[doolarsva]

Here's my daughter this morning at breakfast:



She has apple pieces, honeydew melon pieces, cantaloupe pieces, baked chicken pieces, and one piece of cherry that she wouldn't touch. She had milk with this.

This is the kind of thing I try to feed her but she won't always eat everything I give her so she gets a variety and picks out what she wants... Like yesterday I gave her corn, carrots, green beans, potatoes and some chicken and noodles for lunch and she only ate the chicken and noodles. Go figure. But I try to keep her plate full of variety and as natural of products as possible. I opt for cutting her fresh apple pieces over giving her dried apples or canned fruit.

I'm trying to do what my friend (a great naturalist on her way to becoming a naturalist doctor with a doctorate in science already) Paula tells me... She says the closer we can come to eating the leaves off the trees, and the meat off the animals directly, the healthier it is.

But I want to make sure I don't set my child in the wrong direction on how much fruit and grain she eats... A few years down the road, I want to see her eating a variety of foods, with low to no added sugars and good protein. I don't want to see her chunky and addicted to sweets and breads... So I guess what I need to do is not give her sweets and breads right now? Is that the answer? It seems too simple.

I'm skeptical and suspicious where my daughter is concerned... very careful of her... so maybe I'm over-complicating but I wanna make sure I give her the best start to learning how to keep herself healthy that I can.

Thanks for your advices!

Shei