Samantha Christine (Sam / SAMCFIT)

Do they finish their plates?

Not always, but we try to lead by example.

show them that these are the foods that foods that help fuel us now do we put fruit on their plates too and like add some things maybe put a little sauce to make it more fun for them yes so we try to educate them at home first and the one rule they don't have to finish their plates but the one rule we have is they have to pick a protein that they enjoy eating and they have to finish that

Right.

Like we can't not eat our chicken and then expect some ice cream after like we got to make sure that we're hitting our protein goals with whatever meat that is.

And they understand that now.

I think in the beginning they had a little bit of pushback, but they get that because they know that like that's like the most important.

But when it comes to outside of the house, because I feel like inside of the house, it's easier to control, right?

It's outside of the house, at school, at the birthday parties, those things where a few years back, I had more anxiety around it.

I feel like I've loosened up a little bit, but like to the point where I would, you know, bring my own cupcake to the kids' birthday parties and that didn't have dice.

i'm dead i would do that too i mean yeah it was like a little a little much but so now i'm kind of at a point where i'm like okay it's gonna be okay if they have a cupcake from the grocery at this birthday party because like they're not doing that every single day yeah so i've tried to loosen up a little bit now i do see behavioral things especially from the dyes and like the cane sugar yeah yeah

So like a lot of times after the birthday parties or any events or whether it's Halloween or whatever, I do see like some meltdowns and some tantrums that I know is a direct cause from the ingredients.

But at the end of the day, just like we go get ice cream out on date night or whatever, like they can have those moments too and it's going to be okay.

I think it's the 90% of the time, what are you doing at home where we can make the biggest impact.

And on Halloween, we actually have a font because this Halloween, I feel like will just pop up in just a few months.

So we do this thing called the Switch Witch.

Okay.

Where we let them go Halloween, like candy trick-or-treating in the neighborhood.

They get all the things, Snickers, Twix, you name it, Skittles.

And we let them pick about five to ten pieces.