Who Feeds The Children?!

Parents are responsible for their children, despite the Nanny State thinking that they are.
Parents have brains.
Parents need to know the power of good nutrition.
Parents can choose to only allow “good” food habitually in their homes.
Treat foods need to not have a HOME in our homes.
Know the difference between food and food products. Choose the former.
Parents, grow up and be good parents.

Pan Fried Cajun Chickpeas

A fun way to serve up chickpeas as a snack or salad topping!

Ingredients

• 1 (400g) can chickpeas
• 2-3 tsp corn-flour
• 2-3 tsp Cajun (or Berbere or similar) seasoning
• 2-3 T. olive oil
• sea salt, to taste

Instructions

1. Rinse and dry chickpeas on paper towel. Be sure to dry completely.
2. Heat oil in a non stick skillet over medium high heat.
   Combine corn/flour and seasoning in a small bowl or plate.
   Roll chickpeas in seasoned flour until lightly dusted.
   Carefully add chickpeas to skillet, in batches, cooking for a few minutes before gently tossing them around in pan.
3. Cook chickpeas until they look crisp and lightly browned.
   Remove from pan and serve warm.

Warning :: addictive!

Children Eating Vegetables

Note that there is no hyphen in the title : Children eating vegetables. It would be tragic if it was : Children-eating Vegetables.

It was never difficult to get our children to eat vegetables.

We taught them the colours of the rainbow (ROYGBIV) by what’s on the plate (good thing we had a blue tablecloth).
Meals are habitually at the dinner table.

:: Also if they weren’t keen on first taste: “That’s OK, we’ll try again another time.”
No stress attitude; add in the fun of trying new things … no problem.

:: No menu was offered. Eat what’s on the plate, one reheat, and, if not finished within two minutes of the last adult, finished! and what’s left on the plate is the first thing you eat next meal. Not surprisingly, I think that only happened twice.

Happiness Blockers and Boosters

Happiness Blockers

• perfectionism – never good enough
• materialism – never enough
• entitlement – it’s my right

How to Harness More Happiness

1. Declutter you mind. Clean up small messes – develops willpower. The state of your bed is the state of your head.
2. Listen to music – whenever you’re down
3. Stick to a routine. Familiarity gives some security
4. Practice gratitude

Happiness Boosters

1. Fake a smile – put a pencil in your teeth
2. Get out in sunlight
3. Eat Omega 3 – good food
4. Yawn – several times, makes you more alert
5. Hugs – at least 8 lingering hugs per day (will be asking the Counsellor for an increase here!)

http://www.drozfans.com/dr-oz-general-health/dr-oz-practicing-gratitude-raising-happiness-review/

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/how-harness-more-happiness?page=2

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Guest, You’re Welcome Here

Guest, you are welcome here,
Be at your ease.
Get up when you’re ready,
Go to bed when you please.

We’re happy to share with you
Such as we’ve got,
The leaks in the roof
And the soup in the pot.

You don’t have to thank us
Or laugh at our jokes,
Sit deep and come often…
You’re one of the folks!

J.P. McEvoy, 1925

(Buzza Motto)

 

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I’ve had this verse hanging on my fridge for about 30 years. It’s all faded and I wanted the words to recreate the banner.

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It Matters Whom You Marry

Girls’ version

Guys, It Matters Whom You Marry, Too

Guys version

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And here’s the girls’ version :: https://bankwhitt.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/it-matters-whom-you-marry/

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National Association of School Lunches Takes Aim at Those Who Dare to Eat at Home

by Valorie Delp

The National Association of School Lunches today, in a bold public statement, expressed their concern over untrained mothers serving lunch to their children. Says one source, “The problem is wide spread. We have mothers, who are untrained in how to serve lunches, feeding their children, in their homes. Something simply has to be done.”

The National Association of School Lunches warns parents of the possible ramifications of feeding their children at home: Children will be deprived of the social experience of eating in the cafeteria. Some important social rites of passage, such as food fights, will be completely skipped.

Students who eat at home may not get to learn how others students in other parts of the world eat. Exposure to chopsticks or eating on the floor will be completely diminished.

Students who eat at home may not get the full range of foods that are available only through the school cafeteria.

