either tomato or lettuce on their sandwich.   Some chose tomato, others lettuce, and a couple like Blade chose both:)

I also wanted them to have a real vegetable.  So I cut up some fresh zucchini and told them that if they ate the four pieces of zucchini they got, they could have the potato chips that they had been eying since I brought them home from the grocery store.  This was incredibly motivating and every single person ate their zucchini!  Yea!!!!!  We had to get a bit creative with Eve, but even my non-vegetable-eating girl ate every piece of  her zucchini, even if it meant getting a small piece of chip for each small bite of zucchini and a big chip for each big bite.  I know some people would think this was sinful to bribe vegetable eating with potato chips, but at the point in the game that we are at, it worked beautifully.  I am hoping that the.y will become accustomed to these tastes and eventually like them and choose them over less healthy alternatives.  We will see if it works this way.

Dinner--Lemon Garlic Chicken over potatoes, cheesy broccoli

http://www.food.com/recipe/amazing-baked-lemon-garlic-chicken-thighs-and-potatoes-346661

I don't know if I would call it amazing, but the chicken was eaten a lot better than the potatoes.  Because I had some Velveta cheese sauce on the steamed Broccoli, it went over pretty well. Again it is through the small and simple steps that we can meet our ultimate goal.  I made 2 lbs of frozen broccoli and almost all of it was eaten, so I am feeling pretty good, even if it meant we had to cancel out some of our Alkaline benefits by adding Velveta:)