sugar be gone.

Here is a snapshot of Ava pretending she can't see very good (hence the partially formed bendaroo eyeglasses) with a little cookies and milk snack.  I was just talking to my sister about this, but it's just crazy of me to always be giving her snacks like this when she actually likes carrots.  Hello!  Why am I feeding her cookies instead of carrots?  Because I am too lazy to wash the carrots, and that is the sad, sad truth.

And now that Valentine's Day is safely behind us (and I have finished eating every last chocolate truffle), I am officially giving up sugar six days a week.  And the kids are coming along with me on this little adventure.  Ava Carmel and Cam are especially little sugar-addicts like their mother.

I love that at their new school, they have a no treats policy.  So for kids birthdays and such, you bring something besides a treat to eat and teachers don't hand out treats for every little thing.  It was getting ridiculous at the other school--they were coming home with pockets full of candy everyday!

Now we have an overabundance of pencils.  But I'm a-okay with that.

So here are my plans to help this sugarless plan work:

1. Have snacks already prepped in the fridge: grapes, carrots, etc. washed and in little snack-sized bags, cucumbers sliced and ready to munch on.

2. No more jumbo bags of chocolate chips from Costco.  I make approximately one batch of cookies with the bag, and eat the rest handful by handful.  Not a healthy habit.

3.  One free day a week--probably Sunday or Monday--where we can eat whatevah.

4.  This is just for straight refined sugary stuff--like cookies, candy bars, etc.  Maybe one day we will add even more healthy habits on--like not buying crackers and cereals that have sugar as one of the top three ingredients--but for starters, we are eliminating the really obvious things.  You know me, I'm all about the baby steps!

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