Did anyone catch this?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/136381/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-episode-101
I just got done watching…interesting stuff. I don’t particularly agree with all of Jamie’s ideas/politics, but I respect what he’s trying to do (keep schools on budget, but serve better food; teach people how to cook basic meals).
I also sympathized with his frustration over how much bread/grain the USDA/ADA require to be served to children.
yeah i caught some of it last night. I do like his goal, just plain out make people think about what they are shoving into their mouths. Also what they are serving in schools just highlights to me the importance of continuing to make meals for my daughter for school.
I saw it, too. Watching those children chow down on the pizza and other processed crap made me sick.
I saw his TED talk. I really am happy that this guy is getting some media coverage and getting this out to the public. Hopefully, people will listen and actually start changing their behaviors based on new information.
[quote]dshroy wrote:
yeah i caught some of it last night. I do like his goal, just plain out make people think about what they are shoving into their mouths. Also what they are serving in schools just highlights to me the importance of continuing to make meals for my daughter for school.[/quote]
Absolutely! My kid never went to school with lunch money to buy crap from the caf.
It can be a pain to plan dinner and lunches for 5 days a week, every week, but the payoff is worth it 100 times over. She still likes to eat typical teenager junk sometimes with her friends on weekends, but is always happy to have a lunch and dinner of REAL food at home and at school lunch break.
That lunch lady or “cook” is a bitch.
[quote]dianab wrote:
[quote]dshroy wrote:
yeah i caught some of it last night. I do like his goal, just plain out make people think about what they are shoving into their mouths. Also what they are serving in schools just highlights to me the importance of continuing to make meals for my daughter for school.[/quote]
Absolutely! My kid never went to school with lunch money to buy crap from the caf.
It can be a pain to plan dinner and lunches for 5 days a week, every week, but the payoff is worth it 100 times over. She still likes to eat typical teenager junk sometimes with her friends on weekends, but is always happy to have a lunch and dinner of REAL food at home and at school lunch break.[/quote]
This is so true. My mother always packed me a lunch because she thought what they served was unhealthy. I’m eternally grateful to her for doing not only that, but also taking the time to put together balanced dinners.
The food in my wealthy, upper-middle class (snobbish, cliquish, irritating) school was almost identical to what they served at the school in Huntington, down to the breakfast pizza, chicken nuggets, and potato “pearls.” However, despite that food, we did not have an obesity issue among my class (graduated about 7 years ago)…it didn’t seem to become a widespread problem until recent years. Now I can’t drive past the local elementary school playground without seeing scores of obese children.
I watched it a week or two ago and considered posting it but didnt get around to it. I think he has really good intentions and a lot of what is he says makes sense. It will be difficult but every dedicated person, especially people who are semi famous with legitimate knowledge help a lot.
[quote]dianab wrote:
[quote]dshroy wrote:
yeah i caught some of it last night. I do like his goal, just plain out make people think about what they are shoving into their mouths. Also what they are serving in schools just highlights to me the importance of continuing to make meals for my daughter for school.[/quote]
Absolutely! My kid never went to school with lunch money to buy crap from the caf.
It can be a pain to plan dinner and lunches for 5 days a week, every week, but the payoff is worth it 100 times over. She still likes to eat typical teenager junk sometimes with her friends on weekends, but is always happy to have a lunch and dinner of REAL food at home and at school lunch break.[/quote]
X2
My son came home from high school one day and told me the cafateria monitor tapped him on the shoulder and commented on how healthy his lunches were compared to most of the other kids. Made me feel pretty good about how my wife and I are raising him. Whenever he has friends over they all know they are going to be fed well before they go back home. I learned it from my parents. Meal times were very important, especially to my Dad who grew up in the depresion and had fuck all.
Eating in front of the TV was verboten growing up. Eating at the table with your family was law in our house. The value in this simple act is lost on alot of folks.
[quote]Artemisia wrote:
Did anyone catch this?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/136381/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-episode-101
I just got done watching…interesting stuff. I don’t particularly agree with all of Jamie’s ideas/politics, but I respect what he’s trying to do (keep schools on budget, but serve better food; teach people how to cook basic meals).
