Posted on 10/05/2006 11:05:12 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
Of course I was a picky eater. I say it was because my parents didn't know how to cook. I still can't stand canned vegtables.
You are better off without the canned vegetables, preservatives (including sodium), and water that has the nutrients.
Thank you so much for posting a positive article about education. FReepers will find some reason to say this is bad, wrong, horrible or abusive.
I loved vegetables as a kid, as long as they were raw or lightly cooked. Chinese food was good, as they knew how to cook vegetables without turning them into mush. I still prefer veggies cooked just enough to make them tender. Canned veggies? Yuck! Frozen are OK, though.
Not recipes this time, but a good article about children growing their own veggies to encourage them to eat them.
Why do you have to cook perfectly good veggies?
Not this FReeper! This is exactly what school should be about.
You have no idea how much I despised green beans as a kid. As an adult I made fresh green beans. They are my favorite vegetable. It is so cute how my six year old will come back for seconds and get disappointed if their aren't green beans. I really should grow some.
If there were more hands-on projects like this, kids wouldn't be so bored. The projects I remember most were growing things or making a habitat.
We grew all our vegetables when I was growing up. They were often the best part of the meal....my Mom could make the best squash & onions, and her pan fried okra was to die for!
Everytime I see a kid who'll only eat chicken fingers and fries, I look at what the parents are eating---- chicken fingers and fries.
Canned green beans are just plain nasty. We always bought fresh green and yellow beans in season, and later my father grew green and yellow beans, and sugar snap peas (about 20 years before I ever saw them available commerically). There was another vegetable he grew, I think it's called kohlrabi, which is a turnip-like vegetable that I actually like. I don't like cooked turnip, squash or sweet potatoes to this day. Raw turnip is good, though.
No doubt her experiences were shaped by the Great Depression.
Mmmm! I suddenly have an urge to pull out the bushes in front of my boys' bedroom window and expand my garden. It seems the planters in front of my house are the only places I can get things to grow. I have some herbs right now (basil, onion, and cilantro) and peas. I have one more section that I might be able to fit lettuce and spinach into. But, I want to grow more. While everyone else harvests, this is one of the best times to plant in Arizona. Things aren't going to fry to a crisp.
Note! the vegetables are strictly ornamental.
All that "organic" crap is contaminated with all kinds of nasty third world bacteria.
I'll take mine picked, packed and canned by robots, thank you.
I had a first grade teacher (late '70s) who did this. I did not eat my potatoes and green beans, so she made me sit there until I was done. I missed recess and half of the next class. She claimed my dad said I "loved" these things. Years later I found out my dad never said any such thing. My husband says he has never known anyone to carry a grudge as long as I have carried this one against that teacher.
Yeah,
between now and April/May are the best gardening times here. Things won't die from the heat.
Even my eggplants that struggled all summer to stay alive are now producing.
Anyhow, I have 'kitchen' garden off the kitchen steps with my herbs and things like eggplant etc. Hopefully, next year I can get more things to survive.
What is the best (and easiest) way to cook green beans so they stay crisp?
We like canned, we like fresh, we like frozen.
I ate veggies growing up, and my kids (and hubby) eat them also. They have no choice , not that they really try not to anyway. I never made a big deal, and since we eat them and don't make faces etc., they just consider it part of the meal.
I grew up w/ 3 older brothers, and we were on the poor side, so when the food went on the table, you were hungry and you ate, no matter what it was.
Lots of canned veggies etc also growing up. And worked in the garden weeding and such every Saturday morning, after breakfast and before cartoons. And onions in the pantyhose, lol, hanging under the house.
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