A Little Less Parental Guilt
Not as Bad as I Thought
If you’re a parent like me, it seems that every day presents a few more reasons to feel guilty about the things we haven’t done right by our kids.
Louisa, “Mom, where’s my basketball shirt?”
Me, “Did you look in your drawer?”
Louisa, “It’s not there.”
Me, “Check the pile of clothes in the laundry room.”
Louisa, “It’s there. I need it in a half an hour for my game.”
Me, “Shake it out.”
As you can see, not exactly the model of perfect parenting. That’s why I was so happy to catch a news bit today about the value of whole grain white bread. Let me explain.
As any health conscious parent knows, we’re supposed to feed our kids whole grain bread. But, mine have never taken much of a liking to whole wheat or multigrain bread, and when that’s the only type of sandwich bread in the house, we can have a lunchbox situation. Meaning, nobody wants lunch, and the bread dries out and/or turns moldy. If the bread isn’t soft, as is usually the case with the organic sandwich breads after a day, Joe isn’t particularly fond of it either. And true confessions, I don’t like whole wheat or multigrain sandwich bread either. The flavor is too strong for the filling. That’s why I had given up buying anything other than oatmeal bread which, although it sounds healthy, isn’t that much better than white bread.
Then over the past year I discovered something called “whole grain white”. It looks like white bread, and stays soft as long as the oatmeal bread. It seemed like a win-win for health vs. taste and texture. But I’ve still been feeling kind of guilty, assuming that it’s just a better version of white bread, but not as good as that whole grain stuff. Until today. Today I read in a Q&A health column, authored by the famous Dr. Oz from Oprah, that whole grain white bread is as good as the whole grain or wheat sandwich bread.
Score one for the Mom.
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Serendipity! Feeding a family is full of happy accidents.
Glad Dr. Oz cleared that up for us. I, too, dislike whole wheat and whole grain breads and use whole grain white bread and oatmeal bread for sandwiches. Now if someone would just find out how good Wonder and Silvercup white breads are for us I’d be in heaven!
I am always a little skeptical of those “TV” doctors. The Wizard of OZ was a fake, who knows about Doctor “OZ”
I’ve never had Silvercup bread. Is that like Wonder? Do you really like Wonder Bread and its pasty texture?