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Nicole L.V. Mullis: Losing the junk food battle PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by Joe Cox   
Monday, 27 August 2007

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Nicole L.V. Mullis: Losing the junk food battle

bilde.jpgWe were up north on vacation with my family — Grandma, Grandpa, six sets of aunts and uncles and three cousins.

Junk food? Are you kidding? It was like renting four gingerbread cottages. Getting my children to eat well was less of a challenge than an impossibility.

My youngest, a junk-food junkie, was in heaven and by the second day had a canker sore, sour stomach and grumpy disposition. I don’t think water crossed her Kool-Aid-stained lips, much less a vegetable.

I tried to make her eat a good breakfast. I gave her apple juice, a vitamin and a choice of cereals out of a multi-pack. Of course, she skipped over the Cheerios and went straight for the Lucky Charms. Three seconds later, she was out the door to Grandma’s cabin, leaving behind the vitamin, the juice and a bowl of soggy Lucky Charms minus the marshmallows.

Yes, my daughter ate marshmallows for breakfast — and not just any marshmallows — the ones filled with food dye.

I couldn’t compete with Grandma, whose cupboards were barfing out fruit snacks, M&Ms and small cans of Coke. Grandma also managed to make two batches of chocolate chip cookies with my daughter’s “help.”

Copyright ©2007 Battle Creek Enquirer.

Originally published August 25, 2007

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