I’ve been yelled at before for suggesting that it’s not really a big deal if kids occasionally have a soda or a piece of candy. Usually I suggest that in Gwyneth Paltrow stories, often after Gwyneth has proudly pontificated about the joys of pushing her crazy food issues onto her children. For the record, I think there’s a happy medium, and for the record, I’m not a mom so obviously my opinion is moot. I don’t think kids should have sodas and candy and processed food every day, but the odd bag of Cheetos and a Pepsi is not the end of the world either. But not for Beyonce! Beyonce apparently had strict rules about what Blue Ivy is allowed to eat:
Beyonce is fierce about her duaghter’s food.
“She makes sure Blue only eats healthy,” a source tells Us Weekly’s Hot Stuff. “She doesn’t get any white sugar, unless it’s a birthday party or a special occasion.”
When Blue does crave something sweet, Bey finds a nutritious solution.
“She gives her fruit slices!”
Don’t even think about offering her kid Cheetos either. Adds the insider, “Processed foods are a big no for the family.”
[From Us Weekly, print edition]
Giving your kid fruit slices instead of cake isn’t a huge deal, and I think it’s good that Blue is allowed sugar on special occasions. Besides, Beyonce and Jay-Z can afford private chefs and the best cuisine in the world – it’s not like Blue is simply living on fruit slices and a slice of bread a day. Beyonce just monitors how much white sugar her daughter has. On a scale of Honey Boo Boo to Gwyneth Paltrow, this seems completely fine. If this was Gwyneth, she would be limiting her kids’ white sugar, their meat intake, their dairy intake and their carb intake. Goop probably thinks Beyonce’s food limitations are amateur hour. Although you know Blue is going to go on a processed food bender in her teenage years. That will be the rebellion. “I’m going to eat Cheetos AND I HATE YOU.”
Photos courtesy of WENN, Beyonce’s Tumblr.
Good for her! She’s teaching her to eat real food.
Exactly! This how it should be, whole foods, cake on special ocassions. Food doesn’t come from factories. I cut all that crap out, and I am so much better for doing so. Also sugar is a real addiction as destructive as any other.
Seriously. No one should eat those things. One can have plenty of food fun in life without eating refined and processed crap.
+100000
I wish the government were stricter about authorizing the use of chemical preservatives and other artificial or highly processed ingredients. Nitrates have been tied to a higher incidence of leukemia in children, artificial colours have been linked to behavioural problems, and the list goes on. A lot of foods containing these artificial ingredients are targeted at children.
This^
I feel the same and it’s scary thinking about how much we don’t even know about what we eat!
I think she is smart to teach good eating habits early (cannot believe I am calling Beyonce smart about something!). Having taught primary school, the food that parents send their children to school with is absolutely atrocious, and there was a marked difference in attention and energy-levels between kids with real food and kids with Lunchables. After going 90% raw vegan, I have easily dropped weight and feel better than I have in my adult life without feeling deprived or hungry. As long as Blue Ivy gets her regular, special-occasion treats, I don’t think she will rebel. Treats should be for special occasions, anyway.
Agreed – how is it withholding (?) with she is simply avoiding feeding her child garbage. Blue will have healthy eating habits – it’s all about habits that start when you’re young.
Smart, I did the same
it’s completely normal. You dont have to be Beyonce to do these obvious things of not addicting your child to crap.
Exactly. Also, she’s 2. It’s easy at 2 when they get all their food from you. My kids were 5 or 6 before they ever had soda. People were shocked that I withheld it from them. They were preschoolers! How hard is it to give them water or milk instead? Now they drink soda but they understand it is a sweet and we treat it as such.
Yes! Growing up, I wasn’t allowed to drink soda or eat cookies or sugary cereal or salt on a regular basis. I used to go over to my best friend’s house and eat five doughnuts. But it gave me a really good knowledge base and now I am able to eat healthfully and never have to diet. I’ve noticed that some people, like my in-laws, just don’t know how to eat healthfully and will go on crazy (dangerous!) diets when really, IMO, all they need to do is eat more fruits and veggies and whole grains and go for a daily walk.
