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nutrition
Family Kitchen Now Hiring! The Line You might not be able to ask your little ones to sauté vegetables but they can measure water for the rice. Older children and spouses will be more inclined help cook if they know they don’t have to cook the entire meal; so put someone in charge of the entrée so you can focus on the side dishes. Expo The expediter in a restaurant helps plate side dishes and entrees on a busy night. This role is KEY to your household because it involves portion control. Maureen Williams, ND reports that “Children’s bite size and food intake increases when they are served larger portions, according to a new study in the Amercian Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2003; 77:1164-70) These findings suggest that a relatively simple way to combat obesity would be to reduce portion sizes at meals”. Children can often be overwhelmed with portions presented on an adult size dinner plate. Serve your children their meals on a salad plate so you can offer smaller portions and still make the plate look appealing. Beverage Manager Pouring everyone a glass of water is the ideal task for the non-cook! Delegate! Dining Room Supervisor This is the person in charge of setting the table.Encourage some creativity, or better yet, take it outside. Break up the summer monotony for kids by packing a backyard picnic. It’s amazing how a few sandwiches, a bag of chips and some cold drinks become much cooler when they’re accompanied by a blanket and basket. Better yet, make one day of the week “picnic day” and have kids plan the menu and invite a friend or two. Picnics get the kids away from the television and computer and provide Mom or Dad some peace come July when parents start to look forward to school again! Be patient with your new kitchen crew. Mistakes (and messes) will be made but your family’s health is worth the effort. Mealtime doesn’t need to feel like a continuation of your work day. If you can enlist your family to work in the kitchen, you’ll spend less time trying to please everyone’s palate and more time enjoying one another’s company. ----------------------------------------------------- Tracy Adler is a mom of two and owner of Western North Carolina's Cafe on the Square restaurant. She was 'discovered' by Burt’s Bees® owners during a visit to her restaurant and became a model for their natural skin care line. Tracy created Yum Yum Dishes™ (www.yumyumdish.com), a line of portion-control SnackWare™ when she recognized just how much she and her family were snacking during her second child's maternity leave. Tracy believes in enjoying decadent sweets -- in moderation -- so her restaurant patrons get to take the dishes home after they eat their treats! That's why Tracy is on Hollander's Comfort Council; she believes one of life's pleasures is food and eating meals together as a family. We just need to explore ways to enjoy food in moderation. A natural Martha-Stewart type, she is constantly researching wonderful ways to balance food, family and fun! E-mail her at tracy@yumyumdish.comHealthnotes Newswire, August 7, 2003
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