{"id":14085,"date":"2016-03-02T14:17:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momservations.com\/?p=14085"},"modified":"2016-03-02T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:17:13","slug":"girl-scout-cookie-food-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/02\/girl-scout-cookie-food-pyramid\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Scout Cookie Food Pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Momservation: <\/strong>Your credibility for preaching good nutrition goes out the door when you\u2019re caught raiding the Thin Mints.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">There\u2019re many things I wished were different about myself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That I didn\u2019t love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlscoutcookies.org\/\">Oreos\u00ae, Thin Mints\u00ae<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabiscoworld.com\/ritz\/\">Ritz\u00ae<\/a> crackers so much<\/li>\n<li>That I didn\u2019t crave a good steak, hamburger, or BLT so that I could look cows and pigs at the state fair in the eye<\/li>\n<li>That I believe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiddenvalley.com\/\">Ranch\u00ae <\/a>dressing tastes good on EVERYTHING<\/li>\n<li>That if I had to I could live the rest of my life on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalmills.com\/Brands\/Cereals\/LuckyCharms.aspx\">Lucky Charms <\/a>alone<\/li>\n<li>That I firmly believe raw brownie batter is a gift from Heaven<\/li>\n<li>My inner thighs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These weaknesses in my character make it a daily challenge to set a good example of healthy eating for my children. The thighs are my cross to bear for not loving steamed vegetables, skinless chicken breasts and whole grain rice (I\u2019m sorry, life is too short not to go for the combination pizza dipped in Ranch\u00ae).<\/p>\n<p>What I do do to counteract my vices is regular exercise. I run so I can raid the fridge. I bike so I can binge. I swim so I can snack.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, it\u2019s not all junk in the house. We love our fruit smoothies, turkey burgers, fresh fruit, peas and corn on the side. For the sake of my family I\u2019m making sure that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choosemyplate.gov\/\">food pyramid <\/a>is getting built with the daily servings of fruits, vegetables, grains, proteins, and dairy.<\/p>\n<p>But when Girl Scout cookie season comes around&#8230;Here&#8217;s what our food pyramid looks like:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14087\" src=\"https:\/\/momservations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Girl-scout-cookie-pyramid.jpg\" alt=\"Girl scout cookie pyramid\" width=\"926\" height=\"640\" \/>Here\u2019s my philosophy with Girl Scout cookies: If it\u2019s not there, you can\u2019t eat it. (Plus, then you don\u2019t have to run an extra twenty minutes to get them to let go of your thighs.)<\/p>\n<p>But the ghosts of Girl Scout cookies past haunt me every spring, making me fill the house with tangible, tasty\u00a0reminders of those that have gone before them.<\/p>\n<p>Delightful Do-si-dos. Sweet little Samoas. Trusty Tagalongs. Lovely Lemonades. And of course, my dear friend bought by the case \u2013 Thin Mints.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think it\u2019s my philanthropic tendencies that get the best of me, unable to say \u201cno\u201d to an adorable little girl in uniform just doing her civic duty.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s face it, I\u2019d probably buy them from a mangy, toothless crack addict selling them from the trunk of his car if it meant I would otherwise never see my precious Thin Mints again.<\/p>\n<p>Curse you adorable little girls peddling your cookie crack in front of store fronts all over town!\u00a0Oh well. We\u2019ll eat better next month when the cookies run out.<\/p>\n<p>#GirlScoutCookiesAreCrack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is a mom supposed to set a good nutritional eating example with Girl Scout Cookies around?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[1271,655,2,458,1949,658,86,3,659,462,5,464,28,466,467,662,665,1950,1361,470],"class_list":["post-14085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting-humor-2","tag-best-mom-blogs","tag-do-si-dos","tag-family","tag-food-pyramid","tag-girl-scout-cookie-food-pyramid","tag-girl-scout-cookies","tag-kelli-wheeler","tag-kids","tag-lemonades","tag-lucky-charms","tag-momservations","tag-oreos","tag-parenting-humor","tag-ranch","tag-ritz","tag-samoas","tag-tagalongs","tag-teaching-good-nutrition-to-your-kids","tag-teens","tag-thin-mints"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Girl Scout Cookie Food Pyramid - Kelli M. 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