Family foods

Jdkbs

How many of you keep junk food in the house for the family? I'm having mom guilt about depriving my kids and husband.

perkymommy

I want my children to eat healthier as well. I keep a moderate amount of things that I wouldn't eat as far as snacks go but for the most part they eat what I do in that category.

Lounmoun

We have all the same foods that we always had in the house. I choose what I eat and the portion sizes right for me.

Jruzer

"Junk food" is a loaded term. I don't classify food that way.

janejellyroll

My husband doesn't have any weight to lose and it's easy for him to maintain his weight. I changed what I ate (mostly just eating less of certain things), there was no reason for his diet to change because mine did.

enterdanger

I still have more junk in the house than I want my boys to have. I've got a 3 year old and 5 year old and they eat too many foods that are not nutrient dense. I'm trying to be careful with my words here since we like to play semantics on this forum.

I'm taking them with me now when I hit the farmers market and letting them pick out fresh fruit and veggies to try and interest them, but they invariably choose something sweet or chippy for a snack... Those are in the house for 2 reasons.

1. Hubs
2. Lunches for school. ( I don't mind if they eat 1 140 calorie snack bags of chips at lunch. They run around like crazy at school. The problem is not letting anyone have it outside of that time frame)

It's hard to say "Family, we are completely changing the way we eat/snack." Every time I try that someone brings home donuts or cupcakes or something.

Linzon

We still have "sometimes foods" and processed snacks in the house as well as whole foods and homemade treats. If I want to eat some "kid food" (like Goldfish crackers, mmm) I just weigh and log, and mom-guilt keeps me from eating things like the special chocolate my mom sent the kids for Easter.

Ditto my husband's snacks, weigh and log, but he seldom has something I want to use calories on.

geneticsteacher

I have not banned any foods from the house. Husband is UNDERweight and we have a teenage son that eats amazing quantities of food, so I still buy chips, popcorn, sweets, and other "junk" for them. I just don't eat it.

kgirlhart

janejellyroll wrote: »

My husband doesn't have any weight to lose and it's easy for him to maintain his weight. I changed what I ate (mostly just eating less of certain things), there was no reason for his diet to change because mine did.

Same here. My husband was not overweight. There was no reason for him to change his eating habits just because I needed to change mine. Luckily for me he isn't big on sweets which is kind of my weakness but he does like the salty snacks like chips so we always have them in the house. I haven't banned any foods. I still eat sweets I just make sure I eat a reasonable portion and it fits my calorie goal.

Toronto6fan

I buy the stuff I don't tend to indulge in. They don't feel deprived, I don't feel tempted.

janejellyroll

kgirlhart wrote: »

janejellyroll wrote: »

My husband doesn't have any weight to lose and it's easy for him to maintain his weight. I changed what I ate (mostly just eating less of certain things), there was no reason for his diet to change because mine did.

Same here. My husband was not overweight. There was no reason for him to change his eating habits just because I needed to change mine. Luckily for me he isn't big on sweets which is kind of my weakness but he does like the salty snacks like chips so we always have them in the house. I haven't banned any foods. I still eat sweets I just make sure I eat a reasonable portion and it fits my calorie goal.

I'm not super-tempted by sweets (which he usually has around), but he does often have potato chips (which are my weakness). I do the same thing -- if I really want some, I'll weigh out a portion and have some.

Francl27

Plenty of junk in this house. I believe in everything in moderation... for my kids too.

JenHuedy

I still make my kids treats and keep a few store bought ones around. My mom went through a health food kick when I was a kid and banned all treats from the house. The closest thing to a sweet that we were allowed was "fruit leather" from the health food store. This stuff was NOTHING like a fruit rollup! I can still remember her reaching into the back seat as we pulled out of grandma's driveway to wrestle the little baggie of candy grandma had given me out of my hands. I hoarded sweets for years after that.

jemhh

We have cookies, ice cream, chips, pop, etc. in our house. Everything in moderation.

ReaderGirl3

I don't label any foods 'junk', 'good' or 'bad' etc. Food is just food We just got back from grocery shopping and we bought things like chocolate chip pancakes, cheddar popcorn and smores flavored poptarts. We also bought things like raspberries, fish and bags of frozen veggies. Everyone eats what they prefer (I have one kid that won't touch the poptarts and another that hates the raspberries). Nothing is off limits to any of us-I just need to be mindful of portion sizes and make sure to fit what I want, within my calorie allotment (and I hate both the poptarts and the raspberries lol). My kids are all thin and don't have any problems naturally regulating how much they eat.

jemhh

sunparakeet wrote: »

Why do you feel okay feeding your kids junk food but you won't feed it to yourself?

You're likely talking to the OP but I'll answer this.

I don't refrain from "junk food" most days because it is "junk food." Rather, I refrain from it because I don't feel like it is worth spending my calories on every day. When I do want to spend part of my calorie budget on it, I do that. Don't assume that people don't eat things because they see them as bad or unhealthy. Allocating your calorie budget is more nuanced than that for many people.

RobD520

There are foods in my house that I think I am best off not eating. If they are in the house, I do not eat them. My wife is on board; and so we are working together. If she was not, I wouldn't expect her to do anything different because of what I feel is best for me. I provide the kids treats in moderation.

CrabNebula

I have junk in the house at all times, but I tend to buy the best of the worst junk. Baked Lays, reduced fat ice cream or froyo, dark chocolate bars, sugar free pudding, light chocolate syrup, trail mix, diet soda, reduced fat salami, spirits like gin/rum/vodka, 100 cal bags of popcorn, Fiber One bars, etc. High ABV beer, wine, and Nutella or chocolate almond spreads are about the only things off the top of my head I regularly buy as full cal junk food.

Not under any illusion that these things are healthy, but they are a lot less calories and none of us really miss at all the full cal stuff or prefer the lower cal junk to it.

Jdkbs

Moderation, duh!
It's nice to have people to remind you the basics sometimes. Thanks friends.