Want a Healthy Family Meal Plan for Your Resolution to Eat Better?Here’s a one Week Healthy Family Meal Plan that Limit Sugars and Processed Foods
One of our healthy family menu makers enjoys his salad.
Why don’t you join us? Our gluten-free family has made a new year resolution to create a seasonal Healthy Family Meal Plan that we can use and reuse over and over throughout the year. I hope to create a few lists for each season to add some variety in our healthy family menus. Some of the recipes are our own and some are from other health conscious foodies like ourselves.
We have always striven to eat healthy since our oldest son was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2007. But as most folks in the celiac community know, today there are a lot of indulgent prepackaged gluten free foods available which are not nutrient rich. Although these foods are tasty and convenient, they are often sweeter than their gluten containing counterparts. And our family has been guilty of making some of these foods staples after our son recovered. As we began to allow more sweets into our diet I started to feel guilty. So in 2012 I’m all about getting back to the basics and whittling the sugar out again. So our family is going to embrace a low sugar lifestyle more wholeheartedly this year. This week I’ve picked recipes that will pack the highest amount of nutrients on our kids’ plates. It’s a tall order, but we have a guy in our house who has become a picky eater with a sweet tooth. He’s still quite young and I’m hoping our healthy family menu will help to change his relationship with sugar for the long term.
NOTE: *if you are celiac and want to do this Healthy Family Meal Plan too, be sure to use certified gluten free oats!
Week 1 Healthy Family Meal Plan for our New Year Resolution
So there you have it, our first Healthy Family Meal Plan for the new year. If I can organize a formal shopping list with a budget I’ll post a link to it here (a tall order with a new infant in the house, but I will try. 
Our kids attend school and need to brown bag their lunch every day. We plan to include packs of all natural preservative free applesauce, raw carrots, raisins, sliced cucumbers, cold cuts of meat, all natural preservative free lunch meat, occasional boiled eggs, and dates in their lunches. Since dinner is at 6 in our house, we’ll eat the lunch recipes listed here as after school snacks Monday through Friday.
Okay, my New Year’s Resolution is moments away from reality…. I am going to press “Publish” and make it official.
*YIKES!*
Here goes….
