Day One - the rules.

Kids like games.  That's a given.  Add a little healthy competition and this whole primalizing becomes more interesting.

We've come up with a points system.  The kids will collect points for each meal eaten - and they will later be able to cash in their points for something special.

Here are the rules & the points system:

1. You must try everything - even if you know you don't like it, studies show that it takes 10 tries of something new to determine if you like it.

2. 1 point for each item tried, but if you finish that entire item you will get 3 points

3. 5 bonus points for clearing your plate

Tonight's meal, 17 possible points:

Sweet potato, green beans with almonds, cedar plank salmon, bacon wrapped shrimp.  (Mom and Dad both scored 17 points! Delicious!)

Chloe 

Chloe was most determined to score high on points for this meal.  She received a total of 8/17 points.  She got 3 points each for eating her veggies, and 1 point for trying both meat items.  She was quite scared to eat the shrimp - took some convincing.  She didn't like it.  The bacon was too gristly, and the shrimp texture was not at all appealing for her.

Sophie

Sophie scored 6/17 points.  1 point each for sampling the veggies and salmon.  3 points for finishing her bacon wrapped shrimp.

Daphne

Daphne scored a total of 7/17 points.  3 points each for finishing her salmon & bacon wrapped shrimp.  1 point for sampling (and hating!) the beans.  The sweet potato was a complete no go for her.

Bacon wrapped shrimp recipe was found in the cookbook "Gather".  And the cedar plank salmon was my own creation - which was a near disaster as the plank caught fire (see burned edges) and the salmon ended up slightly overcooked.  Tasted delicious though!!

Tomorrow the kids have a hot dog lunch at school....  I wish they wouldn't do such events. The school is often the source of information on "healthy" eating, yet the kids seem to eat a fair amount of junk food there.  Seems like a bit of a disconnect.  My hope is that one day the kids will opt out of junk food at school voluntarily.

If you would like to follow the day's meals, please check out my Instagram Feed for regular updates & photos, username "suryayogaregina" or twitter, same user name, hash tag #projectprimalkids.