Exactly. Things like soda, candy, sweets, McDonald’s, etc. were very occasional treats (birthdays, Xmas, etc.). Except for a few crazy years in college, I’ve followed that my whole adult life. I’ve literally had three sodas within the last five years, a Coke after a marathon, and a couple ginger beers when I was sick. Unless you are truly poor, it isn’t hard or expensive to eat whole foods.
I won’t say that my family eats the healthiest (because my mama’s from the south, and so we like our fried catfish, cornbread, greens, red velvet cake, pecan pie bars, etc)—but one thing that we don’t do, for the most part, is eat processed food. I mean sure, we eat chips and things like that (not regularly), but for the most part, the food we eat is homemade. The only things that my mom cooks with that is premade is stuff like tomato sauce (where she adds a ton of things to it, to make spaghetti sauce) and stuff like canned baked beans (again, where she adds a TON of things to it).
Case in point–my older sister probably weighs about 250 pounds, basically because she eats almost exclusively processed foods. I mean, she actually eat those tv dinner things, and stuff like that–gross. She lived with us for six months, and in those six months she dropped about 40 lbs, simply because she was eating homemade food–she didn’t exercise or anything.
I’d say the thing that we do drink a lot of is soda–which I’m trying to stop drinking…I haven’t drank one all week, and have been chugging water like crazy. But McDonalds is something of a ‘treat’–we basically only get it when there’s no food in the house, which is rare. My mom didn’t eat McDonalds until she turned twenty, and said that she took one bite and thought she had died and went to heaven–this was in the eighties though. Now she only eats McDonalds to help her go to the bathroom–she has constipation problems.
@Virgilia: there’s so much to be said for home cooking! Even if it’s not the most low fat meal the nutritional value in a dinner you make yourself more than makes up for it.
Same here. Raised on healthy food (with the odd treat) and developed a taste for it early in life, and to this day. Never had a weight problem though everyone else in my family does, apart from my brother–also raised on healthy whole foods.
Of course, I will also eat anything covered in orange cheese dust, given the chance, and anything pink. I just don’t do it often. 🙂
Oh Virgilia, the part where you said your mom only eats McD when she needs help to go to the bathroom, really KILLED me! it’s true, it’s so Junked out that your own body rejects it.
+1000
Also: apparently it’s easier to get toddlers and older kids under 10 to eat greens (aka “bitters”) if you withhold sugar from them in their first 3-4 years so they develop a palate that naturally adapts to vegetables. I have no idea what the science is here or if it’s been verified, but it seems to work for people I know in life who’ve done this (anecdata, I know). These people’s kids will eat anything in the sense that they aren’t fussy, they’re adventurous, and they adore veggies. They love healthy food and food from other regions than their own. Of course, I’m sure they are also “cultured” to treat food that way, too, by their parents, but it seems suggestive and if I had kids I’d be tempted to go that route.
I didn’t give my really young kids processed foods or a lot of sugar either-and even now that they’re older we try to avoid it. That crap is awful for everyone!
I agree. I do allow it on special occasions, like today he can have chocolate. I also make my own cookies if he wants a treat. That way I can control the sugar and use raisins instead of chocolate chips. God the 8 year old me would hate the 35 year old me! 😜
Hahah… So true!
Still shelling Pepsi, though.
Haha, good catch. You know it came from Bey’s camp then.
High fructose corn syrup, sodium benzoate (preservative linked to cancer), and caramel colour (a known carcinogen currently under review). It’s a shame because it’s not like she needs the money.
So? Obviously Blue Ivy won’t be drinking it.
True. But if she’s unwilling to feed it to her own family, and has no problem shilling it to everyone else, it’s pretty hypocritical.
Exactly. She’s clearly well aware of the harm sugar does to children, but she’s still happy to take millions of dollars to promote the most lethal form of sugar consumption to other people’s children.
