Comments on: Living in a goody-free world http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/juliesisland/2009/10/08/living-in-a-goody-free-world/ Space & Time for Your Wellbeing Sun, 20 May 2012 15:59:21 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: janerowena http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/juliesisland/2009/10/08/living-in-a-goody-free-world/comment-page-1/#comment-326 janerowena Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:43:37 +0000 http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/juliesisland/?p=331#comment-326 My son is almost 16, and rarely wants sweets - I gave him fruit and vegetables right from the start, or dried fruit. Now, he can just about cope with the sweetness of a hot chocolate, but cannot bear it with marshmallows on the top. He is often given sweets as a present, always seems pleased at the time, but never finishes them - much to his father's delight; he has a very sweet tooth! My son is almost 16, and rarely wants sweets – I gave him fruit and vegetables right from the start, or dried fruit. Now, he can just about cope with the sweetness of a hot chocolate, but cannot bear it with marshmallows on the top. He is often given sweets as a present, always seems pleased at the time, but never finishes them – much to his father’s delight; he has a very sweet tooth!

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]]> By: julielindahl http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/juliesisland/2009/10/08/living-in-a-goody-free-world/comment-page-1/#comment-15 julielindahl Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:10:40 +0000 http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/juliesisland/?p=331#comment-15 Hi worcesterman, It is true that many of the nutritional benefits of fruits and vegetables lie in or right under the skin. The big question is usually where your fruits and vegetables come from and whether the skin is covered with chemicals or not. These days you can usually purchase organic carrots and if they really are fresh and good, the skin tends to be rather thin and fine too consume once you have washed them. You can of course also wash your fruits and vegetables by thoroughly scrubbing them in lemon juice and water in order to remove residual chemicals. Unfortunately, most of us do not take the time to do that. There are obvious examples where the skin is not too tasty (e.g. beets or lemons). Agree with you about kids returning to the basics that they learned earlier in life. We do not live on our summer island full time any longer and the kids don't seem to be much attracted to those disastrous bags of colored sugar. Hi worcesterman,

It is true that many of the nutritional benefits of fruits and vegetables lie in or right under the skin. The big question is usually where your fruits and vegetables come from and whether the skin is covered with chemicals or not. These days you can usually purchase organic carrots and if they really are fresh and good, the skin tends to be rather thin and fine too consume once you have washed them. You can of course also wash your fruits and vegetables by thoroughly scrubbing them in lemon juice and water in order to remove residual chemicals. Unfortunately, most of us do not take the time to do that. There are obvious examples where the skin is not too tasty (e.g. beets or lemons).

Agree with you about kids returning to the basics that they learned earlier in life. We do not live on our summer island full time any longer and the kids don’t seem to be much attracted to those disastrous bags of colored sugar.

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]]> By: worcesterman http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/juliesisland/2009/10/08/living-in-a-goody-free-world/comment-page-1/#comment-14 worcesterman Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:32:28 +0000 http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/juliesisland/?p=331#comment-14 Keep fighting the good fight Julie. The lessons and behaviour that kids learn when young they will usually return to, even if they experiment for a bit when older. Mind you, I was always told that most of the goodness in vegetables was in the skin or just under, so we should wash and not not peel carrots ? Keep fighting the good fight Julie. The lessons and behaviour that kids learn when young they will usually return to, even if they experiment for a bit when older.
Mind you, I was always told that most of the goodness in vegetables was in the skin or just under, so we should wash and not not peel carrots ?

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]]> By: cd http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/juliesisland/2009/10/08/living-in-a-goody-free-world/comment-page-1/#comment-13 cd Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:06:20 +0000 http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/juliesisland/?p=331#comment-13 Wait until your children escape from the island. They will get all they want then. Wait until your children escape from the island. They will get all they want then.

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