Posted on 11/28/2008 12:59:15 PM PST by nateriver
Confused? Various local governments have declared obesity a crisis, fast food chains are being sued, school lunches are now abstaining from all fried foods, But last week the USDA release their report stating more children are hungry than before the downturn. Who is responsible for the food that these poor, hungry, obese children are given? Surely not Heather Mills.
This is so 1985.
My solution.... run the public schools system like basic training, hey they don’t want you to raise your kids yourselves, right?
Now you know how we can have impoverished obese kids. Too bad we continue to pretend that we can and should protect people from their own bad decisions.
This is a no-brainer to anyone with kids in the U.S. See, if you put a healthy meal, like the Noodle Dish with Chickpeas or the Lentils and Brussels Sprouts, in front of kids, they’ll say, “I don’t like this!” and leave. Then they’re *hungry* until you offer Frosted Shredded Wheat for breakfast.
There aren’t any commercials showing cool kids eating lentils and brussels sprouts.
That’s because you’d have to pay them way over union scale to get them to do it :-). I like it, though.
The thing is, except for children whose parents are full-time drunk or drugged out or on the streets, children just aren’t hungry in any meaningful sense, unless they’re anorexic girls or 14-year-old boys training for a marathon - who still won’t eat the Lentil Dish, because there’s other food available.
And for the children who truly are hungry, it’s hard for the community to provide them with really nutritious meals, “whole foods,” because we have to contribute foods that are nonperishable and can be eaten by children with minimal preparation. At least Pop-Tarts are vitamin-fortified, so they won’t get scurvy if they eat them.
Nobody liked Curried Lentils With Brussels Sprouts except me. I guess I won’t make it again for a while.
Who did you have for dinner? Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mahatma Ghandi?
Just my family. See, nobody’s really hungry, or they’d be happy to eat tasty and nutritious food.
I’ll go along with the nutritious part anyway.
I like curried lentils. I like Brussels sprouts.
The thought of the two of them in the same dish however, makes me shutter.
Husband would probable like it though. He likes everything.
Thaw a bag of frozen ones, then fry them in olive oil, with just a dab of minced garlic.
My employer provides dry soup packets, crackers, and peanut butter (which I hate), for when we're in crisis mode and can't leave for food. I can tell when I'm really hungry because the peanut butter starts to look, never GOOD, but not-so-bad-really.
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