The message seems to be that sugar is not good enough for HER child, but it’s fine for everyone else’s.
Who cares if it’s hypocritical? Her relationship with Pepsi is clearly a business relationship and nothing more. If someone offered me $20 million to slap my face on their brand I would do it, regardless of if I used the product or not.
People just want to nitpick because it’s Beyonce.
Who cares if it’s hypocritical? Well, I do for one.
And I hardly think it’s ‘nitpicking’ to point out the hypocrisy of accepting big bucks to shill a product which you KNOW is lethal to children’s health, while not allowing the same product anywhere near your own child. I would say the same about any celebrity.
See Erinn’s & Ice Maiden’s comments – d’uh!! It’s a slippery slope when you start doing blatantly hypocritical crap just for money, especially when you’re already beyond rich.
Really? Are you sure? She’s 2. No two year old should be drinking Pepsi. Jeez. Get of your high horse already. And I don’t even care for Beyonce but this is a little ridiculous.
@Ice maiden – it is not a hypocrisy, it’s an advertising (and distorting truth is an essence of any ad). It would be hypocrisy if she recommended pepsy and shitty food on her own accord or claimed that she ate it herself in interviews.
Eh? Pepsi are paying her milllions of dollars in the hope that her image will increase the sales of Pepsi. In other words, she’s taking tons of cash to promote a product she knows is extremely harmful to children’s health and certainly would not allow anywhere near her own child. What does it matter whether or not she claims to ‘eat’ Pepsi herself? Your distinction is arbitrary, to say the least.
VERY good catch. 🙂
Riveting information.
Excellent to do that. It can backfire though. My son went berserk when I could no longer control what he ate. To this day, he is a sugar addict. But I’m sure some kids will develop good eating habits as long as they’re allowed the occasional treat. Refined carbs/sugar are so bad for you, making your blood sugar skyrocket. In time they can do a lot more harm, including obesity, diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
My mom would not have certain foods in the house so of course those became the most desired foods when I was old enough to go to the store on my own. I think paying attention to ingredients and portion sizes are probably a better approach than outright banning sweets or salty snacks. Carbs aren’t bad, but it’s easy to overindulge.
I think some of it is genetic. My kids were fed pretty much the same from birth and yet one child is super picky, craves sugar all the time and only eats carbs. The other will try anything, loves stir fry and veggie intense dishes and eats dessert but doesn’t go nuts on it. I agree with the idea that teaching them about what they are eating and what it does to your body as well as portion control is really important. My daughter knows she can’t eat the way she does forever. It will catch up with her.
@dorothy Lol. Truest comment here, provided you add “/s” at the end.
Eh, that’s not weird. When my nephew was born, my sister kept buying him that nasty baby food in the jars, until my mom told her to just make him food (after he was done breastfeeding). So she would make mashed potatoes, mashed peas/carrots, she would cook either chicken or ground beef and put it through a food processor, so it came out really fine—then she would put them in little individual snack bags in the freezer and feed him that.
And beyond juice, and cake at birthdays and things, he never really got any sugar.
I think it’s all about balance. But I do agree with parents who want to teach their kids healthy eating habits.
So what? People don’t need to eat loads of refined sugar & processed food. Better to teach healthy eating habits now rather than bribe kids to eat their fruit & veggies later
Also, she’s only 2. She’s not making her food choices for herself yet (obviously she can like or not like something but she can’t prepare/access food herself) so it makes sense to try to give her healthy foods. and totally normal that she lets her have sweets at parties etc. We do the same thing w our little ones and don’t make a big deal about “oh this is a party so you better enjoy this sugar!” We don’t have juice at our house (bc it’s basically just sugar water) and when we go to parties my daughter always wants a juice box but never drinks it bc it’s just not familiar to her. I’m *hoping* to help her eat healthier, more whole foods from the beginning so when she grows up that’s what she will crave. (this is coming from the Mom who gets sick and wants spaghettios, tab, and white grape juice bc that’s what I had when I was little!)
