Gisele Bundchen feeds her kids berries & tells them that it’s ice cream

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Gisele Bundchen really got through to Tom Brady last week (God, I can’t believe it’s only been a week). After Donald Trump claimed, in the last days of his campaign, that Brady had endorsed him and was going to vote for him, Brady came out and said his wife told him not to say one more word about politics ever again. Brady spoke to a radio show this week and he’s actually sticking to it – he refused to say anything about who he voted for or anything like that. Now, maybe Tom should convince Gisele to stop talking about food and diets? Please? Gisele chatted with People Magazine ahead of the airing of her episode of NatGeo’s Years of Living Dangerously, and she ended up detailing her daily diet, and her kids’ diets.

All of the kids are very active: “Our oldest (Jack), is obsessed with soccer. Benny loves hockey, and the little one, she’s just only 3-and-a-half, so she’s into anything. She actually does yoga! And just running around.”

Her breakfast: Bündchen, 36, begins each day with lukewarm water and lemon, which she follows with a homemade green juice made with “whatever I have in the fridge,” including spinach, kale, celery, cucumber, ginger, turmeric, and an apple, “to make it sweeter.”

What the kids eat: When it comes to the kids, the mother of three switches it up in the kitchen each morning. Ranging from scrambled eggs and gluten-free toast with avocado to coconut yogurt and the occasional gluten-free pancake, Bündchen makes breakfast for her little ones every day. To implement fruits into their diet, she serves the kid-favorite combo acai with berries and banana — and tries to convince them that it’s ice cream!

She doesn’t do caffeine: “I don’t drink coffee. I do like tea though, but at night. A cup of tea before I go to sleep.”

She so natural: “I exercise daily, I drink a lot of water, I eat healthy and we have a very healthy diet at home. I think all of that helps, but it’s also about an attitude and how you take care of your body and if you are nourishing yourself with the foods you eat and the thoughts you have.”

Her family garden: “We use the food from our garden daily. Winter in New England is very cold, so we can’t grow the same amount of food year around. During the growing season, we love our salads made from the spinach, kale, arugula, tomatoes cucumbers, zucchinis, squash and the other delicious things from our garden.”

[From People]

The only part I side-eyed: “Bündchen makes breakfast for her little ones every day.” Yeah, I doubt it. Not because I think Gisele is incapable of cooking, but because Gisele and Tom employ private chefs at, like, every one of their homes. I know Gisele has very strong feelings about what her kids consume, but I just doubt that she’s the one making meals for them every single day. As for “she serves the kid-favorite combo acai with berries and banana — and tries to convince them that it’s ice cream!” It’s not my favorite thing to say or predict, but let’s face it: there’s a very good chance that these kids are going to have very serious food issues in adulthood.

Also: never forget that when Gisele is smugging about her oh-so-natural lifestyle that this is the same woman who wore a burqa to go undercover at her plastic surgeon’s office in Paris. And this isn’t how her face looks naturally.

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  1. Erinn says:

    I think the issue is more that she’s telling them it’s icecream when it’s not. Just tell them it’s dessert or hell, homemade sorbet- frozen bananas and fruit blended up to an icecream consistency IS good. But I mean – when there’s no cream in it, or even milk, why call it icecream?

    • Sixer says:

      It’s actually her assumption that the normal state of affairs is for kids to like ice cream but not like berries, isn’t it? Berries are nice! Why wouldn’t kids like berries? We fight over the last raspberry chez Sixer, whether there’s ice cream about or not.

      This woman has some of the weirdest, most unhealthy attitudes to food that I’ve ever witnessed.

      • woodstock_schulz says:

        This! My son is 5 and he loves fruit, including berries of all kinds

      • Sixer says:

        All she is doing is instilling in their heads that ice cream is nicer than berries. The simple truth is that both are really, really, really nice and one is more healthy than the other so should be eaten in moderation. It’s not rocket science, is it?

