No fast food

So I don't know if I posted this before but for a new years resolution we decided to not eat fast food this year. Mostly I am doing it so that my family will be more healthy. I always feel guilty when I tell my kids I am going to give them a meal and it is fast food because the whole point of eating is to nourish your body and there aren't any nutrients in fast food. Even the salads taste greasey to me. I didn't really take the kids to fast food too often, if I was out too long we would go through a drive through maybe one or two times a month. Mostly though I wanted to do it because Eric would have fast food for lunch every day. He had it down to a science where he would only spend $2-$3 at Taco Bell each day, which isn't too much money but as said above it just isn't nutritious. Anyway, so I told him that if he would support this resolution that I would make him lunch every day to take to work. He was fully supportive of this and I am proud to report that we haven't bought fast food since January 1st, where we totally spaced and went through the Carl's Jr. drive through for breakfast on our way to the Science Center. Anway, the rules are that we can't have anything from a restaurant with a drive-through. Dallin was devastated when we told him we were doing this. He started crying and said that it was just mean. He lamented for 2 days but now he has accepted it and is fine. I think he is funny though because he really didn't care about the food, he mostly wants the toys but those are expensive so I wasn't really in the habit of buying those anyway.

Last week I was watching a friend's kids and she offered to bring lunch, I accepted and she brought over Wendy's. I didn't feel that it broke our rule though because I didn't buy it. When it was offered to Dallin though he said "It's fast food. We don't eat that." I told him it was ok though because someone else bought it. I wasn't hungry that day so I didn't have any. I am pretty proud of us though, especially Eric. He really craved a burger for the first month or so but now he seems to be dealing with it. I hope this will be the beginning of a healthier family!