rohansmama responded July 29, 2008 at 6:18AM

  

But why? I can understand cutting sugar but, why wheat?

  Sticky_Mommy responded July 29, 2008 at 8:45AM

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LOL - "if they are leaving things out of products .... why are they charging so much more for them? "

Right?! You have some restraint. Last night I was dipping peanut butter pretzels in chocolate frosting from a can. And for lunch put salt on my high salt frozen low fat meal. I have issues!

  LatteMommy responded July 29, 2008 at 10:23AM

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multi-grain is more nutrional than wheat. wheat can trigger allergies.

  rockergirrl responded July 29, 2008 at 11:06AM

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Most people have some type of sensitivity to wheat. Wheat sensitivities can cause a host of symptoms one might not even contribute to eating wheat. Cutting it out of your diet is one of the hardest things to do. As you mentioned the replacement products cost more money and do not taste as good. My advice is you are trying to eliminate too many things at one time. Sugar is hard enough for someone who addicted but adding the wheat thing just makes it harder on yourself. Does your family suffer from wheat allergies? I would say unless they do instead focus on the sugar and perhaps just try cutting out wheat based products but not eliminating them. Choose bread for one meal a day instead of three. Cut out cracker and other wheat based snacks. You will find that even cutting back will make a difference. We are a wheat and sugar addicted country.

  LatteMommy responded July 29, 2008 at 11:42AM

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Right on rockergirl...that is what we are trying to do. I've read that cutting back on wheat and sugar and gluten and caffenine will help with sinus'. It does if you can stick with it. LOL.
Now whether this has anything to do with it or not or it's just our imagination...whatever it is....DD attitude seems to be more level when we cut out the gluten.
DH went sugar free for 2 weeks! I am so proud of him. I haven't even made it a day.
We have just cut back on wheat and gluten. That's not too tough. Especially during the summer with all the yummie veggies available. Moderation!
We have been low or no sodium for several years now.
Since sugar is so hard to do, we are choosing foods that have natural sugar and trying not to add sugar to anything.
BREAKDOWNS happen that's why we keep Moderation as our key.
We broke down and had cheeseburgers the other day and DD to our amazement chose to have a salad.

  rockergirrl responded July 29, 2008 at 11:49AM

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That's great! What might also be happening by nature when you eliminate sugary foods you are also eliminating other culprits of behavior issues such as artificial colors, flavors and high fructose corn syrup. Getting rid of just those three things will show a world of difference in most children's behavior issues. Congrats on making the changes!

  wildmom responded July 29, 2008 at 2:23PM

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wow - I love sugar too much to commit to canning it altogether....but 'd love to get rid of artificial everything

  rockergirrl responded July 29, 2008 at 4:46PM

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like lattemommy said it is all about moderation. I personally feel you shouldn't ban anything or it will become too much of a temptation. We eat sugar we just don't eat it a lot. We don't buy sugary sweets or snacks, I buy low sugar cereal and dessert is certainly not a nightly event. Every couple of weeks or so now that the kids are older we have some ice cream as dessert on a Friday night. At birthday parties and special occasions we let the kids have what they want. I don't let them go overboard but I let them partake. At home though the rules are different. If you don't buy crap at home then at least you know they are eating healthy there.

  dustbunny responded July 30, 2008 at 2:57PM

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wow! nice self control and motivated changes! I'm pretty much too lazy to try anything like that :) I'll cut sugar here and there but not really- I just had like 20 mai tais last week...all sugar!