      • susanne says:

        Berries are way better than ice cream, especially when eaten off the brambles, scrapes and all. We would bring buckets into the woods, and nothing left but purple mouths and hands. We had to compete with the deer and the kids would chase them. I’ve never seen a mad deer! They snort loudly, stomp, and run away.
        That’s fu^%8ing organic.

        Oh, and don’t lie to kids unless it is absolutely necessary for their well being.

      • Wiffie says:

        @susanne or santa, bahaha. That’s my one lie.

    • Wiffie says:

      I never do that with my kids- tell them something is something else- for 4 reasons.

      1. If they like it, i want them to know that they like fruit and vegetables. I want them to know that stuff they find delicious is healthy, and their internal dialogue isn’t “i love ice cream” when they really love fruit. It’s totally backwards.

      2. You are sending the message that they SHOULDN’T like what they are eating, which is why you had to use deception. Nonchalantly tell them what the bite is. “That’s zucchini. That’s onion. That’s kale.” You give the word meaning, and that poor Brussel sprout doesn’t want all that baggage from your own perceptions on its flavor. Assume your kid will love it, because they’ll look to your reactions as much as their taste buds reactions.

      3. Minor, but i don’t want them to not trust me because half the crap i tell them is deceptive or a lie.

      4. I had enough food issues growing up, and i feel like it’s adding more weight and issue to food than it needs to have. It’s just freaking food.

      • swak says:

        Agree with everything you said. I make zucchini bread and a couple of my grandchildren were like “Eww, zucchini bread!”. Once they tried it they loved it. Lying to your children is never good.

      • Lorelai says:

        ITA with everything you said.

        And #3 – actually not so minor in the scheme of things!

      • ab says:

        yes to all of this! I have no issue with her wanting to give her kids healthy foods (though I do think she’s a little extreme) but she should never lie to them about what they are eating.

      • Bitchy says:

        I think that it is rather dangerous that Giselle instills her unhealthy religious[?] attitude to food into her children.

        If you have a look at how diets are researched then there are so many flaws in the research in that field that you just can’t take dieticians seriously who recommends any kind of limited diet.
        Fact is that humans can survive on a multitude of diets and that has proved to be an advantage as a whole.

    • Wiffie says:

      It also reminds me of the mom i heard at the grocery store tell her kid, “no you won’t like that” when he said he wanted to try this vegetable. I was like wth?? At least let him try it, gag and see. Sometimes they surprise you!

      This is how i discovered my 3 year olds favorite snack was raw bell pepper. I would have never thought she’d like it. But she asked for a bite, i said sure, and i kid you not, she promptly ate the entire pepper. Whoda thunkit?

      • Mel M says:

        My three year old son also loves raw bell peppers but he also dips them in red pepper hummus. At first I think he just liked the crunch sound it made but now he asks for peppers and hummus and carrots and hummus. I love how he asks for it and people are surprised lol. I will always let him try whatever though. I will not lie to him about what it was because then he will have a warped sense of food. Her kids will get old enough to figure out that what they though they were eating this whole time wasn’t really what she was serving them and that does not sound like a good idea at all.

      • sunny says:

        My son goes insane over black coffee, unsweetened iced tea and unsweet mugicha (barley tea). You cannot have it without him getting some. My daughter loves curried potatoes and my baby loves beef liver. I think taste buds must be genetic like everything else because there is nothing I love more than those things…unless it is kimchi and sushi which they all love. Now hoping they will like tripe and squirrel and the other things that may be considered “gross”. They also love hummus and plain yogurt and kefir. when I make a cake they barely even eat it. Kids are weird.

      • Sixer says:

        Sixlet Minor used to save the carrots from his dinner so that he could dip them in his yoghurt or fromage frais dessert!

    • tessthemess says:

      This reminds me of a story my coworker once told me. She had a second job at an elementary school and a really horrific and traumatizing food incident happened at snack time.

      The school keeps records of all of the kids’ reported allergies, but just to be safe they always ask the kids again at snack time. One day, the snack was mini Peanut Butter and jelly sandwiches. This one kid had a huge list of allergies, but peanuts were not on the list… they asked him if he was allowed and he said he ate Peanut Butter “all the time!” So they give him a sandwich and of course his throat starts to close up in minutes. My coworker is completely a mess, thinking this kid might not make it. They call an ambulance and call the mother as well. She berates them for giving him the PB&J and how she was going to sue the school etc etc.

