Monica/ How many times a week do you...?

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OH MY!!!!!!!! You guys are crazy:) Linda~ you are wise woman. I totally agree

with what you said! So many things are getting in the way of families

connecting around the table and good food! It makes me crazy~ when we are at

home the atmosphere is controlable, but on occasion we eat out as a family and

always atleast one tv on in the restaurant!!!!!!!!!!! I will look around and

see people totally mouths gaping, stufffing their faces plugged into the tv and

unplugged from their kids, wife, significant other,etc!!!!!!!!! ugh. Makes so

much sense to just stay home and avoid it. Just my .02 on that.....

 

My kids are 10 and 7. So, we haven't hit the teenage appetite years yet~ but

already when kids are over I find it very hard to feed everybody good stuff

without totally breaking the bank. ANd I find myself very tense when I see kids

that are used to eating crap throw our more expensive food in the trash or say,

" I don't like the way the bread tastes " . So, we do lots of bean

burritos,fruit,etc. But I am concerned about when they are older and their

friends(most have like minded parents, but a few do not) are turning their

noses up at the organic black bean chips and asking for (gasp) Doritos and

Cokes or something.....and I DO want my house to be the place to be....I know

of health minded moms who compromised in their kids teenage years and just

kept junk in the house so all the kids would hang out there, and not be at

someone else's house. One mom whom I admire said she felt it was a small price

to pay (LOTS of $$ for junk food, etc) to know where her teens were and

more importantly, WHAT they were doing. So, what do you do? I guess I have a

few years to think this thru.....

 

And as for the husband thing....what they don't know won't hurt them....Just

kidding....sort of. My husband doesn't tell me EVERY cent he spends on his

beloved muscle car hobby~ must I disclose EVERY penny extra eating organically

and mindfully costs us? Really, he is awesome, and I adore the very ground he

walks on:) He just thinks I could shop around a little more for the right

price.

 

PT, thanks for saying I am spending wisely:) You made me laugh with your

comment about patchouli being in the fibers of your hippie clothes....I can

relate! Everywhere we go, either people love or hate the essential oil cloud

(think Pigpen on Charlie Brown) we walk around in. We don't put a lot on, it is

just in everything we use(soap,shampoo, laundry det, etc). There is such an

accumulation of so many different oils I don't know what people are smelling.

One day dh said one of his classmates asked him why he always smelled of fresh

cut wood.....he just laughed and said " I guess you are smelling Sandalwood " .

The other day in the feed store the checkout girl asked me, " what do you guys

always smell like? " I said, " anything from eucalyptus to patchouli, I don't

know. It is in our blood I think " She didn't' think that was very funny. She

looks at me like I am a total freak now. Ooops.

 

Have a wonderful day!

Monica

 

 

 

~ PT ~ <patchouli_troll wrote: LOL! Well, i think both times

you used the word

appropriately and we are all grown-ups here.

i enjoyed your post and agreed with every word.

Monica IS spending wisely and doing great, IMO.

 

~ pt ~

 

To know that you do not know is the best.

To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Only when one recognizes this disease as a disease

Can one be free from the disease.

~ Lao-Tzu (c. 600 BC)

~~~*~~~*~~~>

, " linda " <lindai81 wrote:

I think that we mothers are the hope of the world as we force companies to

get

their heads out of their butts and give us what we want. (Oops, did I just say

" butts?) (Twice even) (mea culpa PT)

> linda

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

FWIW, i feed 6 of us, 2 big dogs and 2 cats for around $150/wk, which

includes diapers (though we do some cloth) and toiletries. We used to

do $130/wk but now that the little ones are eating like big kids we've

allowed ourselves to bump it up.

 

My kids have lots of friends and apparently we are the house to be at,

much to my dismay. I dont know why, maybe it's the novelty of my kids

being the only ones in the neighborhood who don't go to school, so they

dont have to sit next to them for 8 hours a day, I don't know.

 

I dont often provide snacks or anything aside from water because I dont

want to encourage them, but when I do the kids have been really great

because they stuff is new to them. I dont give them doritos, they get

corn chips which I usually make from leftover corn tortillas. They

don't get potato chips, they get apples. Cheeze curls make way for real

cheese slices (imagine that). I cant tell you the date I last brought

soda or koolaid or anything like that into the house. The kids have

never turned down water and once in a while some fresh juice, if it's

citrus season. When they've stayed for dinner they gladly ate my

vegetarian fare, though I do try to keep the weird things to a minimum

when friends are over.

 

Now, it could be that the kids go home and tell their parents how

terrible it is, but it must not affect them because THEY KEEP COMING

BACK...one parent asked me for a weekly menu because she couldn't get

her daughter to eat at home but she was always over here eating.

 

honestly, i imagine my more health-conscious kids post more of a problem

when they go somewhere.

 

Meg