More Protein for Picky Eaters
As the mother of picky children, I’m starting to get more creative about how I force, er serve, proper nutrients at mealtime. Unfortunately neither of my children eat meat right now, but they will do some serious damage to cheese and milk. But outside of iron concerns, I wonder about getting them other forms of protein to help grow those lovely strong muscles. I’ve actually thought of protein shakes to work in some more nutrients on the sly.
After all, both of my boys are obsessed with Jamba Juice. How tricky would it be to make healthy protein shakes at home just by adding a bit of protein powder (never too much mind you) to a frozen concoction of bananas, strawberries and blueberries? To my way of thinking it would be far easier to do that than force them to eat steak when they are dead set against it.
I’m not sure if the shakes would be a permanent addition around our house, perhaps an afternoon snack or part of dinner at night, but they will at least make me feel better about getting the most important stuff into the kids. I am reasonably sure at some point my little picky eaters will branch back out from pasta and Jamba juice to include real meats again, but in the meantime, I’m not going to knock anything that might make mealtimes a bit easier on all of us.