I think you have to be careful. I had a friend who was so strict about what her children ate, no sugar, no salt, no junk food, nothing ever. We found her oldest squatting in the gutter by her house just shoving a half empty bag of Doritos he found on the ground into his mouth as fast as he could. She nearly had a heart attack and I nearly separated a rib from my rib cage to keep from laughing.
Oh my God–that would be ME! I’m glad my mom never banned cheetos….
There are versions of Cheetos without all the dyes, preservatives, and crazy amount of sodium, that are as tasty as the real thing. I wish they were more widely available and came in individual portions. Until then, single size Pirate Booty will have to do. 😉
Tings make a great non-dairy Cheetos fix, made by the same company that makes Pirate Booty I think. Tings is good computer food because it isn’t messy. The yellow color and cheesy taste come from nutritional yeast. Just a few ingredients also. Not for the salt sensitive… But really tasty.
Me and my cousin used to steal a bit of money when grandma was way, to go to the store and buy chips. Seriously.
😀
I have a similar story. My friend was neighbors with a family that forbade the children from having any junk food whatsoever at any time. The daughter ended up breaking into my friend’s garage and drinking almost an entire twelve pack of soda. They caught her on the garage floor surrounded by empty soda cans. Junk food should definitely not be the main staple in a child’s diet, but part of the fun of childhood is getting a junky treat every once in a while. It’s don’t think it’s good for a child’s diet to be one extreme or the other.
Hilarious! Yes, I think a little balance is in order or you can create a monster.
I do the same with my daughter, though now that she is 4 she does get the occasional processed snack as a treat from granny or her aunts and uncles. But at our house we stick to whole, real foods on your average day. I think it is a good happy medium.
Eh. Whatever. I don’t think it’s a big deal for kids to have a soda or a piece of candy now and then, either, but Blue Ivy is 2 years old. She doesn’t know how to ask for those things yet, so I think it’s reasonable enough to feed her healthy things now. Beyonce’s concert rider suggests that she likes some processed foods herself, so I don’t think her daughter will be forbidden to eat them when she’s old enough to want them.
I’m usually anti Bey, but I’m with her on this. Kids don’t need that crap and Blue’s too young to know what she’s missing out on just yet.
Her daughter is only 2, so of course she should be limiting her sugar and processed food intake. I’m only 20 days into this parenting thing but I plan on doing the same with my daughter. Start them off with healthy eating habits and it will last them throughout their life. Beyonce obviously takes care of herself, she’s small but fit and healthy, and it’s great she wants to set a good example for Blue.
I have no problem with this and of course we don’ t know what really happens, just what’s in these reports from “sources.” We are a no-processed foods, no white sugar, whole grains only family at home. I started following this “mommy blog” 100daysofrealfoods and fairly sensible. When we’re on the road, at restaurants, at friend’s houses, we don’t really worry about it. My two year old loves his “Dunka Dooduts!” I suspect that’s the story here too. HOWEVER, my friend’s son goes to daycare with the son of 2 huge celebrities and told me he’s on a gluten free, no sugar, vegan, super strict diet and the poor kid is always starving and stealing food from other kids. She caught him climbing on a counter and stuffing a sleeve of Ritz crackers in his mouth one morning. That’s a little wackadoo.
I’m not a fan, but I agree with her here – while still pointing out the MASSIVE hypocrisy of her shilling for Pepsi.
Sugar is lethal. I’ve been doing a lot of research about it, and it’s really horrible stuff. Until about 200 years ago, the vast majority of people had no added sugar in their diet at all. Our bodies simply aren’t adapted to the massive amounts of the stuff we now consume, and it has NO health benefits. Nobody’s health would suffer if they never eat a spoonful of sugar ever again.
I’ve recently started cutting down on sugar – I now rarely eat milk chocolate, don’t drink fizzy drinks or fruit juice, and have gotton into the habit of always reading the labels on food I buy. It’s really quite shocking how much food is there, even in things like bread, tomato puree and other places you’d never expect to find it. And from what I’ve heard, it’s much worse in the US. So for once, I agree with Beyonce.
