am quite late in posting this week… but we had an activity packed weekend, where we took full advantage of the gorgeous sunshine and spent as little time as possible indoors. now the madness of the work week has started… anyhow, excuses will not get me far 
some have asked why we restrict the sugar intake of our toddler. the reasons are many. first of all, there is no nutrition in sugar. none whatsover. i crave sugar, but that is because i am aware of its taste and when i see a richly decorated cake or apple pie… it is the pavlov instict kicking in. but if a child is not introduced to sweets then he/she will not miss having it and will certainly not salivate when spotting a chocolate glazed doughnut! jon has had cakes or biscuits, but only on special occasions like birthdays… etc. the second reason is that jon is already a very active toddler. what i mean by active is that he is always on the move. he collapses when his head hits the pillow at night. now, imagine if i gave him sugar or had him on a high energy diet with canned foods, foods with additives, among others; jon would be bouncing off the walls! at the end of the day, it has been widely agreed that what a child eats in his first 3 years of life will have a lifelong impact in his life (i will do some online research and post some links in my next post). we are not claiming to be self righteous in the way we feed our son, but we certainly put a great deal of effort in trying to find the best way to provide him with a balanced diet.
at home, we are mostly vegetarians (not vegans – which means we incorporate dairy and eggs in our diet) and occasionally we have some salmon (on a rare occasion some cod) and white meat (chicken or turkey).
monday
box 1: steamed cabbage wraps: filling made of chicken seasonned in paprika and onions and red peppers box 2: tomatoes box 3: boiled potatoes with remoulade box 4: plum outcome: empty box
tuesday
box 1: boiled potatoes + olives + olive oil + parsley box 2: arroz doce/risengrød (rice boiled in vanilla milk and powdered with cinnamon) box 3: guacamole (ripe avocados, tomatoes, garlic, crème fraîche) box 4: bread cut with cookie cutter outcome: empty box
wednesday
box 1: lentil stew (with tomato concentrate, a spoon of red pesto, onions and garlic) box 2: tomatoes box 3: cucumber sandwiches with vegan paté box 4: clementine outcome: half empty lentil stew box
thursday
box 1: tomato sauce with zucchinis and carrots on a bed of spinach ravioli box 2: sliced cucumber box 3: local danish cheese with green olives box 4: rye bread cut with a cookie cutter outcome: jon left some of the raviolis at the bottom of the box
friday
box 1: onion quiche (we had not made this quiche in some 4 years and yet it is one of my favourites… – some 6 onions, cream and eggs, nutmeg, cheese) box 2: salad with boiled broccoli, corn, tomatoes and for lack of real portuguese black olives… the green cheap version would have to do box 3: home made croissant outcome: empty box!
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