I think the funny part of all of this handwringing is that if you are older than 12 it is pretty likely you know what is good for you and what isn’t.
My wife and I have made all of our food from scratch (except bread) since I retired. If I make cookies, you can be satisfied with 2 of them…not like a sleeve of Oreos. She makes tomato sauce and we cook every meal from ingredients.
We have the time, money, and experience to do this. I can understand why my daughter who has two small children, a full time job, and a deployed husband cannot always do this. But even then, her kids snack on fruit not candy.
I don’t know if this is all an intelligence thing or a laziness thing. But I walk behind people in the grocery store and I cannot believe the crap they are buying.
It is not taught at school and it is not taught in the home and heaven knows it is not taught on any of the media that they consume.
What shocked me was how many of them are kids from nice middle class homes. They grew up with fancy kitchens that were used to heat up take out. Some do not know how to use a coffee maker and I am not talking one of the fancy espresso machines that cost several thousand dollars. I am talking about your basic drip coffee maker.
Parents are not teaching their children the basics. I had to add a class on stocking your medicine cabinet and basic first aid because the idea of keeping burn cream and eye wash on hand never occurred to them. They did know about band-aides but not much beyond that.
But quite frankly, I’m starting to slack off the cultivation. It IS a good bit of work.
It’s getting to be a bit much for me. I’m no longer a spring chicken.