Project 365 ~ Juicing, our way!

Day 8 ~ 15

Nick loves his daily fruit and vegetable juice, therefore my once a day image for the next few days will revolve around his juice! #aperture

It wasn't so long ago that Nick would only eat sweet red apples. These days he is happy to try any
variety, regardless of colour or flavour. I also add in variation by randomly removing the peel, leaving the peel on or doing a bit of both.  #samebutdifferent

Gang, I got a little sidetracked.......

I had major plans to photograph spinach (of all things!) for today's picture. However, I took Nick
to Physio this morning and to pass the time while he was beavering away, I pulled out my camera.
I found the following reflection in a puddle. Now, how cool is that? I am so chuffed with myself,
although irritated that there is a sun spot. I need to think about getting some sort of editing program. Suggestions welcome. :)

Nothing beats having a bit of baby spinach in a fruit and veg juice! Healthy or what? 

Ever tried taking a photo of carrots? So boring... or perhaps it is my imagination! 

I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew with this crazy challenge that I have set myself! I totally understand if you don't follow my Project 365 ~ come back and check my efforts in 50 weeks! Hoping like hell that there will be huge improvement!

Chopped and ready to go. I do change the ingredients, it all depends on what I have in the fridge or fruit bowl.

And, here we have it. One glass of extremely healthy fruit and vegetable juice. Yum!

Food issues ~ making changes

Part One!

A few weeks back, as I was pounding away on the treadmill and wiping my sweaty brow, I listened to the two other women who were sharing the training session with me. They were talking about their children and the problems that they were having over food issues. Fruit was packed into the school lunch box and coming home untouched. One child thought that life was so unfair because all her friends had Nutella sandwiches on white bread every day and why couldn't she?

I thought to myself, "Oh, if only they knew!"

If only they knew how restrictive my son's diet is. If only they knew that my son has slowly and gradually, over the last few months, started eliminating some of his regular food and was becoming increasingly reliant on cereal, toast and apples. If only they knew the immense stress that I was feeling about my son's appalling diet and how I worried every day on how to deal with it.

My son's eating habits have always been extremely limiting and a cause for concern. Over the years I have tried various methods to entice him to try a new food. Due to his huge sensory issues and a fear of the uncertain he always dug in his heels and refused to open that mouth!

Last year saw a change to this pattern. I spent a lot of time just offering him a smell of different types of food, without any pressure to have a taste. It worked well, BUT after months of this, he still refused to try anything new.

I then introduced the concept of fresh juice. Using an RDI planned engagement, we started making freshly squeezed orange juice and *jumping up and down with excitement*, he actually starting drinking it! With little steps and using my RDI mindset, I then began to add little challenges and changes to the juice. To cut a long story short, he is now drinking a lovely combo of spinach, orange, carrots and various other fruits. I am slowly adding bulk to the juice in order for him to get better nutrients and also become accustomed to a thicker mixture. I am working my way towards healthy smoothies!