Agree with you, the average person in the UK consumes 22 teaspoons of sugar per DAY via fizzy drinks, processed foods etc. The food industry as requested by government cut down on fat in processed foods (with the best of intentions ‘experts’ believed fat was the cause of increasing weight problems) and upped the sugar content that is highly addictive and designed to make you eat more. We have a massive obesity epidemic in the west because of this. I’m ambivalent towards Beyonce but she’s right – but her message would be more powerful if she wasn’t selling Pepsi…
Yes, the low-fat campaigns since the 1970s have been a flop, because they just don’t work. Our bodies are adjusted to eating large amounts of fat. They are NOT adjusted to eating sugar. In nature, sugar is very rare. Eating it in the amounts people in the West eat it wreaks havoc on our metabolism in so many ways, as is clear from books by the likes of Dr. Robert Lustig or David Gillespie.
Since cutting down on sugar I’ve noticed I’ve lost quite a bit of weight around my waist. I’ve never been fat, but since hitting my 40s I’ve noticed the start of a ‘spare tyre’. Also, I’ve found that I snack much less and have fewer food cravings since reducing my sugar intake. I don’t think I’ll ever cut it out completely – I love chocolate and ice-cream too much – but I’m definitely eating a lot less of it than I did only a few months ago, without even trying all that hard.
@ Ice Maiden, the sad thing is that Prof John Yudkin – who was the founder of the nutrition dept at the University of London’s Queen Elizabeth College – wrote a book in 1972 called ‘Pure White and Deadly’ that detailed and predicted all of the problems we were going to have with sugar. He wrote “If only a small fraction of what we know about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive that material would promptly be banned” this resulted in a campaign by the food industry and several scientists to discredit Yudkins work. It’s all very reminiscent of where we were with the tobacco industry a few years back. Like you I couldn’t ever see myself giving the stuff up but after a lifetime of weight problems – taking it all off, putting it all back on again – I cut back severely and I’ve lost 28 lbs as a result – I just wish I had known that’s where the real problem was sooner.
Yes – poor Dr. Yudkin was subjected to a very nasty campaign of villification by the food industry. And I bet it’s worse now than then.
One of Yudkin’s ‘disciples’, Dr. Robert Lustig, talks about this in this fascinating documentary. Yudkin is discussed from about halfway through the programme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6nGlLUBkOQ
@ Ice Maiden – cheers for the link – I’ll watch that and no doubt find it very depressing! 😀
Yes! After moving from the US to Germany my eyes were opened to our insanely toxic eating habits. It’s no wonder that obesity related illnesses top the charts. Sugar is in everything and it IS addictive. But the manufacturers know that. It’s no different at all from how Big Tobacco functioned and profited (still does)
Yes – the ‘low fat’ campaigns of the 70s were straightforward in the sense that it was easy to persuade food manufacturers to slap a ‘low fat’ label on food, and fill it up with salt and sugar instead. Problem solved – and you could even market your food as ‘healthy’. But, as you say, sugar really is everywhere. And it’s addictive. It would be very difficult for the food industry to comply with severe restrictions on it, or even on a public information campaign designed to inform people of just how bad sugar is, and just how ubiquitous it is. So they will fight tooth and nail to prevent this ever happening.
@ mytbean and Ice Maiden – sorry I wrote my post in response to Ice Maiden then scrolled down – I pretty much repeated what you both said – still, great minds think alike 😀
I think Goop is an elitist, but I do yoga, so of course I read about Christie Turlington, who was a former 80s supermodel. Anyway, I read that she ate no processed food whatsoever, and that was her only “diet”. It was shocking to me at the time. I subsisted on protein smoothies and power bars, etc. But when I became preggers I literally had an aversion to anything processed of course including sugar. Our food industry is just so saturated w/garbage, it’s hard to conceive of alternatives, but whole foods became my normal. My kid came home wanting white bread type things, but the organic versions can be a “treat”. It’s actually easy to avoid sugar, even kids lose the taste for it, or know it’s “junk” and for rare occasions. I model good eating habits, and that’s how he eats too; my seven year old eats salads. Monkey see monkey do:)
good, those things will kill you!
