we get WIC too. Last time with DS I gave the baby cereal to my SIL who has a home daycare.<br>
I had them max us out on cheese but I think I will switch back to a little more cow's milk and give more to my mom and dad cause we're overloaded on cheese. Sometimes I cut up the cheese, buy a box of crackers, and bring it to LLL meetings as a snack contribution, <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol"><br><br>
next time I'm supposed to be getting some tomato juice instead of all the fruit juice, we come nowhere near consuming all that and I use t-juice for cooking sometimes. I am also going to see if they will change my jar of PB to another bag o beans as we can't buy non hydrogenated PB.<br>
We use the beans all the time, it's the one *healthy* thing they give, since I learned how to do them overnight in the crockpot. I buy black beans and chickpeas every month, I think we get 2 bags?<br><br>
The great thing is we get goat's milk for DS, which is so expensive there's no other way we could afford it. And I get a free pump to use while I'm working, so DD has been able to have nothing but breastmilk. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/orngbiggrin.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="orange big grin"><br>
There are no TV's and no nursing rooms at the office here. They don't care where you bf. I always get asked if I still am though.<br><br>
2 rants--first being the way they ask if I'm 'still' nursing--for God's sake she is THREE MONTHS OLD not 3 years or something! from what I overhear though it is sadly a valid question. Also, the last time I was there, the woman asked me if I was trying to lose weight. I said, well, not really, I didn't think you were supposed to diet while nursing. She goes "well, there *is* a safe way to do it..." and I go "well, I'm just trying to eat healthy, avoid junk, and keep breastfeeding" and she goes OK...I think she at least did mention something along the lines of bf'ing helping.<br>
I'm not *that* overweight--I weigh probably 15 pounds more than I did before I got pregnant, which I think I did then too, and that was last month. Who the he** has actually lost all the weight when their babe is two months old anyway?!<br><br>
And my second rant is on the juice. yeah, why DO they give all that juice? my last appt. was me and DS, the lady who saw him handed me a pamphlet with info regarding feeding your toddler, then writes on the back and cautions me not to give him more than 11 ounces of juice a day. I'm mentally going "11 ounces?! I just told you he has maybe 3 oz at a time and not even daily--along with going dang *I* don't drink 11 oz a day and I'm what 4 times his size?"<br>
It gets better--I get home and actually read the pamphlet, and *IT* says not to give your child more than 4 to 6 oz of juice a day!!!!!!!<br>
(now I'll give a little praise, I did like the pamphlet's easy guide to serving sizes, it has helped me chill and realize DS doesn't need as much as *I* sometimes think to be getting what he needs)<br><br>
but yeah even some canned pineapple or something would be better than all that dang juice, I have been tempted to ask why they don't give say a can or two of fruit a month, with the requirement that it be canned in juice not syrup. I find it hilarious that all over their office they have signs and articles talking about childhood obesity and cautioning parents not to give too much juice and then they give me enough concentrate for at least 9 half gallon pitchers a month. DH and I drink it too and I STILL have a stockpile in my freezer! (of course fresh fruit would be even better but I figure since it's probably a $ allotment and it's hard to get exactly a pound or whatever, it'd be easier for them to do cans. They could specify just like they do with the brands of cereal and forbid the syrupy fruit. I occasionally buy cans to have around for when we don't get to the store to get more fresh.)<br><br>
Where do you guys live who are getting farmer's market vouchers? How do they do that? We have a market here in town and we don't get vouchers...I'd LOVE that...
