tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603202988847584283.post1546575285380719722..comments2023-10-22T09:24:14.464-04:00Comments on The Slow Cook: Teaching Kids About FoodEd Bruskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12217850970833353800noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603202988847584283.post-85712496422757077662009-08-30T10:00:32.002-04:002009-08-30T10:00:32.002-04:00Never before in human history has so much food bee...Never before in human history has so much food been available so cheaply all the time.kids survive on that....Developing a healthy attitude to eating in childhood depends on many different factors.Its sometime hard to understand labels and claims made by the advertisers but what I personally came to know is that nutrients are stripped away to make white flour.These nutrients are very important for a better health and we live in a unique time when most of our diet constitutes processed foods.We must be a model for the kids if we really want to develop good eating habits in them.Its nothing but a small decision we make for a lifetime. Find more on http://www.habitchanger.com/paulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17693618422211517106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603202988847584283.post-79342585715481731292007-09-18T13:02:00.000-04:002007-09-18T13:02:00.000-04:00Exactly, Charlotte--even more difficult than deali...Exactly, Charlotte--even more difficult than dealing with the kids is changing our own behavior. Mea culpaEd Bruskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12217850970833353800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603202988847584283.post-74633617423039120692007-09-18T06:19:00.000-04:002007-09-18T06:19:00.000-04:00This is such a difficult subject. There is no one ...This is such a difficult subject. There is no one way of remedying it. Children take so much time to change. And politicians want quick fixes. It has to be an holistic approach: good food at school. leading by example in school, support to teach families to cook on a budget, teaching children to taste and cook. <BR/>The one thing I have learnt in our challenge is that I have had to change as much as Freddie. I have had to change the way I shop, cook, the example I set etc - and all this at a very steady but slow pace. It is hard work. I really found your piece interesting. It is great that there are people like you working with children to help in that long process of change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603202988847584283.post-69745455962334656212007-09-14T09:44:00.000-04:002007-09-14T09:44:00.000-04:00Joanna, we definitely are swimming against the tid...Joanna, we definitely are swimming against the tide. Not only are heavily processed foods too easy, they are usually cheaper. Ironically, our government subsidizes many of the ingredients that go into those processed foods, so there's blame to go around for everyone. Keep trying...<BR/><BR/>Sunny, where is that adults pick up these horrible habits. Probably as kids. So it's a viscious cycle and takes a lot of work to break it. But you'd think adults would be more conscious and more easily convinced to make the necessary changes. Just keep spreading the word.Ed Bruskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12217850970833353800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603202988847584283.post-29369617371848605202007-09-13T15:59:00.000-04:002007-09-13T15:59:00.000-04:00Great post. It's so difficult. We want children ...Great post. It's so difficult. We want children to be "healthy" but we seem unaware of how our actions affect them. I personally don't have children but I am trying to change my habits, which is difficult because my husband could care less. My cousin told me one day that kids don't like wheat bread. I bit my tongue but thought no your kids don't like wheat bread because you don't eat it and provide them with that white notebook paper that should never be called "bread" in the first place! Aw-well. They are her children and not mine.Fresh and Feistyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05820234357609699762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603202988847584283.post-4580365587576286922007-09-13T13:56:00.000-04:002007-09-13T13:56:00.000-04:00This is reallly good work ... but thankless, too, ...This is reallly good work ... but thankless, too, because you are always up against the food processing industry - and if you don't read the label every single time you buy one of their products, you don't have any idea what junk you are eating. I only fully realised this after my husband's heart attack, and we wanted to cut down saturated fats and salt - shouldn't that be easy? I am really interested that the children didn't notice the switch to healthy yoghurt ...<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work<BR/><BR/>Joanna<BR/>joannasfood.blogspot.comJoannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06790888857849562408noreply@blogger.com