May 14th, 2010
Posted by Ann on May 14th, 2010
As I’ve spent the week preparing for my talk at this weekend’s You Are What You Eat event, I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to get kids to the table and enjoy healthy and delicious meals with the family. As I thought back on strategies that I’ve used with my kids, I remembered this GEM of an idea, given to me by Mary Hartzell, who is an early childhood educator and ran the nursery school both by children attended. Mary suggested to always have one consistent dish on the dinner table that the kids could eat, no matter what. If they are picky or fussy and don’t want to eat what I have prepared, there is always one dish that they can eat.
When I cook, I cook what my husband and I want to eat (and what we WANT our kids to eat) but, lets be honest, what parents like eating vs what the kids want to eat is often not the same thing! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told Halle and Walker, that our home kitchen is not a restaurant! So in addition to what recipes I am preparing for that night’s dinner, I always prepare a whole grain dish, usually quinoa or brown rice. That way, the kids know there’s one nutritious item being served that they’ll WANT to enjoy.
I hope that there may be some of you out there who are able to make it to Brea tomorrow. There promises to be a full day of talks and discussions on this very topic, which I know is one that most mothers grapple with regularly! Even if you can’t make it to Brea, please feel free to share any thoughts or questions you have in the comments section, I’d love to start a dialogue where fans of RFD and REAL FOOD can talk about how to make the best choices for you and your families.
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March 9th, 2010
Posted by Ann on March 9th, 2010
Almost a month has past and I thought I was on a roll with my blog postings. I am laughing, what was I thinking? Ideas run through my head daily, but my fingers never touch the keys. The perils of a modern woman are running my cup over. In plain English, I am on overload, but I’m use to it, so I don’t even notice.
OMG, am I just whining when I think of all my excuses?
Let’s see, I own a small business that employs 150 people. I actively run it every day. I’ve got my business in a good place where I work on it, not in it. I’m the producer, but this role does call on me to be present and participating. I liken it to show business and the show must go on. I am raising two kids and maintaining a relationship with my husband. Daily, I try to carve out quiet time to have the sacred life, I so longing want and I try to show up at a few exercise classes because if I don’t release all the tension from these other things, I’ll go mad.
And now, I have taken on a big creative process, the one the fortune teller told me in the fall that I needed to balance my life, to fulfill my creative urges. So, here I am writing a cookbook and blogging about it. Am I crazy? How do writer’s work? How do mother’s juggle? How does a working woman stay emotionally attractive to her man? How do I connect to my blog readers, my husband, my kids, my employees, myself?
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