What I’m OCD About

Nov 7, 2011 by Paula

Okay, I suck at this blog challenge thing but I’m still glad because I have topics ready to write about anytime. Like for today, I’m going to tell you what I’m OCD about. It’s not about making the house clean and tidy but its ‘ll about the food we eat. I’m really conscious about the food my family eats and by that I don’t mean cooking food that are so popular these days – tastes yummy but empty of nutrients or rich in calories. I want them simple and nutritious and I don’t want my family to eat meat all the time.

I alternate between different kinds of food, for example, for Monday we’ll have vegetables, Tuesday – fish, Wednesday – pork, Thursday – veggies again, Friday – chicken, Saturday – fish and veggies, and on Sunday we can indulge and eat something special like the chicken hamonado we had last Sunday.

If I can get away with serving vegetable dishes every day of the week I would but alas I have to keep my husband happy too, right? Obesity is on the rise and if more people will eat healthy even doctors will have a hard time looking for Family or General Practitioner Jobs!

Anyway, let me share you a small success hubby and I had with our eldest. My hubby isn’t really the poster child for healthy eating. He’ll eat hot dogs and chips and drink soda everyday if I don’t bug him about it. If we have vegetables for lunch he’ll loudly declare, “Vegetables again?!” Pretty soon, our son won’t eat his veggies although he was eating these ever since he was little it doesn’t matter. Dad doesn’t eat veggies so he won’t too. When I pointed this out to hubby he realized the negative effect to his son so instead of saying he doesn’t like veggies he would say the opposite. This told Z that hubby and I are united in eating veggies so he had no choice but to follow even if it meant eating the infamous ampalaya. haha! Even hubby who wasn’t used to eating that had no choice but to set an example to his son. But the best part was he actually liked it. So now we’re serving it regularly at the table and it’s such a sweet success for me.