[blparent] Healthy foods- candy and sweets

Wed May 2 19:45:54 UTC 2012

Oh, I agree, we don't do candy or cookies or the like with a meal, because 
then the rest is off the menu.  Sarah would eat candy all day long if she 
could.  I was very conscious of what I gave Sarah when she was an infant, 
but once the kids get out into the world where they discover cookies and ice 
cream, we're all fighting a losing battle.

One thing to be careful of with candy is jellybeans.  Sarah is four, and I 
thought she would be old enough for them.  But she nearly choked on one this 
Easter, to the point she couldn't talk, and she was making funny sounds like 
she couldn't breathe.  Fortunately her body took care of the jellybean and 
it went down, but I was about ten seconds away from trying the Heimlich, 
which I learned how to do on a doll but never tried on a living human being. 
So jellybeans are out--luckily Easter is a year away now.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 1:07 PM
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] Healthy foods- candy and sweets

> Jo Elizabeth,
>
> We have to watch the sweets with Penny too. If you give her candy or
> desserts with a meal, it's over. She won't touch anything else. She has
> one of the worse sweet toothes I've ever seen, grin.
>
> Crispy Cream is definitely not a temptation for me, but I get a craving
> for a juicey cheeseburger every now and then. Whenever we do fastfood, I
> usually get a kids meal, but still... Can't indulge too much on any of
> this stuff, darn, smile.
>
> We joke around here because ever since I became pregnant, Ross is the
> one with the cravings, LOL! Hey, the bigger he is, the smaller I look,
> giggle. He's one of those guys who doesn't put weight on quickly, and
> when he does, he hides it well. I still look like I just have a
> basketball or something under my shirt even thought I'm almost six
> months along now, though the "girls" give it away too, ha-ha!
>
> Fortunately I don't have problems with dairy, at least not yet, so I can
> enjoy cheesecake from time to time. My grandma and mom are alergic to
> dairy though my mom still insists upon eating things like ice cream, but
> then she regrets it. I think Ross may have a mild aversion to dairy, but
> he has never been diagnosed.
>
> I don't often buy candy for Penny. I tend to bake a lot especially since
> I'm home so much now, but even with baked goods, I have to give them to
> her sparingly, though she's a little rail. She has the spindliest arms,
> smile. She's a very, very picky eater to the point where she'll eat
> something at one meal and at another she won't even touch it. But she
> never, never says no to candy and sweets. I think a lot of it is because
> my sister gave her things like ice cream and freezer pops when she was
> still very little. It's like a crack baby- she had the taste and now
> wants more, grin.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Read my blog at:
> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>
> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 11:57:59 -0600
> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
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> I wish I didn't have a sweet tooth.  I feel that having sweets withheld
> too
> much as a child, or having sweets used as a reward, or both, contributed
> to
> my love of sugary foods.  I can't say I've been completely successful,
> but
> I've tried to give Sarah sweets in moderation, after she's eaten healthy
>
> foods, and not to use them as a reward for good behavior or, worse than
> that, a bribe to elicit good behavior.
>
> Cheesecake is to die for, but I can't eat much of it because my body
> doesn't
> tolerate dairy well.
>
> Crispy Cream is also on my yum list, but there's only one around where I
>
> live, and it's not easy to get to.  Good thing, otherwise I'd never take
> off
> the weight I want to lose!
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
>
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