I also sympathized with his frustration over how much bread/grain the USDA/ADA require to be served to children.[/quote]
I caught the sneak preview and I was amazed. This country has no clue what god nutrition is. Jaime Oliver does not have all the answers but he exposed many holes in America.
Serving pizza for breakfast just because it meets a grain requirement? Then serving pizza again for lunch? Kids eat like garbage at school and eat like garbage at home. They showed that kid that was 16 and he must of weighed atleast 230 lbs. Come on people!!
Children do not even know what potato look like?
The fact that the whole city does not realize how fat they are and how food can kill them??
My favorite is the old ladies in the lunch room…they are to get paid to re-heat processed garbage. When Jaime suggests actually cooking they looked at him like he had three heads.
I hope he succeeds in his mission because it is really sad that the US is the number one obese nation in the world. It is just insane!
Jamie first did this over here in the UK, it was a big hit and he got A LOT of media attention, and met with the prime minister several times too. It caused quite a stir at the time, he was pretty successful.
[quote]Vir wrote:
Jamie first did this over here in the UK, it was a big hit and he got A LOT of media attention, and met with the prime minister several times too. It caused quite a stir at the time, he was pretty successful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie’s_School_Dinners[/quote]
I remember hearing about that - wasn’t there something with uncooperative parents bringing their kids (and other kids) takeout food and handing it to them over fences?
I wanted to strangle that lip flap ass DJ. What a twat! He seemed to think Jamie made up that their community was loaded with fat asses. I love the premise of the show and hope it takes off, maybe one day we won’t see anymore 400lb 16yr old or I wanna be 1000lb threads.
[quote]Artemisia wrote:
I remember hearing about that - wasn’t there something with uncooperative parents bringing their kids (and other kids) takeout food and handing it to them over fences?[/quote]
Yes, they did bring fast food to the school and sneak it through the fences because they didn’t want their children to be “deprived”.
I’m sure that the same thing would happen here.
[quote]MarvelGirl wrote:
[quote]Artemisia wrote:
I remember hearing about that - wasn’t there something with uncooperative parents bringing their kids (and other kids) takeout food and handing it to them over fences?[/quote]
Yes, they did bring fast food to the school and sneak it through the fences because they didn’t want their children to be “deprived”.
I’m sure that the same thing would happen here.
[/quote]
Mebbe, but you cannot help the kids that are sabotaged by their parents anyway.
If I remember right kids actually stopped going to have school dinners, so instead of being a success it was a failure, less kids eat at school after than before. I cant remember any reports of parents pushing junk food through fencing. I agree that on a whole kids eating habits need to be addressed, but surely that needs to be address at home as well as school. Good luck america.
cheers Spud
[quote]Artemisia wrote:
[quote]Vir wrote:
Jamie first did this over here in the UK, it was a big hit and he got A LOT of media attention, and met with the prime minister several times too. It caused quite a stir at the time, he was pretty successful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie’s_School_Dinners[/quote]
I remember hearing about that - wasn’t there something with uncooperative parents bringing their kids (and other kids) takeout food and handing it to them over fences?[/quote]
Yeh, which also led to a few Borough councils banning take-way establishments within a certain radius of schools. Quite a good idea I thought.
[quote]MarvelGirl wrote:
[quote]Artemisia wrote:
I remember hearing about that - wasn’t there something with uncooperative parents bringing their kids (and other kids) takeout food and handing it to them over fences?[/quote]
Yes, they did bring fast food to the school and sneak it through the fences because they didn’t want their children to be “deprived”.
I’m sure that the same thing would happen here.
[/quote]
Heaven forbid!
“Deprived,” that word - reminds me of my childhood…
My mother rarely let me drink pop when I was a kid - her sister/my aunt said she was “depriving” me. Her son, who is my age, drank pop all of the time (including mixing it with MILK), fast food whenever he wanted…wound up at 360+ pounds as a teen. The guy just finally lost the weight over the past two years, in his twenties. (This was after he moved across the country - when he came home for Christmas? “You’re too skinny!”)
fuck. why does american tv have to be presented in such a dumb ass way? it’s unwatchable.
[quote]AdamC wrote:
fuck. why does american tv have to be presented in such a dumb ass way? it’s unwatchable.[/quote]
It’s called lowest common denominator … it sucks, trust me