I tried to do the healthy thing by cutting all pork and most beef out of my households diet but as it is with all children, my kids proved to me that best laid plans usually go to crap when kids are involved...
And I admit it wasn't just they and their cohorts that tanked the idea. I had a hand in it too. Like the pork. Dammit I want bacon. Woman was not meant to go cold turkey from bacon. I mean really?? I thought I could do that??? What in the world was running across my mind??
The beef was a whole nother story. I didn't really crave that although I'm more than sure my kids did. They asked for a hamburger more than a few times.
And why they asked, I'll never know. I called the school and asked them to disable the code that they use to get food. I mean I was all in favor of fixing home lunch and sending it with them but I was told right off that that wasn't an option. No way, no how, no doing. I also learned that my kids had absolutely no problem getting all the sweets, juices, beef, and pork products they were being denied at home. In one day alone, my son managed to get a sausage biscuit with bacon (Gotta love Southern schools) cupcakes, juice, cinnamon rolls, cookies, and a double hamburger for breakfast and lunch.
Really CMS?? But yet you turn around and tell us parents that 50% of todays kids are overweight. Seems to me that parents are doing everything we can to keep you from declaring our kids obese and you are doing every single thing you can do to spit in our faces and keep the weight gain on the up trend.
My son is 65 lbs over weight currently. Well maybe not that number exactly because he has been running at football like a little gopher. I like his coach. Coach Nard understands that I don't have a male role model in my kids life right now and he's happy to step in so far as giving the boy a helping hand. It doesn't hurt that his idea of whipping a boy into line is to have him run until his feet fall off.
So tomorrow I will be able to go grocery shopping again and I think I am going to get the stuff that we like. I won't be getting the pound of shrimp... It didn't go over well the last time I cooked it, lol!
So my mother is on her way to come pick up up for football practice.
