Saturday, June 6, 2015

7QT and every one of them about Food.

1.

On Wednesday, Lucy made her first appearance of the day at nearly 11 o'clock am and informed me that she was leaving for a party at 5. I very matter-of-factly stated that she was making dinner.

She put chili in the slow cooker and baked corn bread from scratch. Boom.



Slow cookers are awesome in the summer.

So is Lucy.


So is this Slow Cooker Revolution Volume 2 that I use at the very least, bi-weekly.

2. Rather than wrap up the St. Jude's school year in some formal way, it just faded out. Still fading. Fading out. Fading out. Just fading out....


We are still watching documentaries and educational programs on Netflix all the time. Can't quit the 'flix.

Some of our favorites include



Ted Talks.



Leap Frog. Math or phonics, it doesn't matter. Jill loves the opposites, the rhyming, the counting, all the things. I only wish there were more Leap Frog shows streaming and Jill wishes there were more Netflix Leap Frog shows with the cute dogs aka Scout and Friends.



Fed Up. More on that coming up.

3.


Edmund and I watched Fed Up on the same day we watched Jamie Oliver's Ted Prize Wish: Teach Every Child About Food. Now, Edmund has sworn off soda and spouts factoids like "More people will die this year from obesity than from starvation." and points out to everyone with a pulse that the nutrition facts on any item with a barcode have a blank space when it comes to % daily value of sugar. Spooky.


Patrick was a little hot about some of the more obvious propaganda points. For example, the movie makes a point of saying that life and health insurance companies invest in Big Food companies. Patrick says that all large companies with 501k programs invest in portfolios and those portfolios will include Big Food, but not because of some nefarious partnership.



On the whole, Fed Up packaged the Sugar Is Bad For Us message along with lots of other new messages about science and diet and exercise, which is great because I was calling this "science class."

For example, exercise is NOT going to help Americans if they consume soda and processed foods. There aren't enough hours in a day to work off those calories. The Calories In, Calories Out message is ripped to shreds.

There are many sad statistics about the health and future of American children.


I had no idea how difficult it is for children to make healthy food choices in a public school setting. Jamie Oliver taught us how public school kitchens do not have cooking equipment. They only have "heating-up-processed-food-equipment."



The partnerships between fast food companies and soda companies and public schools was news to me. Horrifying news. I'm bothered that my daughter's private high school has a soda machine, but public school kids are being given junk food for free?!?



Jamie Oliver is spot on when he says that the problem is education. He wants to educate people on how to cook in their homes. He says every child should graduate "knowing how to make ten dishes that will save their lives."

5.

 Edmund cooks every day. Every single day, he starts off by making a wholesome breakfast from scratch. No cereal here, unless there is some sort of early morning crisis, like we are out of eggs.

6.

Jamie Oliver. Edmund. Both dyslexics who love to cook. I'm working out a brainstorm here. Edmund. Cooking show. YouTube. Teaching kids how to cook dishes that will save their lives.

And I can call it Science!

7. If you were 12 years old and going to make a vlog or series of YouTube videos, what kind of equipment would you need? What kind of program would you use? Asking for a friend.

Linking up with Kelly for Seven Quick Takes Friday, late per usual.

8 comments:

  1. that would be awesome for Edmund!! Chef Patrick can take him around to some of the farms he gets meat and dairy. The possibilities are endless!!!

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  2. Oh yeah, Fed Up totally counts as science. If nothing else, it helps kids to make better life choices and make more informed decisions in current situations.

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  3. We love Netflix documentaries and Leap Frog too! Of course our documentaries are of the BBC Animal SpyCam variety but I can get away with that since preschool doesn't require much more than that from science class.

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  4. Do it! A kitchen and a winning smile, I think you have both with him!

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  5. Is that Jamie Oliver show on netflix? (I'll check!) I want to cook more for financial reasons as well as health reasons but I love that processed food! I've been working on this since my oldest was born 4 years ago...

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  6. Love the idea of a YouTube cooking show for kids! Healthy foods and kids cooking for themselves? Win-win!

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  7. We have been eerily on the same wavelength... My husband and I were just discussing the irony that childhood health and obesity being what it is, cooking hasn't been made a core class in the school system. Our girls, even the little ones, all enjoy cooking and learning about food, for the summer (at least) we're doing "Kiddie Culinary School," in which each week we'll tackle a new ingredient/dish, and then study the science/history/gastronomy of said ingredient--and then learn classic dishes and techniques using that ingredient. We thought it would be a cool YouTube series...but I definitely don't have the time energy for that right now! You should totally do it.

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  8. I love this! My (newly) 12 year old son makes his breakfast every morning too...no cereal here either. We'd love to follow Edmund's YouTube channel when he starts.

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Saturday, June 6, 2015

7QT and every one of them about Food.

