Unless your entire family are clean eaters, chances are you are still finding it a challenge to go grocery shopping with them. This may be particularly true with children. Children are notorious for manipulating their parents into buying their favorite junk food items. It's not unlikely to check your shopping cart and find items you did not place there. Not only that, it can be hard to say no when kids are begging you for their favorite food.
Children are not the only ones guilty of this. A spouse or significant other who is not eating the same way as you can bombard your shopping cart with less than pleasing food items. If you are trying to keep everyone eating healthy, it can be difficult to shop with family or roommates. So what can you do?
- Shop for groceries alone whenever possible
- Shop at health food markets only
- Be strong and learn to say no to junk food items
- Compromise - allow only one favorite item
- Explain that you have a shopping list and budget for only what's on that list
The easiest solution would be to do a bulk of your shopping by yourself. Do you run into this shopping dilemma? How do you handle it?
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I have five kids ranging from 10 – 19. I’ve never really had an issue with the kids trying to wheedle something out of me at the store. We have gradually cleaned up our diet more and more, and I point out that they struggle less with illness and even weight sturggles than a lot of their friends. The boys eat healthy because it earned them the ability to get an XBox for Christmas this year:) The girls do it because they like experimenting with food and new recipes. We all like cooking together, so it makes it more of a joint process rather than a “I MADE IT YOU WILL EAT IT” kind of thing.
These are things I’ve done since they were very young, so it helped that this was the only way they knew to do things, I guess:)
That is awesome, Byn! I really like the idea of cooking together too and experimenting with a variety of healthy food.