So yesterday morning while my husband and I were getting ready for work, our 8 year old daughter was in the kitchen making her lunch. Now this act always makes me proud, something she would do last year some mornings.... but since it's been summer she hasn't really been the one packing her lunch for day time care... but yesterday she knocked my socks off and put a big ole smile on my face when she announced to us she had packed her lunch. She had carrots, grapes, an apple muffin, a lunch meat roll up and some mandarin oranges all packed up and ready to go. It was really the first time I felt like she is owning our food choices....
She's been on a modified food plan for about a year now, gluten free, dairy free, etc so she's probably eating pretty close to paleo for a longer time than we have. Except since school ended last year we'd been letting her try gluten and peanut butter again... so she did have some re-adjustment to go through.
Everything I read in preparation for making these changes said to get everything that wasn't paleo approved out of the house, that way your children can make their own selections because every choice they have is an approved one. Yesterday was an awesome example of exactly that. She owned her new lifestyle and probably never even realized it, but it still made momma proud.
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