Happy New Year!! New Year & New Goals!

It is cliche to start off the new year with a whole shopping list of goals and resolutions especially when most new year's resolutions fall by the wayside shortly after they become inconvenient and the motivation for the goal is gone. Nonetheless, you have to start a new
goal sometime and now is the time. I have A LOT of goals that I want to work on this year in family goals, parenting goals, marriage goals, financial goals, spiritual goals, professional goals, and personal goals.

My major goal this year is to become healthier. This goal includes eating better, less processed, and healthier foods with meals that focus more on vegetables and protein. My two sons, even at the young ages of 2.5 and 4, would rather eat starchy, over-processed, and highly sugared foods and go away from the table hungry if their plates have healthy, nutritious meals that I am sure they would like if they just got past the "it - looks-like-a-vegetable-it-must-be-bad" attitude. I am committed to my boys far more than I am to my own goals so this is truly a commitment versus an interest. This blog is full of random ramblings for the classroom, the home, the family and so on and our progress with our commitment to eating healthy will be updated here for accountability.

Multi-step process for Jacobs' family healthy eating:

1. Veggies first!! We are trying new vegetables and new recipes to build a bank of likable recipes.

2. No fast foods. We are becoming more strict about meal planning and sticking to our meal plan.

3. No junk food in the house. Pop-tarts are yummy and a time saver, but they are not doing any good for any of us.

4. No refined "white" foods like white bread, white rice, white flour, etc.

5. Less processed foods, more real foods.

Continuation of our healthy eating goals will include:

-Little to no glutenous foods.

-Meals using whole, real foods or foods made with less than five ingredients.

OFFICIAL DAY 1 of real foods & veggies first: Baked Chicken Penne and Brussel Sprouts that were delicious and were totally rejected by the children.