      After everyone had sort of calmed down and the kid was okay, they told the mother that he had said he ate Peanut Butter all the time. Here, she was giving him ALMOND BUTTER and calling it Peanut Butter… so, of course the kid thought it was okay!

      I know we try to make things easier for our kids to eat healthier, but what they don’t know can actually hurt them.

      • emilybyrd says:

        bad move on the mother’s part. why can’t you just tell your kid it’s almond butter, for pete’s sake. if he can stand the taste, he’s not going to suddenly stop eating it because it’s not called peanut butter! i wish parents would stop blaming school teachers and officials for things that can actually be traced back to parental behavior.

      • sunny says:

        I live in the heart of peanut farming country so imagine my shock when peanut butter was banned from school! Uhh there’s a peanut field behind the school for heaven’s sake! We eat boiled peanuts all the time too. I just don’t know how an allergic kid could make it here. But I guess they do. Bless their hearts, it would be awful to not have boiled peanuts or peanut butter in its many forms or additions to other things.

      • jwoolman says:

        That mother was very foolish to not make sure her child knew that peanuts were dangerous for him. She never should have called almond butter “peanut butter”. It’s amazing he wasn’t already dead since peanut allergies tend to be life threatening. It’s a nightmare for parents of kids with allergies since they can’t rely on the person serving the food or on the kid to understand the urgent need to avoid certain foods. But I have never heard of a parent with an allergic child trying to fool the child into thinking he is eating what can actually kill him. Never. How stupid.

    • jwoolman says:

      She didn’t say she was telling them that it was ice cream, but tried to convince them that it was. That means the kids and she know it’s not, but tasty nonetheless. Probably a little family joke.

      If she blends the frozen fruit, it’s a sorbet and many people think of that as a fruity ice cream.

  2. Shambles says:

    That’s just cruel.

    • V4Real says:

      I find I funny. I’m guessing when they’re walking down the street and Gisele’s kids see other kids licking ice cream cones she tells her kids that it’s broccoli.

      She probably tells them that the real broccoli is potato chips.

  3. Grape says:

    I also side eyed that comment, whether it’s true or not – big f-cking deal, as some one who makes 1-3 meals a day for my kids and unfortunately doesn’t employ a private chef. I love it when celebs try the “I’m just like you!” tactic.
    I believe that her kids eat healthy, mine do too, basically, but let’s just say that if i sold them acai as ice cream they’d laugh me out of town, and yes – def serious food issues for those kids down the road.

  4. Annetommy says:

    I’m going to put the bitch in celebitchy by saying she looks like a younger better looking version of Caitlyn Jenner. She seems obsessed with food, probably because she’s spent years severely restricting her intake of it.

  5. Jayna says:

    I believe she makes their breakfast. That’s early in the morning. I doubt they have a live-in chef or ask an employed chef to report to duty just to prepare breakfast at seven or eight a.m. That’s a bit much.

    • swak says:

      I would think a chef’s employment includes all meals – including breakfast no matter what time it is served. I think that would be part of a contract they agree to.

    • Cate says:

      Could also be that the chef leaves a prepared breakfast in the fridge the night before and Gisele is just heating it up/assembling. I could definitely see that going on and it providing her with just enough involvement to claim she “makes” breakfast. In my family, I do most of the cooking on the weekends and then my husband and I alternate who is actually getting dinner onto the table. We will refer to his nights to “make” dinner even though “make” often just means reheating things *I* made on Sunday (don’t worry, he does a TON of the housework so this is not some effort to pander to his ego, just the wording we use).

    • KiddVicious says:

      Yeah, most personal chefs don’t cook all three meals for a family, usually just dinner.

