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Posted 7/30/2009 @ 6:48:48 pm by womenandnutrition.com
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Old habits
can be really hard to break, however once you break them you begin to
wonder why you ever held onto them for so long. I recently went to a
church girls camp with 34 girls between the age of 12 and 18. I was in
charge of the camp and therefore had complete control over what was
served for meals. This is not the first time that I have done this and
in the past I have cooked meals that I have considered “must have”
camping food. This year in an effort to both eat healthier myself and
teach the girls that eating healthy could be good, I planned meals very
different from in the past. Instead of scones which in essence are deep
fried bread dough, I made a healthy muffin with yogurt and fruit. I
also always took with me a “snack box”. This was a box that I filled
with large bags of fun size candies that I bought at Costco. This year
instead the box was filled with granola bars, trail mix, nuts and dried
fruit. Amazingly enough the girls really didn’t notice, they ate the
snacks and healthier meals and I think it made it so that they enjoyed
the really sugary snacks like smores all that much better. Even more
when I took the focus off the food I had to have and focused instead on
the more meaningful parts of camp such as the devotionals and service
projects, I found that the whole experience was a much better one.
