Even cake mixes can be made more nutritiousWith Valentine's Day fast approaching and our youngest daughter's first birthday coming even sooner, we're in the mood for sweet treats. But here's what we'd like to avoid: a giant family-wide sugar crash. (The kind that involves crying, screaming, flailing and foot-stomping...and we're not just talking about the pregnant lady here.) Actually Estelle, our birthday girl-to-be, hasn't really had refined sugar yet and as I said about our toddler at this age, she's got the rest of her life to become a junk food addict. For now, let's try to show her another way--but let's make it fun.
It's not about being fanatical though, our family is focused on healthy eating as a lifestyle. We're trying to develop habits that keep us all happy (some treats, good), healthy (too many treats, bad) and as far away from diabetes and obesity as possible and as it turns out, it's not as hard as I thought. Cooking from scratch is certainly an advantage because you can moderate the amount of everything going
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