      I have a friend who’s a personal chef, he works for two families. He cooks dinner most week nights but usually not on the weekends for one family. The other family, he cooks on most weekends. Most of the cooking he does out of his own kitchen although these families both have huge gourmet kitchens, he just prefers to use his own stuff. He will use their kitchens if there’s something delicate or doesn’t travel well. It’s an interesting job that pays well doing what he loves, and it’s not a 40 hour a week job. He’s a fitness freak so he spends his mornings surfing, biking, etc, then afternoons shopping and cooking. Nice work if you can get it, assuming one likes to cook.

  6. QQ says:

    She and Goop must be so fun to be around and have over for dinner and whatnot

  7. lucy2 says:

    Shh, Goop 2.0.

  8. Wellsie says:

    Oh G, you give your kids BERRIES? They are all sugar! I feed my kids nothing but organic air soup and tell them it’s pudding. #bestmomever

  9. Lorelai says:

    She sounds super fun to live with.

    Lukewarm water with lemon? Ugh.

    • JulP says:

      I know right? Hot water is apparently too much of an indulgence for her. This is almost as sad as that story about Victoria Beckham eating a plate of plain spinach at Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant (but at least she was able to put salt on the spinach. I doubt Giselle would allow salt on her food).

    • shannon says:

      The lemon water is an ayurveda thing and is pretty soothing. I am just too lazy to do it every day but I do feel better when I do. Try it sometime instead of tea, it’s really good and you can add a little ginger root.

      I don’t think there is anything wrong with the way she eats, it just seems preachy in interviews. I wonder if someone in their family has gluten issues? I do, so I have to eat gluten free and since I’m the one who cooks, a lot of what we eat is gluten free, or I will sometimes make two versions. If my son wants pancakes, he gets gluten pancakes, no big deal. However if someone asked what we ate for breakfast and it happened to be gluten free pancakes, I would simply say “pancakes”. I don’t know why she stresses the gluten free, it’s not like it’s better (unless you have a medical reason to avoid it).

    • BooBooLaRue says:

      she is lukewarm water and lemon personified. Gawk, she made ALL my food issues come up…shuffles off to find a berry pie with real ice cream a la mode.

    • jwoolman says:

      I like cold water with lemon (no sweetener). A recipe for dealing with a bad cough is 8 ounces of warm water, juice and pulp of half a lemon, and some amount of honey. Discovered I wasn’t too fond of it all mixed so I ate the honey separately and switched to cold water for the lemon… But lemon in water really is tasty. Not everybody likes lemonade to be sweet.

  10. Linda says:

    Is that picture of her. Her face is so different. I still think it’s somebody else in that picture. Am going to look again.

  11. Mothercluckers says:

    I thought she didn’t eat nightshades??

  12. sunny says:

    My dad is in open heart surgery as I type this. He is the type that never worried about his diet. But there he is. He told me last night that junk food doesn’t seem so appealing to him now. So personally I applaud Gisele for setting good eating habits early. There is nothing that states that a person HAS to eat junk or they will turn into a food obsessed person with “food issues”. My mother used to tell me that you eat to live, not live to eat and she’s right. If you eat decently you won’t get fat or be unhealthy for the most part (please don’t start with the few exceptions you may know of as they aren’t the rule). If you want to rationalize your love of junk that’s fine. Nobody is trying to stop you from eating or living as you please. But Gisele isn’t wrong or awful for doing what she thinks is best for her kids. And I say this as someone who dislikes her. But she’s right on this. If I had her money I’d be the same way.

    And I’d rather my kids have “food issues” than be fat because, let’s be real. Most fat people also have “food issues” so why not at least attempt good health by being too involved in your food?

    • Wiffie says:

      Quoting you, “And I’d rather my kids have “food issues” than be fat because, let’s be real. Most fat people also have “food issues” so why not at least attempt good health by being too involved in your food?”

      You’d rather your kids be eating disordered than fat, because at least it’s healthier? What in the actual f did i just read?

      • Luna says:

        that is not what she meant and you know it. i agree with her, i would always choose healthy food over let my kids eat anything. anyother way i find it irresponsable

      • sunny says:

        Thanks Luna. It isn’t what I meant and I am glad to see you understood what I was trying to say.

