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| Alee |
Posted - May 30 2007 : 8:05:36 PM
I have seen this program before, but each time I watch it, it gives me the willies! I am watching the segment right now about the school lunches. Those school lunches are not like the ones we had when I was in School! There wasn't an option about what the school served until High School. I really hope that when Nora goes to school there aren't those nasty choices like in the show. I plan on making bag lunches for her, but I also know that kids usually want to eat everything BUT what they bring from home, no matter how wonderful the homemade stuff is. *Sigh* No wonder kids have a hard time concentrating in school with all that junk in their systems!
Alee |
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Jun 01 2007 : 3:20:02 PM
While I love our school here, I really am displeased with the lunch options. My daughter calls their burritos "cat food burritos" and refuses to eat anything there that is supposed to be hamburger. I don't have any idea where they get their meat, but it doesn't even LOOK like my hamburger. There is no salad bar and they seldom get fresh fruit. It's almost always from a can. Since she started high school, she either takes her lunch or comes home for lunch. One of the luxuries of living in a small town. She can walk home, make lunch, eat and get back to school on time. Many of the kids go to one of our mom & pop "fast food" places rather than eat in the cafeteria. Their options aren't much better with burgers, fries, deep fried burritos, chicken and fish. But many do opt for the wonderful salads and home-made specials that are offered. I wish I could change what our school offers our kids. But it seems lack of money is always their problem for any positive change.
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 01 2007 : 12:54:36 PM
MaryBeth- Bless you for making healthy lunches for all those young kids! The school system I grew up in had great lunches in all schools, but once you got to high school there was a snack counter option as well. No vending machines except for sodas and sports drinks. I know all our lunch ladies really cared about the kids and worked hard to make nutritious lunches from what they had. I think it is worse in the school systems that are accepting money from companies like Coke. It seems when school systems do that, the plates suddenly get filled with junk. I think the tide is turning again though! More places are starting to ban junk food in schools which I think is a brilliant idea!
Alee |
| horse |
Posted - Jun 01 2007 : 12:27:35 PM
Hate to gross you all out. When I was married the first time, we had a dariy barn, where we milked over 300 head a day. If you could have seen some of the cattle I would take to this one slaughter house(will not mention who bought their meat from there, goldenarches) you would have a fit. I will not eat at a fast food chain. Sorry, seen what goes into the slaughter houses and don't want to think what comes out. I prefer buying from people I know.
Laura
www.2lmzfarms.blogspot.com |
| Annab |
Posted - Jun 01 2007 : 05:31:14 AM
I'm also pleased to observe these days how many salad options are offered at the burger chains. Some are pretty tasty! |
| Annab |
Posted - Jun 01 2007 : 05:29:55 AM
Yea, each year we go in 4 ways and split a cow with 3 other families. So we know the farm, the farmer, and just the ONE animal our meat comes from.
You CAN tell a difference! |
| Marybeth |
Posted - May 31 2007 : 10:36:18 PM
I kinda take offense when I hear about the horrendous lunch food . I was a lunch lady for 18 years and I sure saw lots of changes and most of them in my school district were for the better. I always had fresh fruit and veggies on a self serve table plus a salad bar. Kids always had several choices plus milk. I even made my own pizza. Our school didnot allow any vending machines nor did we sell candy. I was always proud of 'my' kitchen. This was elementary not higher and I do know that food choices change in the upper grades. I understand what you all are talking about because I do feel the same way specially about fast food. We have a slow food movement out here and one small community has a slow food potluck every few monthes. If you can't grow it yourself, please buy local and if possible buy organic. MaryBeth
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| Alee |
Posted - May 31 2007 : 8:07:32 PM
LaLuna- You are right- It was SuperSize Me- My digital cable had it listed as "Fast Food Nation" so it tripped me up! Thanks for catching that for me!
Alee |
| Rebekka Mae |
Posted - May 31 2007 : 7:56:57 PM
Alee- a farmgirl canning party sounds perfect!
R
Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it!
Clarissa Pinkola Estes |
| laluna |
Posted - May 31 2007 : 2:25:44 PM
I just wanted to mention that I believe you're talking about the film "Supersize Me" by documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (NOT M.Moore). There *is* a book titled Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser which *was* recently made into a pseudo-fictionalized version of the book, but your description sounds more like SuperSize Me (though I could be completely wrong here since I haven't seen the movie version of FFN).
