the junk food gene - article on passing our food issues to our kids

http://icallherjohn.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-03-29T06%3A27%3A00-07%3A00

go down to monday march 16th - the article is there and seems to all be there - goodhousekeeping does not publish their mag that I could find

anyhow I googled and googled and ended up in this womans blog

what do you guys think - shoudl I buy K a ton of junk food next week and let him goarge? will he make himself sick - agggg parenting - its a PIA

WOW!  Powerful mental imagery on that one! 

I remember when I used to let the girls "shop" for their own lunch stuff and we designated one shelf in the pantry and one shelf in the fridge, it made school lunches and after school snacking "civilized".  The rule was, I would buy enough on the weekend to last the whole week of whatever they wanted in their lunches and after school snacks.

When it was gone, it was gone so if you ate it all early in the week, you were SOL and had to scavenge around in the fridge or pantry.......didn't take them long to figure out to "portion" control what they put in their lunches and snacked on after school before I could get dinner on the table.  They also made some pretty wise choices on the foods they picked for their lunches too.