      • jwoolman says:

        The food described as breakfast is not indicative of disordered eating. It sounds pretty tasty. Really, lots of good food is gluten-free. I need variety myself because of something in wheat (not apparently the gluten though). Really, gluten-free eaters are not deprived. And she also is probably feeding them some stuff that she grew up on. Isn’t she from Brazil? Big fruit eaters there. I remember one Disney Channel interlude showing how people eat in different countries, and one of the Brazilians was happily eating a plate of rice and beans with sliced bananas on the side. I hadn’t thought of mixing bananas with something savory, but I tried it in other meals and it really works pretty well. And don’t they have fresh acai available in Brazil?

    • Jennah says:

      I am so sorry about your dad. But the thing is, he might still have gotten that condition even if he ate ‘perfect.’ Paul Ewald is an evolutionary biologist who believes heart disease may be caused by a pathogen, and we just haven’t found it yet. In that case, no diet would have protected him.

      About ‘junk’ food – how about calling it processed food?

      No, there is no law that says you have to eat processed foods, but there is no guarantee avoiding processed foods will keep you healthy or skinny forever.

      Wanting that guarantee – swearing off all kinds of fun and junk foods — was my daughter’s eating disorder.

      She wouldn’t touch gluten, dairy, sugar, salt…was obsessed with paleo or vegan or only eating organic foods for fear that anything else would make her fat, unhealthy, etc.

      A really good place to read about this kind of thing is the Eating Disorder Institute, it gave me a new perspective on what my daughter was going through. I am glad she eats non organic foods, Cheetos, ice cream, because she was so anxious about those foods before.

      Believe me, you don’t want your kids to develop anxiety about good and bad foods, it was hell working through that anxiety.

      i know my perspective is different than many others though.

      I just know that gluten, salt, sugar, dairy all have their place in what we eat and I have seen the havoc calling foods good versus unhealthy can wreak in children.

      Again, so sorry for your stress right now. Sending you hugs.

      • Jennah says:

        I tried to delete my comment because I realized I am not being very sensitive to your plight. This wasn’t the time nor place to share my story, and I am so sorry for that. Please feel free to ignore what I wrote, Sunny.

      • Nameless says:

        Yeah, there was a study on preserved bodies from various pre-industrial time periods. That’s as whole foods as it goes. They all had atherosclerosis. It’s probably a normal part of aging.

        I’m pretty sure I went through a non diagnosed “orthorexia” phase because I have health problems and thought good food could help treat me. (It didn’t.)

      • sunny says:

        Its ok Jennah, I appreciate your opinion and input even if we may not see eye to eye on everything. You are right, I should have said processed food but just used “junk” kind of as a shorthand when it really isn’t the same thing. Believe it or not, my kids do eat fun stuff but my rule is I make it myself. I know not everyone has the time to do that and I am not judging but to me personally store bought stuff tastes rancid. I am sorry about your daughter’s struggles and hope all continues to improve. By the way my dad is out of surgery and doing well…thanks to everyone for their kind wishes. They are much appreciated!

    • Pumpkin Pie says:

      I hope all goes well with your father’s surgery and I also wish him speedy recovery.

      • sunny says:

        Thank you! He is out of surgery and doing well. He is quite active and in otherwise good health so he will hopefully recover well.

  13. Nemera77 says:

    I don’t know. I kind of wish my family had a healthier diet growing up. It sets your foundation. Most people that are obese started when they were young. And parents need to be the first ones to show kids how they should or shouln’t eat. When you get older you can make you own personal choices. But I think most people that had healthy diets as kids don’t have the same serious health issues as those that didn’t. She maybe on the extreme end but it is her family; not mine. She looks great, her husband is in good shape and her kids are not fat.

  14. Margo S. says:

    Well I don’t think the children will have issues with food when they’re older. I know from personal experience with my kids that considering they’ve had a preservative free lifestyle since birth, they literally can’t stomach anything processed. They won’t eat it. Ive tried.