Cant shit on that at all my parents were that way, and so is my sister with her kids, she limits the stuff a bit less than my parents did but she is pretty firm about watching their sugar.. Now they are older and are always begging for candy and stuff but they even will tell you, “don’t give me too much Aunty QQ, I wanna be healthy” LOL
If it’s true, good for Bey!
The first thing I’ve liked about Beyonce in a while! Good for her!
My parents did the same with us and I remember having a very happy childhood. But they were not orthorexics. We were allowed to enjoy my grandma’s cookies and cake and such.
The funny thing is now I do not really like sweets that much and I dislike the taste of hydrogenated fats.
If I had a kid I would probably do the same.
I dont have any issues with that. My parents didn’t let us eat processed foods either. McDonald’s was a special once in a great while treat. When we did movie nights at our house (once or twice a week growing up) my parents would cut up fruit and veggies for us to eat. I grew up loving pineapple, apple, etc.
I agree with Beyoncé. I try to limit sugar and processed foods with my children (my youngest is only 8 months, but all his solid foods are steamed/pureed from fresh veggies and fruits).
On the same note, however, if you don’t have a personal chef and millions of dollars, HOW do you eat healthy foods 95% of the time? Fruits and veggies are simple. What about non-processed snacks that EVERYONE in the house will enjoy? What about dinners that have healthy ingredients that won’t break the bank? It seems like every time I try to change our eating habits to something healthier, I’m told I’m doing it all wrong! It’s almost exhausting.
This is absolutely an issue. We are addressing it in our home right now. I work, and travel quite a bit, and MrBuckeye works as well.
We identified about 30 standard recipes, that are healthy, and that everyone will eat, such as Shrimp with Curry and Veggies, Turkey Tacos, Spaghetti (Turkey meat red sauce and chia pasta), etc etc. Then I cook 3-4x the necessary amount, and freeze the leftovers into family meal portions. I keep a cycle going, where I cook 3-4 meals a week, and eat out of the freezer the other nights. If I’m out of town, instead of eating out or picking up fast food, the boys eat out of the freezer. This has impacted our wallet (less impulsive eating out, MrBuckeye packs his lunch if he doesn’t have a client meeting, less food waste), and ensured we know exactly what’s in our food.
I also have no mercy on MrBuckeye. He has to help me figure out what I’m cooking, and if I’m going out of town, he’s up to ensure the kiddo doesn’t eat chicken nuggets. It takes a few hours to get started, but I created a spreadsheet showing what we have in “stock” (in the freezer), and what we’re cooking and eating fresh each week. Now I just update prior to buying groceries, print my grocery list, and bam. Done for another week.
This is actually a good thing. Obesity is a pretty big epidemic in America. And, its not like she always says “No” to sweets.
No white sugar? She sounds racist. 😉
That was funny
*crickets*
Why is this news? My almost 3 year old son gets protein (chicken, shrimp, turkey, beef, pork, fish, black beans, etc), veggies and fruits, and bread occasionally. Birthday parties are a treat for a reason. We talk about food as fuel, and just this past week set out a free access zone, with super healthy snacks that he can have anytime except 1-2 hours before meals, with almonds, bananas, apples, etc.
I’ve talked often about disordered eating, and how much of a hell it has made my life. If Beyonce is trying to teach Blue Ivy that most of her meals should be on the healthy end of the spectrum, she is setting her up for healthy habits later in life. Most of this just seems like it has been sensationalized. We know B is a control freak…this doesn’t seem that excessive.
Good for Bey for teaching Blue to eat right at an early age. I did the same with my son for as long as I could, eventually the peer pressure won out.
Good! Sugar is toxic and there is more and more info coming out about how dangerous it can be. It sounds like she lets her have some on special occasions so it’s not like she’s deprived. No one should be eating that crap regularly.
