Senitra
March 15, 2012
Nutrition B01
Preparing An Buying Meals
A typical day preparing a meal in my home takes 30 minutes to an hour sometimes longer; Depends on how my kids want their food an what they want to eat. My children are very finicky eaters, one eats cheese and the other doesn’t. Dinner time is crazy time at my house with five kids, an two or three different ways one meal has to be prepared very flustering. Grocery shopping takes forever three to four hours when the kids come. Wal-Mart an all in one store, an ,Hy- vee an its name speaks for itself, the last store is Aldes. Meals are prepared for myself, kids, an my husband and sometimes my auntie when she comes over. The foods I choose are meats that are cheap, and I pick a variety of meats to make different meals for the whole month. Side dishes are bought at Aldes because the can goods are cheaper. The next store is Wal-Mart we look through the store for junk food. I give the kids a chance to pick items they would like to eat when I don’t feel like cooking. When the kids are done we shop a little longer, for the foods that could go with the meats an just mixture of foods. We like to be creative as a family at dinner time. Breakfast time is myself and my husband eggs, sausage, an pancakes cooked in the kitchen. Lunch is cooked sometime in the kitchen or we eat out or it gets skipped. Dinner time is family time we cook as a family in the kitchen. My kids have their own idea on how their meal should be prepared. For example Cheese Burgers, Fries, and Salad- Two kids eat cheese, no pickles, or ketchup, two of my other kids want no cheese, give them pickles and no ketchup , an my other child wants everything apart from the bun WOW! Our meal setting quite at times when we are tired. When we eat in the kitchen at the table food is thrown an stop, please don’t do is said but ignore. The kids eat in their rooms sometime an my husband and I eat in the living room an watch a movie…We eat as a family four times out of the week sometimes, an talk about our day and have fun at the dinner table. How feel on what we eat it’s not enough vegetables an fruits involved in our diet. I could spend less time in the grocery store, an more time shopping for more healthier food an less fatty foods. Sometimes I really don’t feel like cooking so I throw things together an just don’t care if a vegetable is with it. Caring more on what an how we eat is very important.

I don't think you have much of anything going for you for the supper table. From what I read the kids over-rule you on saying what they want on their cheeseburgers. I would not allow that for one minute. It is a waste of your time catering do their dietary needs as far as burgers are concerned. I would absolutely NOT allow food in their bedrooms; they either eat at the table as a family SEVEN days a week or not at all.

You have no structure at all shopping, preparing or serving. Senitra.

You let the kids shop for junk food! Have you kept tabs on how much this junk food costs a month. You would probably save a bundle if you did not allow this to happen. There is no nutrition in junk food.

CASSEROLE recipes are easy and quick, and nutritious when you add tuna, or beef.

I don't know what you want us to say. Do you have a chest freezer whereby you can buy ground beef and chicken in bulk and freeze it in pre-arranged packets. Keep a list of what you have in the freezer, say five lbs. of ground beef in lb. packets and mark it off as you take it out to use, same with whole chickens, whole turkeys, get the sales when they happen and shop when you are not hungry and with NO kids.

If you are here on the computer, then you can look up recipes for quick meals, prepared nutritiously that incorporate veggies and meat.

I agree with tickle, and just want you to spell check too. You have a lot of 'an' instead of 'and' and are missing some ends of sentences.
If this is a nutrition course, and you are graded on nutrition, oh my. Burgers and canned goods aren't going to pass. Maybe it's tough cooking fresh vegetables with a family of 7 or 8, but try at least 3 times a week. Broccoli when chopped small steams in 4 minutes and is one of the best for you (melt cheese on top, yum). Frozen peas are easy but not very nutritious. Lettuce is mostly water.
One trick to get kids to eat veggies is to put them in spaghetti sauce - anything!
Now that breakfast - eggs or sausage but not both, too much cholesterol.
I make a really nutritious pancake with egg, OJ, and a mixture of white and whole wheat flour, oatmeal, and cornmeal, no butter, a bit of blueberry jam on top and yogurt and only a little maple syrup. All the protein and some of the vitamins.
Kids can stay pretty healthy on a junk food diet, but only for a while. When age catches up they will start showing the ill effects.

I'm sorry. But this isn't a paper on nutrition. It's a paper on grocery shopping and how hectic meal time is at your house.

When you redoubt your paper be sure to use spell check and remember that paragraphs are your friend.