    Because of the way we eat if they ever get sick, it lasts maybe 1-3 days (compared to the usual 7-10 days. I also know how hard it was for me to change my lifestyle years ago. I grew up with a mom who would buy everything pre packaged, canned, frozen, boxed, you name it. I was always bloated and felt like crap. I now feel incredible! No eggs nuts or dairy. And to keep that going you realize that most things have to be made from scratch.

    • Why no eggs, nuts, or dairy??

    • sunny says:

      What do you eat? Is there a site you recommend? I wouldn’t mind easy to make vegetarian and vegan stuff…maybe even crock pot recipes. I likely won’t give up meat but I do want to get off supermarket meat for good. I raise my own chickens and get eggs and like to hunt squirrel and stuff. Would you eat raw farm goat and sheep milk or farm raised lamb/mutton and goat?

  15. Badoosh2678 says:

    I could see how a kid could think acai was ice cream – depending on how it’s made, the texture and flavor is very similar!

  16. Jerkface says:

    Aren’t there pictures of her kids eating ice cream with her?

  17. Gabriela says:

    Guys, actually, acai with banana looks a lot like ice cream, you know. It’s really good and here in Brazil, some people prefer acai to ice cream

  18. Tanakasan says:

    I will always applaud a person who feeds their children real food. If you want to think feeding your kids a certain way can be abusive, it can. Look no further than Mama June. CPS should be called on parents who feed their kids like that.

  19. BTownGirl says:

    This is one of those things where it’s so hard to know how it could affect the children, because we don’t know how she’s presenting it to them. It’s one thing to be like, “This is what we’re eating. Try this, it’s yummy and it’s good for you.” and entirely another to say, “We eat THIS because THAT is bad, bad , bad.”, you know? The way she comes across in interviews, you would think that she’s giving them a 10 minute soliloquy on the dangers of sugar at every meal, but hopefully she’s not. I’m not surprised that she’s talking a lot about this, because the Mom, Inc. industry is a natural fit for her at this point her career. I don’t think she’ll be terribly successful at it if she does decide to go that route, because her approach is too holier-than-thou and she’s kind of a hypocrite *COUGH PARIS COUGH COUGH*.

  20. Sarah says:

    She has a green juice for breakfast? That isn’t a meal!

    • jwoolman says:

      Doesn’t sound bad to me. I make up concoctions like that from frozen fruit and veg blended together with water in a Vitamix which retains all the fiber. It can be a good wake-up drink. Makes you feel pretty alert. Nice in the afternoon as well. I might add protein powder sometimes if I need it, but the fruit and veg in such a blend actually have several grams of protein themselves so that isn’t crucial. (I need to track my food approximately so I actually dump the frozen fruit and veg one at a time into a bowl and weigh them individually, so I’m not guessing.) Some people do best with high protein for breakfast, others do not. Sometimes just fruit is best for me as my first attempt at breakfast, blended or just eaten normally. Blended veg is pretty much in the same category, easy to digest but also loaded with vitamins and minerals.

      There are so many ways to eat. You don’t have to get every food group in at one meal, the body can wait.

  21. KiddVicious says:

    She says she “tries to convince them that it’s ice cream”, not that they believe it’s ice cream. Sounds a bit tongue in cheek to me. One would assume the older kids know what ice cream is and probably eat it at their friend’s houses.

    She sounds very controlling of their lives, but as most parents know, once the kid is out of the house (playing with friends, or whatever) most of that control is out the window and the kids are going to eat whatever their friends are eating.

  22. dana says:

    the headline here is priceless. I love it. Also, good for her and her routine, I’ll never hate another mom for sticking the kids to a strict routine. Let them get to college and decide to break away or not. lol

  23. Sunnydaze says:

    I’m really curious as to what she eats on a daily basis. She must be eating something with substantial caloric content to be working out daily and maintaining her weight…it can’t all be water, greens and berries and an occasional avocado…

  24. tealily says:

    Is this why Tom Brady thinks strawberries are junk food?

  25. Juu says:

    The açaí served in the south of Brazil is just like a sorbet (up north it’s more like a juice). And we tend to call sorbet and ice cream all by the same name anyway (sorvete), so I get what she’s saying.