I think the real story here is her zombie-like expression in that first photo. What is UP with that? What is she trying to convey here? Superpowers of some sort? She looks like the scary lady from the “smokey eye” commercial.
Yes, in a thread where we’re talking about the health and eating habits of her child, the real story is the way she looks 😉
It’s celeBITCHY.
Carry on.
Lol yup. A place where the focus is always on how a person looks. Thanks for the reminder.
Oh please. Stop it with the butthurting and let people say what they like. If you’d prefer to discuss more serious issues regarding this topic there is plenty of room for that too.
I’ve grown up like that, I had my first soda (Pepsi) at 10.
It’s not a big deal, and I am grateful to my mum for having been so stricted: I’ve tasted processed food in my adulthood, but even now I don’t eat it because I don’t like it that much.
My mom did the same when we were growing up. (My dad would sneak us sugary treats when she wasnt home lol) I didnt appreciate healthy eating when I was a kid. As I got older though, and read about the dangers of processed food, I realized how awesome my mom was. It’s important to be balanced though. I think that if you completely ban sweets, then your children will go CRAZY when they’re away from you. A little boy at the school I work at was not allowed to eat ANY sweets, ice cream and cake were banned even on special occasions. He begged for the snacks others brought and ended up stealing money from his classmates to buy ice cream and cookies during lunch. Not good.
A little dramatic to say she’s withholding, don’tcha think? There’s a difference between not giving and actively withholding something.
I know. It’s not like she is eating a cupcake in front of the kid and not sharing. Beyonce makes me cringe but I see nothing wrong with teaching a kid to eat healthful foods.
Yeah, withholding seems a bit strong. Withhold implies a denial of some kind of necessity. I don’t think Cheetos and soda fall into that category.
OMG who knew Beyonce and I were so alike!?!?!?!?!?
so i guess i’m supposed to say “wow! beyonce, you’re such a great mother”.
Well done, Beyonce! If only more people would follow her example.
I’m eating a Twinkie right now…for real. Hanging head in shame…..
Now I want a Twinkie. 🙂
Good for her. If only we all had the discipline to do the same.
Even though she can’t prepare her own food, my two year old can grab fruit off the table and eat it. She can pour herself water from the dispenser at leisure. She loves Barbara’s puffs(like Cheetos), seltzer water and cookies I make with stevia and xylitol. What I’m getting at is- she very much has an opinion on what she wants to eat and it’s our job as parents to surround them with healthful options. I was raised with good food and never felt the need to bing because that good food became the standard. A bag of chips could never compare to my moms good cooking.
So it’s known on here that I dislike Beyonce. It’s due to me feeling that she’s the best thing in the world (Her and Kim have that in common). She had talent but now I would say it’s decreasing due to her large star and not really needing to try. When she went solo, girl was on fire- I’ll give her that. I’ve been on other sites such as Dlisted and Bossip and they point out one major thing. Beyonce always makes sure there are photos out of her looking glammed up while if we see Blue it’s the back of her head. Bloggers have speculated it’s because she looks exactly like Jay-Z. I get not wanting to show off your kid but, to me, that should include not even having them in any pictures (If you’re going to take steps like that). It’s looking more and more like she isn’t thrilled that her child came out with the face of her father and it honestly makes me wonder if Blue is going to have a complex about not being ‘pretty like mommy’. I think Blue is cuter than Nori but this is something I’m genuinely asking (and not trying to be an ass for once). Does it come across that way to other people?
I think it can be greatly liberating, if you are the daughter of a famously beautiful woman, to look nothing like your Mom. That way, people won’t expect you to be a mini-her.
Blue will have the chance to grow up and be her own person – a chance that she would never have if she were B’s spitting image. Heck, they might even send Blue to university!
