An Apple a Day MIGHT keep the doctor away, among other vegetables and healthy meats and proteins, but too many will keep the doctor coming... and we discussed this in our very quick lesson using google finds.
My son is not thrilled that he had to give up his habit of a small dish of organic ice-cream or a small gluten-free ice-cream cone as his bedtime snack for Lent. We give up dairy and all processed foods during our Whole30 which we do during Lent for fasting and health reasons.
However, he does like his apples. Add a little peanut butter/almond butter (he claims he doesn't like almond butter but I mixed it half and half for two weeks without his knowledge...we are moving on to about 1/3 pb and 2/3 almond butter this week) and he's a happy kid.
So the other night he asked what was good about apples. " Let's make that a project for tomorrow", I said. "Write a note to remind us and we'll spend some time looking that up." So with apple in hand we did just that yesterday.
We found some pretty cool videos and sites.
Apples 101: Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits - This one we breezed through- and I made note of the link because I figured this will be a good base of vocabulary to start with as I begin teaching him REAL nutrition- not necessarily what you find in the public school health books (see below). He knows about vitamins & minerals, sort of , so that's what we are starting with (apples are a good source of vitamin c and potassium).
Here's his summary of the most important things we learned.
-Apples have vitamin c - even more than an orange!
-There's a lot of good stuff in the skin so we should eat that.
-It's better to eat the apple than the pie.
-There's sugar in apples so don't eat too many.
I don't think that's too bad for a quick fun lesson 😉
And today, he forgot all about apples and went on to paint and ladybugs 🙂 Funny kid.