There is no quantifiable way to measure the nutritional standard of the food being served. Surely parents need to be told what foods their children must eat. Lunch eating is serious–moms could never figure this out on their own.

But the biggest argument put forth by the National Association of School Lunches is that mothers are untrained in serving lunches. They strongly feel that in order to serve school lunches, one must have taken important courses and be certified in things like serving techniques, placing the food properly on the tray, anti food-fight tactical manoeuvres and how to dollop mush. Although mothers serve their children lunches every day from birth until that child enters school, once the child is school-aged, the parent must be trained or their lack of training could be a detriment. Previous experience counts for nothing in the hard core, fast paced world of school lunch serving.

Another key concern are health and safety standards that are required by law in school cafeterias. Although I cannot explain how the phenomenon might occur, apparently home is clean enough for breakfast and dinner but during the lunch hour, homes everywhere must be attacked by germs and bacteria thus necessitating state produced standards for cleanliness for the lunch hour.

Finally, school lunch personnel everywhere are concerned about accountability. Should children have to prove that they’re getting adequate nutrition or perhaps should mothers have to submit meal plans for the year to be approved by the state department of school lunches to check and make sure that the food that’s going to be served meets nutritional standards.

Come back later as I have a feeling that there might be more from the National Association of School Lunches.

 

Treats allowed – sort of

One of the best ways that I lost weight in the past was to use steps and stairs instead of escalators or lifts.

I ate reasonably healthily. And went for a variety of colours on my plate.

I had an occasional treat of something *ginger*, eg gingerbread, gingernuts,

but I had:

• no cake – or biscuits/cookies and other flour-rich foods.

• no chocolate – or sweets/candy and other sugar-rich treats.

• no chips (hot or cold) – or fatty foods. Limit butter and oil intake.

Everything I ate slowly …

I told myself how yummy it was –

how much I was enjoying it – and

not feeling guilty about eating it at all, even if it was one of my treats. Today we would call this ‘mindfulness’.

If you’re super organised and motivated you could also write down (use a tick system is easiest) everything everything everything you eat. This helps to keep you accountable.

In the years since, I find I control weight better when I plate a few things for lunch or snack, and then sit down at the dining room table.

Above all, enjoy life and living – and eat real food (not food products).

Because stress is no good for anything, except a slow death!

So try this: no cake, no chocolate, no chips.

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10 Ways to Radically Reduce Migraines

On Migraine pages (website and social media) a huge amount of time and effort is spent on triggers and medications, but my migraines radically reduced when I changed my diet.

I can’t recommend any migraine-knowledgeable doctors/specialists in the Waikato, tho once I spent an hour and a half with a so-called migraine Dr, who spent that time just talking about the effects of different meds, including prophylactics. I don’t recommend! I have tried all the new drugs as they come out, but I still like my old-fashioned Migril / Cafergot.

Anecdotally my former doctor told me a specialist told another patient to cut out the toxins of yoghurt and apricot.

This lead me to read up on toxins > acid (20%) vs alkali (80%) foods > vegetable-rich diet (less dairy, wheat, red meat).

Along with regular sleep (minimum of 6.5-7.5 hours each night), correct deep breathing, and 6-8 drinks of filtered water (not so-called diet soda), and at least one cup daily of weak no-milk tea (green, jasmine, rooibos).

Also supplements or foods rich in magnesium, zinc, B6/B12 – at least for a few days every month – especially in the week before any known stressor.

No sachet foods or additives, no MSG, sulphites, nitrates – this would include no processed meats. I tell my kids if you can’t say and spell a word in the ingredients list, it’s best not to eat it.
Cut out MSG (E621) and other flavour enhancers, nitrates, sulphites, aspartame. For some reason, some food manufacturers find it necessary to hide and rename these products. MSG (monosodium glutamate) alone seems to hide behind dozens of identities 

Choosing to Live Life …

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See more : http://www.pinterest.com/bankwhitt/4-migrainehealth/

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Magnesium Weblinks

 

Gluten Sensitivity and Magnesium Deficiency – read even if not gluten-free

Magnesium Sleep – jumpy legs? poor night’s sleep?

Magnesium : the relaxation mineral – are you deficient?

 

Magnesium Deficiency 

Magnesium (3pp)

 

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