I dunno, I’m not a massive fan of the woman but I think she plays it pretty well with Blue Ivy being obscured in photos. There’s plenty of pap photos showing the baby’s face so it’s not like they’re hyperactive about trying to shield her, but the way she ONLY posts photos of the back of her head, in my opinion, is a pretty clever medium between sharing the cutesy things they do as a family without subjecting her child to a barrage of abuse (e.g. Nori West, every time Kim posts a photo I’m pretty horrified at how outright mean people can be. She’s a baby, people calling her ugly or hairy or whatever is just… wow….). So this way she gets all of the PR ‘good mom’ stuff without throwing her child’s physical appearance to the lions.
Just my two cents!
Everything in moderation. I would raise my kids vegan, but still allow them to have sweets occasionally, etc.
Major props to Beyonce for this. That stuff is unhealthy and often literally toxic.
That’s not withholding, that’s good parenting!
I wish Bey would stop trying to be too blonde…..why?
I’m sure with goop’ s influence and recently going on their “vegan diets” they do limit some of blue’ s diet but didn’t we just see pictures of her handing the child a cotton candy when they shut down the zoo in Miami? Essentially a huge wad of white sugar spun into sweet sweet love
Okay, I guess she got the memo: Fruit is Nature’s candy; white bread, white bread – eat too much & you’ll soon be dead; it’s never too soon to learn healthy eating habits; & junk is, well, junk.
I guess US Weekly wants everyone to get this memo: Beyonce has control over what her two year old consumes. She is sooooo BOSS!
Yay for ‘Yonce – she cares about her child’s health!
OKAY?????? Thanks for that, Bey…you are soooo appreciated.
Humans didn’t evolve on Twinkies and root beer… It makes sense to provide tasty high-nutrition foods especially to children (who can have behavior and physical problems from refined sugar) and the first few years are the only time a parent has real control over what the kid eats. Very young children and toddlers don’t have a lot of capacity for food, so it especially makes sense to avoid foods with low or no nutritional punch. The craving for junk comes from tv commercials and watching other kids eating it, not from any innate need for it. Sugar used to be a rarity or unavailable for everybody except in fruit. Treat foods don’t have to be sweet.
I understand this one. I would have killed anyone with my bare hands if they gave my child sugar in this 1st two years; how would he get pressured into wanting garbage unless it was shoved in his face? I wanted his palate to not get fried out by processed foods. After the breastfeeding phase, he ate rare meat, cheese, sweet potatoes, most veggies, eggs, etc. I actually held off on fruit for the 1st two years, some fruit, but most fruit available is an hybrid with way to much sugar. People thought I was a freak; you can imagine I didn’t have a lot of mom friends. I was determined and fired a few babysitters who either tried to sneak it for bribes or who mocked me. I grew sweet peas in the garden, and I swear, for the 1st 2years it was ambrosia for him to find and eat garden peas.
When he started play camps and school, he got exposed to processed foods, and I incorporated some of those but the organic version. He is a child of the world, but his “home” will always be what he received in his formative years. I don’t make it a big deal; we have candy on a visible shelf and he can have some with friends or after a day meal. We totally moderate, but don’t restrict completely. I notice he moderates himself; i’ve had a bag of jelly beans on a shelf for years. I don’t eat any processed foods myself because I lost the taste for it during pregnancy. Haven’t’ eaten processed foods in 10 years. You lose that craving for what burns your tongue and gives you gas, it’s not that illogical.
And ps, of course he’s a healthy weight and height, skin tone, etc. I did have him allergy tested and he has absolutely none of that. I try to let him know we are lucky to be exposed to good food where we live.
I’m sorry, but children should never be given cheerios and soda. Ever. Those things make them hyper and unable to concentrate. You wouldn’t advocate occasional poisoning a child if the bag of food came labelled ‘cyanide’. Cheerios and soda are poison no matter the age, but at least adults have the ability to choose to poison themselves whereas children do not.
I personally have no problem with children having candy or soda occasionally-when they’re old enough to ask for it! Ivy’s young enough to not really understand what she’s missing, so Beyonce is trying to take advantage of that and gear her towards healthy food early. I don’t like Beyonce, but I can’t argue with that.