In regards to eating meat

[yossarian]

For vitamins you guys might try feeding your kids green smoothies. It's a way to sneak in bitter green leaves into a delicious drink.

The basic green smoothie recipe, all blended up in a blender:

- Spinach or romaine
- Fruit of your choice - oranges, bananas, mangos, pineapple, strawberry, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, kiwi, whatever
- a bit of water

They smoothies don't LOOK good because they are green in color, but they taste quite sugary sweet and if you have a good blender they are smooth and easy to drink. If you put in enough fruit the spinach can't be tasted. Put the smoothie in a dark glass, put a straw in it, I bet your kids would like it. If it's in a dark cup they won't be able to tell that it is green. Make sure they use a straw to drink it, since it's a smoothie. You really can't taste the greens, and the greens pack a ton of nutrition.

This is pretty much how all raw foodists get their nutrients - greens disguised by sugary fruit. Make sure they brush their teeth afterwards though, the fruit sugars are probably hard on little teeth. (Fructose and sucrose being the worst offenders which is why most raw foodists avoids high fructose/sucrose fruits. The basic fruit sugar is glucose, which is the only sugar our body uses directly anyway, making high-glucose fruits the easiest food to digest in the world.)

The danger in nuts is that they are such high fat for their tiny size, it's so very easy to eat way more nuts than you should be eating. Before I got a food-weigh-scale I had no idea how much fat I was eating from almonds, walnuts and macademias. I was eating way more than I should have been.

By the way, has anyone considered that maybe kids are supposed to be full of energy? I mean the schools put kids on ritalin cause they have too much energy, this always seemed like a crime to me. Wouldn't giving kids foods that reduce their energy be a similar thing?