Okay, sorry about that, I think it's the English teacher in me ;-)
And to the topic at hand...I teach in the public school system and most cafeterias I've been in offer the most horrendous food choices! Thankfully, the vast majority of the middle school students I teach are equally repulsed by what the school offers them and they bring their own. Unfortunately, those lunches also don't often contain the best/healthiest items either! (The other teachers on my "team" and I tried implementing a "Healthy Challenges" program to our kids, and while it did help with their initial awareness, participation in general fell off after a while. *sigh* Must be the age group ;-) |
| Alee |
Posted - May 31 2007 : 1:59:02 PM
Rebekka-
We are going to have to learn to can together! Maybe we could have farmgirl canning parties?
Alee |
| Carolinagirl |
Posted - May 31 2007 : 09:20:14 AM
That's what we figured- we could pay the lump sum up front, get what we want, and then end up cheaper than at the store. Right now I pay $1.88 on the cheap side for ground beef, and amost $3 on the expensive side... depending on time of year. I'd love to find someone to process chicken and pork chops as well. Chicken I can still get pretty cheap, but pork chops run me almost $5 a pound (so we don't get them often, only on sale). *s*
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| juliet79 |
Posted - May 31 2007 : 08:58:25 AM
We bought a steer and split it between my parents and our family. To buy it and have it processed was about 1400 dollars total. But when you add up what you pay for at the store, it is about a dollar a pound cheaper, and it's there, you don't have to worry! I love it because you know exactly what you are getting, they wrap in in the pounds you want. i.e. three pound roasts, five pound roasts, ground one, two, or five pounds, etc. You also get to pick how you want the steaks, one inch thick, etc. I love it! Plus, the taste is so much better.
We let our beef hang for 14 days for flavor, so you will need to specify how you want it done. Our processor had to add some fat into the beef because it was so lean! Great! Good luck! |
| Carolinagirl |
Posted - May 31 2007 : 07:33:21 AM
Jenny- we've been thinking about getting a 1/2 beef and having it cut into what we want. What do you get out of that much cow? Most of what we eat is ground beef and braised cube beef pieces. How about cubed steak (I do a lot of that in the crockpot)? What's the general cost for that (I know, it will be based on where you're at and the price of beef, but can you give me a general idea?)?
Thanks-
Kim in NC |
| Mountain Girl |
Posted - May 31 2007 : 06:39:01 AM
We've started grinding our own hamburger. I have my mom's old meat grinder. This way you know your hamburger comes from just one cow. JoAnn |
| ArmyWifey |
Posted - May 31 2007 : 06:36:30 AM
While I don't care for Michael Moore or his ilk I do think that we have a serious problem on our hands with food.
Isn't it interesting (in my book) that the devil takes the very things God means for good and twists them so?!
I'm hoping to find several local sources here in KS once we are settled better and to have a garden, chickens and goats!
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - May 30 2007 : 10:10:14 PM
You would love it Rebekka!! Such fun and it is the best feeling to have all those jars lined up just waiting!!
I buy our beef from a local butcher who raises his own to sell...and get 1/2 beef for the freezer each fall. I KNOW where it comes from and that is such a better feeling. It turns my stomach too to think of where the fast food burgers come from..ugh
Jenny in Utah
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| Rebekka Mae |
Posted - May 30 2007 : 9:57:08 PM
Jenny-
I never thought about the burger being from many different cows! How gross, then again anything but local free range meat makes my stomach turn and I can't prepare raw meat at all....
Good thing hubby is happy eating vegi's or grilling his own;) Then again he is a firefighter so when he works they eat alot of meat and it tides him over. I agree that homemade and simple are the way to go- I was looking through your blog today and I saw all the jars you had put up and I am in awe. My gramma used to can and I remember how pulling things out all winter was like getting a present. I especially liked how her pickled asparagus looked in the jar. Guess I will have to learn how to can this summer;)
Rebekka
Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it!
Clarissa Pinkola Estes |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - May 30 2007 : 9:08:06 PM
I make bag lunches for my kids most of the time..even though we are lucky enough to have good school cafeterias here. My older kids never had school lunch at all until high school and then when they did they would pick things like salads cuz they didn't trust the other mystery stuff.
I quit eating hamburgers that were from fast food places after seening Fast food nation. The thought that it could have burger from so many different cows mixed together from all sorts of places grossed me out bad. Homemade and simple is always better.
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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