we have been talking about the nutritional requirements of growing children...?
was it accurate that you had $100/person/per month for food?
can appreciate the difficulty to provide healthy meals on low income; there are many people throughout the world who do it everyday and often children do only get one meal/day
read a report of one family where the parents only ate every other day so their child could eat one meal every day
do know that often children can recover from inadequate nutrition because our bodies are so amazing
our child lived in a very poor orphanage and came to us with her bones showing
for two yrs, only gave her nutritious food/no dessert
(except for her birthday cupcake)
did not allow anyone to give her lollipops (which weirdly every place tries to do) , nor allow cake/desserts at other family events
no juice boxes, no cookies, etc
after 2 yrs she was healthy and to this day, she turns down sweets/junk at school that teachers try to give as she knows it's not healthy
am I saying we never have a sweet here and there now
no, but we eat our frts/veggies first
despite 2 yrs of poor nutrition, our child is healthy and has never taken an antibiotic and didn't miss one day of school this yr
so I know kids can rebound after inadequate nutrition