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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 75541" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>That's a good point. A diet works best when the whole family is on it. If you are restricting child A's sugar and fat intake, and you still eat chocolate biscuits in front of her, it's not fair. If one child has to do without, all should. The really problem foods should be banned from the house.</p><p></p><p>easy child seems to have outgrown her tartrazine sensitivity. difficult child 3 reacts to one red colour, I react to another purple colour. It's fairly easy to buy sweets which don't have either colour in them, but as a matter of principle (sending a message to manufacturers) we tend to buy lollies with NO artificial colour at all. They're just not in the house. We can get tiny fruit-favoured jelly beans with no artificial flavours or colours. Jelly snakes, jelly lollies of all shapes and flavours, chocolate (loaded with amines, by the way), marshmallows, honeycomb - whatever we want, with no artificial flavours & colours. They actually taste even better so the kids now choose them. We don't keep the other stuff around. So no chance of sneaking anything.</p><p></p><p>And sometimes not only is it tastier to make your own, it's also cheaper. difficult child 1 asked me to buy a gourmet strawberry sauce which we could get cheap from a factory outlet. It's very nice, but we've decided that we like my home-made one much better. And I priced it out - even using fresh strawberries, it's still cheaper. About half the price. And I can bottle it hot from the microwave into pop-top jars, and know that if the lid pops down, my sauce is still fresh in the cupboard six months later (assuming it survives being eaten that long). And when I'm making it, the whole house smells of strawberries.</p><p></p><p>It works the same for any fruit. And you could also use it to make fruit lollipops if you wanted. (strawberries - loaded with salicylate).</p><p></p><p>Good luck with whatever you try to do. But it's a good idea for you ALL to try it - it cuts back on the sneaking, and it does away with, "mum, you don't know how I feel being on this stupid diet!"</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 75541, member: 1991"] That's a good point. A diet works best when the whole family is on it. If you are restricting child A's sugar and fat intake, and you still eat chocolate biscuits in front of her, it's not fair. If one child has to do without, all should. The really problem foods should be banned from the house. easy child seems to have outgrown her tartrazine sensitivity. difficult child 3 reacts to one red colour, I react to another purple colour. It's fairly easy to buy sweets which don't have either colour in them, but as a matter of principle (sending a message to manufacturers) we tend to buy lollies with NO artificial colour at all. They're just not in the house. We can get tiny fruit-favoured jelly beans with no artificial flavours or colours. Jelly snakes, jelly lollies of all shapes and flavours, chocolate (loaded with amines, by the way), marshmallows, honeycomb - whatever we want, with no artificial flavours & colours. They actually taste even better so the kids now choose them. We don't keep the other stuff around. So no chance of sneaking anything. And sometimes not only is it tastier to make your own, it's also cheaper. difficult child 1 asked me to buy a gourmet strawberry sauce which we could get cheap from a factory outlet. It's very nice, but we've decided that we like my home-made one much better. And I priced it out - even using fresh strawberries, it's still cheaper. About half the price. And I can bottle it hot from the microwave into pop-top jars, and know that if the lid pops down, my sauce is still fresh in the cupboard six months later (assuming it survives being eaten that long). And when I'm making it, the whole house smells of strawberries. It works the same for any fruit. And you could also use it to make fruit lollipops if you wanted. (strawberries - loaded with salicylate). Good luck with whatever you try to do. But it's a good idea for you ALL to try it - it cuts back on the sneaking, and it does away with, "mum, you don't know how I feel being on this stupid diet!" Marg [/QUOTE]
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