    Also, my parent raised me and my siblings on a macrobiotic diet for most of our childhoods (then later we just switched to a less radical healthy whole grain diet). It did make a whole lot of a difference in our eating habits as adults. Only my youger sister actually likes soda, we never got a taste for cakes or super creamy sweet desserts, and we barely eat fried stuff. We were never picky over onions, garlic or greens on the plate either. So at the end it’s worth it to stick to good habits from a young age. I am a fanatic for ice cream though, but açaí is more than enough to cut my cravings.

    • Paula says:

      I am Brazilian as well and we NEVER call açaí “icecream” or “sorvete”. Also we know very well the difference between sorbet and icecream (sorvete). You probably live in a different country than I do.

      • Patricia says:

        She didn’t say we call “açai” sorvete, she said we call sorbet and sorvete (ice-cream) the same thing, a sorbet place is an ice-cream place. And I can definitely see how a bowl of açai (brazilian style) can look like ice cream, it doesn’t have cream on it but it tastes like a picole de fruta. We do live in the same country, no need to be cheeky 😉

    • jwoolman says:

      Yes, I don’t understand why some people object to saying “ice cream” if it’s not frozen dairy. I refer to non-dairy frozen concoctions as ice cream without a qualm. It’s based on something other than dairy milk or cream, that’s all. Coconut milk, cashew milk, almond milk, soy milk etc. work fine. Try Ben & Jerry’s non-dairy (almond milk) coffee caramel fudge sometime …. Blended cashews are very rich and can be used in the same recipes as dairy cream easily.

      Sorbet is just frozen blended fruit, that’s probably what she’s giving them basically. But many fruits are delicious straight out of the freezer, especially blueberries, grapes, melon pieces, cherries, sliced bananas, even citrus sections are nice. You can blend them up for an official sorbet, or take the lazy route and just eat them fresh out of the freezer. Sorbet nuggets, so to speak. So she might be doing that also. It’s just the pure fruit, no sugar needs to be added.

      You also can add fruit pieces or berries to a popsicle mold and then add either juice or water, then freeze. Frozen fruit on a stick! You can put a stick in frozen bananas likewise – probably in halves, since if it thaws too much it doesn’t taste as good plain. If you like chocolate, you can encase it in chocolate. Nowadays they’re even selling banana pops like that.

  26. Bitchy says:

    Spinach and kale are acutally healthier if you boil them. 😉 it kills those toxins that the plant produces to disencourage those little animals who eat it.

    • jwoolman says:

      Oh, a little raw spinach won’t hurt… The only cooked spinach I like is if it’s chopped up and put in pea soup. My mother always served spinach as that awful stringy stuff from a can, even worse as creamed spinach. Ugh. Discovered the joys of raw spinach and how it improves pea soup as an adult, Never have been a mature kale fan but baby kale seems ok in very small amounts. They’re strong tasting stuff, a little goes a long way in my opinion.

      One recommendation is to vary the greens you use in green drinks or smoothies, not using the same ones all the time. For instance, follow weekly sales. The theory seems to be that this gives you more variety in the nutrients and also avoids the problems you indicate of any less than terrific parts of the greens. Our bodies know how to deal with toxins in food in reasonable amounts.

  27. my3cents says:

    Dear god, just imagine being a mother to one of her kids friends. Your kid wants to invite the Brady kid over- you shudder thinking what you can/can’t serve them, fearing Gisele, Ugh poor kids, good luck….

    • jwoolman says:

      Unless the kids have allergies, she might not worry about what they eat elsewhere. She just controls what she can, namely what they eat at home.

  28. Xenia Sall says:

    Is it me or does Giselle seem to have an equally disturbed obsession with weight, body, beauty and looks similar to Cindy Crawford. I am asking in all seriousness, because could it be that these ladies have been too much beeb living with superficiality. Because Giselle dies remind me of Crawford who has always very creepily obsessed about her daughter’s body, skin, pores, age etc. Giselle could turn into the next soccer-mom of modeling for her kids I think.