Walking Backwards Upside Down
Where's the Real Meal?
Finding restaurants with better kids' choices
Friends often marvel at how well my 2½-year-old daughter eats. She likes vegetables — especially carrots, cucumbers and green beans — hummus, black beans and rice and almost any kind of fruit. She loves skim milk and won’t drink sugary juices. Perhaps her tastes are innate, but we also work hard to foster healthy eating. We cook balanced meals at home and shun fast food. We do like to go out occasionally, but we’re picky about where we go. Too many restaurants offer only the cliché (and unhealthy) kids’ meals: chicken fingers, hot dogs, hamburgers, French fries and macaroni and cheese. When did these become acceptable choices for kids? My daughter has never had a hot dog. She’s eaten chicken fingers once or twice — and didn’t like them — …
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