Comments on: 5 Strategies to Help Your Husband and Kids Transition to Real Food

By: Mandi @ Life Your Way

Mandi @ Life Your Way — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:48:41 +0000

Hi Amy! It's the brownie recipe from my Easy Homemade ebook (easyhomemade.net), but you could take any homemade brownie recipe and just substitute coconut sugar and melted butter for refined sugar and oil. Then I just swirled in some natural peanut butter, which is my very favorite way to make brownies!

Hope that helps!

By: First Steps to Eating for Fertility

First Steps to Eating for Fertility — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:00:41 +0000

[...] homemade popcorn and ice cream.......while my husband still munched away at a bag of potato chips. (And it's really OK if your husband isn't on board right away; he'll get [...]

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:44:34 +0000

Thanks for the post! That pan of chocolately swirled stuff at the beginning...might that be a good whole foods recipe? If so, would you share it?

By: Week in Review (1-26-13)

Week in Review (1-26-13) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:58:00 +0000

[...] 5 Strategies to Help Your Husband & Kids Transition to Real Food had some great ideas for implementing changes to your diet when your family might not be excited about change. [...]

By: Jennifer G

Jennifer G — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:28:14 +0000

It's funny that you mention pepper sticks. When I was a kid, I thought I was so grown up because I liked green bell peppers and radishes. Maybe I didn't like them so much as the "grown-up" feeling, because as an adult I don't like either of these veggies. Toss me some red or gold bell peppers and I'm all over those, though.

By: Weekend Reading: January 26, 2013 | Life Your Way

Weekend Reading: January 26, 2013 | Life Your Way — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:02:02 +0000

[...] 5 Strategies to Help Your Husband and Kids Transition to Real Food | Keeper of the Home *This week I shared some more of our real food journey at Keeper of the Home [...]

By: Finding Real Food in the Grocery Store

Finding Real Food in the Grocery Store — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:49:14 +0000

[...] which are largely GMO. But if your hubby absolutely must have his sweet tea with white sugar, don't cause a fuss. Let him. Oh, and leave behind the brown sugar, Karo syrup, agave nectar, and ANY artificial [...]

By: Tasha

Tasha — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:03:13 +0000

Stephanie, that is where I am right now. I am switching things out and adding the healthy alternative. I avoid re-buying the processed version--though my husband is on a very different page than I am. I have started to make my own salad dressings and things as well.

You mentioned your son likes packaged things. As I am changing my kids over, I remove all cookies/granola bars and everything from the original package and send it in a container. They are still getting the "junk", but they have lost the fancy packaging, so when I send homemade, it is very similar. :)

By: Susan Jerby

Susan Jerby — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:30:02 +0000

Thanks for this post. We are in the process of moving to real foods. It definitely takes baby steps! The two things that have helped the most with our children is growing our own fruit and veggies (that they helped to plant, weed, pick and cook) and reading food labels with them. We are still trying to use up some of our packaged foods, but after reading the labels, one of my daughters won't have any part in eating them!

By: Pam@behealthybehappywellness

Pam@behealthybehappywellness — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:07:08 +0000

Great suggestions - and so true. It took me at least a dozen times of introducing spinach, but now my son (age 6) is a huge fan - raw, sauteed, in smoothies, etc. I also trained MYSELF to like mushrooms. It took a while, but now I like most of them.