The kid eats like a Hobbit -- filling food suggestions?

dirkgently, backhoe, rotfl! Grapes are another fruit that never sees the light of day again once she gets her hands on them, and blueberries, too. If she's not hoovering them from the container, they're burying a bowl of yogurt or pile of whipped cream. Cheeses also die a quick & painful death.

Well, I can tell you something from experience. I used to come home after working for twelve hours and start eating, eating steady till I went to sleep. Now, all I usually had all day was coffee, sometimes a peanut butter cup if my sugar ran low.

I noticed that I could turn off the hunger with a PB&J sandwich on toast. If I ate one when I came home I wouldn't eat much at all. There is something in a PB&J sandwich on toast that killed hunger in me.

I tried doing some research on this and found many chemicals it had that could have made it do this. Some were vitamins and minerals, but most were all sorts of chemicals in the combo. This may not work for everyone, but it does work for me and I am sure it will work for another ten million people minimum in the world. You should have either coffee or milk with that, depending on what you feel like. The kids will learn what they are craving and subconsciously make a note of it and learn to stare in the refrigerator letting all the cold air out while they are trying to figure what their subconscious is trying to tell them.

The pectin in jam actually can attach to the oxalates in the peanut butter and keep them from causing problems.  Now, oxalates are both necessary in our diet and also can be problematic depending on what you do.  If you consume high calcium foods when consuming the oxalates, the oxalates attach to the calcium and form stones in the gut which can't enter into the bloodstream to bother the gall bladder or the kidneys with stones.  So even some milk with the peanut butter can help with that.  I think I mentioned maybe drinking milk with the PB&J sandwich earlier.  But pectin in jelly also works to keep it from being overly absorbed.  There are lots of things we eat that are companion foods.  Peanuts also contain caffeic acid which has some good effects, but often those effects are cancelled out by improper handling of the nuts.  The presence of fungus by improper processing of peanuts by a big company a while back caused the caffeic acid to be neutralized and they lost their protection against many microbes so they contained food poisoning chemistry even though the microbes were dead.

Hopefully we do not have such a massive problem with that in the future, once you build up antigens to the chemical you then have allergic reactions to peanuts and this problem might be able to be passed on to your children.  New evidence is showing this to be very possible.

But if your kids have no problem with peanuts, then chances are that they will not get these cytokine storms.

When kids go through their growth spurts, they eat like bunnies going through their growth spurt.  We had bunnies for a while, they had around ten babies every six weeks.  We let some go in the woods and gave a lot away.  I know how much teenage bunnies can eat, teen age kids do the same thing.  If you restrict food, sometimes it can create problems by interupting the growth cycle.  Your kids should crave what they need, your job is to supply the cravings.  Now sugar and certain food attractant chemistry can hijack those cravings.  Some of this chemistry actually has a purpose though, but that is hard to evaluate. 

I still have much to learn and also I spend a lot of time evaluating and comparing what I am learning.  I am finding severe flaws in the nutrition fads of this country, they are taking just bits and pieces of evidence to formulate their ideas, ignoring things that we do not yet know.  This has gotten extremely bad over the last twenty years but they are doing more real research now and in another twenty years they may have a better policy.  I can tell you right now what it will be.  Let your kids eat what they crave, when they crave it but warn them about eating in moderation and that their metabolism will quickly change and they may need to PAY ATTENTION to side effects of what they are eating to make sure they do not get way overweight.  Sometimes habbits are formed during this growth cycle.  Too much highly processed chemical ladened food will cause their cravings to go astray.

Remember this also, you may have a hard time convincing a teenager that what you say is right, but if they actually try something, they will notice they feel better and then they will form new cravings and alter their diet a bit.  I bet after sucking down the peanut butter they are craving something high in calcium.  Bread contains calcium.

I use refined coconut oil, the kind without the coconut taste, to cook with.  If you use it to make the popcorn in a pot, the popcorn is great when the butter and salt is added.  For some reason it makes things taste really good.  And it is fairly healthy for you.  At six bucks for a twenty ounce bottle of organic stuff, it is not outrageously priced.  A bottle will last us about a month, but we do eat a lot of butter, we go through a pound and a half a week.  Real butter is great, it has some of the ancient oil in it that coconut oil has.

Bacon is a good source of fat and the grease is not bad to use for cooking some things like fried potatoes.  The meat around the ribs and stomach area of an animal has a different lipid profile than the fat from the leg muscles on an animal.  There is a better ratio of omega threes to the belly and rib fats. 

We buy the shortening made with mostly animal fat.  It is a lot better tasting than the crisco.  Crisco has gotten so chemical tasting lately, I guess the changes to lower the transfat made it taste worse.  It makes a lot better pie crust and it makes stuff fried in it taste a lot better.  Pure lard can be a little heartburny sometimes.  The difference in the price of the animal shortening vs Crisco isn't that much but it does taste better in things.

Saturated fats can moderate seizure activity and stray signals floating around.  You are observing her, that is good.  She seems to have a high metabolism and is trying to dampen it to remain civil.