Healthy is Expensive

All the kids took a late nap today so we went grocery shopping late tonight.  I got my list all made up for a weeks worth of dinners, some lunches and breakfasts.  I realize now that I did forget a couple of things.  Don't you hate it when you do that?  It took at least an hour to get everything off my list and I still didn't manage to find it all.  Have you ever heard of coconut flour?  I couldn't find it anywhere.  I think I'll have to make a trip to an actual health food store.  Vince of course had to get some of his own food because he won't eat what I make.  After it was all said and done our bill was just over $240, and that's just for a week!  Thank goodness for our EBT, otherwise we couldn't afford to eat like this.  It's easy to see why a majority of the people who live in poverty are overweight.  The food that isn't good for you is cheap and the healthy food is expensive.  If you're trying to feed a family of 5 and you don't have much money of course you are going to go for the cheaper stuff.  Something has got to change.

While we were our shopping I put a Stouffer's Mac N' Cheese with broccoli in the oven and the girls and I ate that when we got home.  Logan wanted nothing to do with it so Vince gave him some of his pulled pork sandwich.  However he didn't want to eat that either since it was messing and got on his hands.  He reminds me so much of my little brother when it comes to food, picky!  Maybe it will change.....  I decided to give the girls some spoons and work on them some more with utensils.  It is very difficult trying to teach two toddlers to eat with a spoon at the same time.  I usually feed them finger food for this reason.  I guess they'll have to learn how to eat with a spoon sometime.  Of course as soon as I let them eat on their own then they hold the spoon in one hand and grab the food with the other.

                                                                              Anna

  

Aimee