1.

On Wednesday, Lucy made her first appearance of the day at nearly 11 o'clock am and informed me that she was leaving for a party at 5. I very matter-of-factly stated that she was making dinner.

She put chili in the slow cooker and baked corn bread from scratch. Boom.



Slow cookers are awesome in the summer.

So is Lucy.


So is this Slow Cooker Revolution Volume 2 that I use at the very least, bi-weekly.

2. Rather than wrap up the St. Jude's school year in some formal way, it just faded out. Still fading. Fading out. Fading out. Just fading out....


We are still watching documentaries and educational programs on Netflix all the time. Can't quit the 'flix.

Some of our favorites include



Ted Talks.



Leap Frog. Math or phonics, it doesn't matter. Jill loves the opposites, the rhyming, the counting, all the things. I only wish there were more Leap Frog shows streaming and Jill wishes there were more Netflix Leap Frog shows with the cute dogs aka Scout and Friends.



Fed Up. More on that coming up.

3.


Edmund and I watched Fed Up on the same day we watched Jamie Oliver's Ted Prize Wish: Teach Every Child About Food. Now, Edmund has sworn off soda and spouts factoids like "More people will die this year from obesity than from starvation." and points out to everyone with a pulse that the nutrition facts on any item with a barcode have a blank space when it comes to % daily value of sugar. Spooky.


Patrick was a little hot about some of the more obvious propaganda points. For example, the movie makes a point of saying that life and health insurance companies invest in Big Food companies. Patrick says that all large companies with 501k programs invest in portfolios and those portfolios will include Big Food, but not because of some nefarious partnership.



On the whole, Fed Up packaged the Sugar Is Bad For Us message along with lots of other new messages about science and diet and exercise, which is great because I was calling this "science class."

For example, exercise is NOT going to help Americans if they consume soda and processed foods. There aren't enough hours in a day to work off those calories. The Calories In, Calories Out message is ripped to shreds.

There are many sad statistics about the health and future of American children.


I had no idea how difficult it is for children to make healthy food choices in a public school setting. Jamie Oliver taught us how public school kitchens do not have cooking equipment. They only have "heating-up-processed-food-equipment."



The partnerships between fast food companies and soda companies and public schools was news to me. Horrifying news. I'm bothered that my daughter's private high school has a soda machine, but public school kids are being given junk food for free?!?



Jamie Oliver is spot on when he says that the problem is education. He wants to educate people on how to cook in their homes. He says every child should graduate "knowing how to make ten dishes that will save their lives."

5.

 Edmund cooks every day. Every single day, he starts off by making a wholesome breakfast from scratch. No cereal here, unless there is some sort of early morning crisis, like we are out of eggs.

6.

Jamie Oliver. Edmund. Both dyslexics who love to cook. I'm working out a brainstorm here. Edmund. Cooking show. YouTube. Teaching kids how to cook dishes that will save their lives.

And I can call it Science!

7. If you were 12 years old and going to make a vlog or series of YouTube videos, what kind of equipment would you need? What kind of program would you use? Asking for a friend.

Linking up with Kelly for Seven Quick Takes Friday, late per usual.

8 comments:

  1. that would be awesome for Edmund!! Chef Patrick can take him around to some of the farms he gets meat and dairy. The possibilities are endless!!!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Oh yeah, Fed Up totally counts as science. If nothing else, it helps kids to make better life choices and make more informed decisions in current situations.

    ReplyDelete
  3. We love Netflix documentaries and Leap Frog too! Of course our documentaries are of the BBC Animal SpyCam variety but I can get away with that since preschool doesn't require much more than that from science class.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Do it! A kitchen and a winning smile, I think you have both with him!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Is that Jamie Oliver show on netflix? (I'll check!) I want to cook more for financial reasons as well as health reasons but I love that processed food! I've been working on this since my oldest was born 4 years ago...

    ReplyDelete
  6. Love the idea of a YouTube cooking show for kids! Healthy foods and kids cooking for themselves? Win-win!

    ReplyDelete
  7. We have been eerily on the same wavelength... My husband and I were just discussing the irony that childhood health and obesity being what it is, cooking hasn't been made a core class in the school system. Our girls, even the little ones, all enjoy cooking and learning about food, for the summer (at least) we're doing "Kiddie Culinary School," in which each week we'll tackle a new ingredient/dish, and then study the science/history/gastronomy of said ingredient--and then learn classic dishes and techniques using that ingredient. We thought it would be a cool YouTube series...but I definitely don't have the time energy for that right now! You should totally do it.

    ReplyDelete
  8. I love this! My (newly) 12 year old son makes his breakfast every morning too...no cereal here either. We'd love to follow Edmund's YouTube channel when he starts.

    ReplyDelete