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And carrots are totally boss! Who doesn't like carrots?
Good advice, though, just saying it doesn't always work =3
I eat salmon in front of my son. He won't touch it, thinks it's gross. But he does eat halibut, tuna, mahi-mahi, clams, crab, etc. The boyfriend doesn't eat tomatoes, I don't eat oranges. But we eat lots of fruits and veg in front of him, and he does too, as a result.
We all hate eggplant.
You have to allow for a kid's actual, legit food preferences—not to be confused with letting your kid eat nothing but pizza and mac-n-cheese—but if you have a varied, healthy diet, so will your kid.
Welcome to the downfall of society ladies, and gentleman.
Hey!
Don't keep that shit in the house!
How tall are you 6ft 6?
You're story actually does illustrate Dan's point, I think.
On the other hand, if you just keep healthy food in the house, eat it yourself, and serve it to your kids at meal times without getting pushy, they will, for the most part, eat it and enjoy it.
Not sure how my story illustrates Dan's point. My parents were extremely active people who made wise choices in their diets for the most part. They encouraged me to make similar choices and presented me with healthy options. It just didn't take.
I say your story illustrates Dan's point because you KNOW what good eating looks like and can aim towards it.
People who don't grow up knowing how to cook, how to shop, or how to read ingredient labels are at a major disadvantage becauee it all seems absolutely foreign.
Life patterns are set early. It doesn't mean change can't happen later but it is really hard to change patterns given to you from birth.
The writer goes on to say that it's doubtful this ad campaign is going to "cause a stampede in the veggie aisle", and I agree, but even if it convinces some kids to swap chips for baby carrots, I'd say that's a good thing.
There didn't used to be a parallel universe of organic convenience foods and cereals like they sell at PCC and Whole Foods. It was just me and my peanut butter and honey sandwich on whole wheat bread sitting there in the lunch room in elementary school while the other kids ate there twinkies and american cheease and balongna sandwiches (yes I'm still bitter ).
If more kids get little bags of carrots in their lunch boxes and the packages look more like lunchables and shit like that, maybe they see that as more normal. I mean lunchables are disgusting. But kids just seem to be magnetically drawn to them.
JL
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weig…
Kids picking vegetables - one in the basket, one in the mouth, one in the basket, one in the mouth. Especially with fresh green beans and sweet, ripe sweet 100 cherry tomatoes.
And I agree with those that say having some sweet things in the house is good for learning moderation and avoiding kids binging on it when they are out of the house. That said, I make a really really awesome carrot cake!
Damn, now I'm hungry.
I can't think of many veggies I won't eat that I've already tried. I even like raw carrots when they're served with a little hummus, and I like them steamed or boiled in soup. I need to be in the mood for mushrooms. Oh and yellow zucchini is WAY better than green zucchini.
Eggplant is great. Ok, maybe not great, it can be a bit slimy, but there's a way or two. Slap some fish paste on it, panfry, and then a dab of oyster sauce.
Oooo, food blog addition: On a large cookie sheet with sides, toss some chick peas and baby bok choy (barely steamed) with olive oil and sea salt, spread on the cookie sheet, roast for 45 minutes or so at 375, stirring if it becomes dry-looking. Num! (Good fall food, now that summer's over...)
It's like putting cheese on you're broccoli, etc..
1) We rarely ate at restaurants/fastfood. As a result, we ate at home a lot more, and Mom could work in the veggies and use less butter and oil to cook every freakin' thing.
2) We never got to eat sugary cereals. As a result, I discovered Lucky Charms in college, but didn't have much of an appetite for them.
3) Instead of fruit-flavored things, we got real fruit. It costs more but as a result, once you've had seasonal, fresh strawberries, strawberry flavored things taste like sugar coated crap.
4) Even though I played, and still play, video games, Mom and Dad made us play outside. As a result, I became obsessed with animals. Now I'm a biologist!
So ...
1. Chop carrots in big chunks, toss in olive oil, salt and pepper, 2. put on a foil lined pan, put in 425 oven for twenty-thirty minutes. 3. More salt and pepper (parsley too if you're a fancy-ass). 4. Devour.
Same basic recipe works with almost all vegetables.
I have absolutely no binge-eating tendencies now, though, nor am I overweight by BMI (indeed, I've always been between the bottom and middle of the "normal" range). Life is, in fact, unfair: I have thinnish parents who like healthy food, and so despite binging on crap for years (to make up for their crazy belief that bread and peanut butter is an adequate snack food for a 10-year-old) I grew up to be a thinnish person who likes healthy food. With high cholesterol, but people on the street can't see that to pass judgment.
@4 - that's because eggplant is disgusting. I've even tried it from restaurants where people assured me they do it amazingly. Nope. Gross.
We didn't eat that great by today's fads—we had a very 1950's midwestern, plaid cookbook diet—but we didn't have a house full of garbage, like so many do, either. Our choices were limited mostly to food at home, and unlike young children today, most kids in my generation didn't have their own spending money until they were old enough to work.
As for the backlash effect of not serving junk food - just serve food. Aim for a basically healthy diet, and just eat it.Today we are having carrots for snack, tomorrow oatmeal cookies, next day hard boiled eggs, next day yogurt, next day oranges, next day pumpkin muffins, next day cheese and crackers. Today we had whole wheat toast and strawberries for breakfast, tomorrow Cheerios and bananas.....
It's not an absolute rule - of course it's possible for kids with healthy parents to end up eating crap, and vice versa. But really - the majority of children aren't going to seek out vegetables while their parents are munching on potato chips and cheeseburgers.
So, I do get where you're coming from, and I do think (of course) parents have a responsibility to teach their children to eat healthy and mindfully. But seeing my parents eat vegetables for my entire life hasn't made me dislike them any less.
What I wanted to say was that I have to agree with those saying it's not always that easy. My mom is a health nut who has enjoyed salad and vegetables in front of me ever since I existed. And my dad's not a health nut, but he loves vegetables and all that rabbit food just as well.
On the other hand, I can't stand green vegetables...and many of the non-green ones as well. (I can't "force myself" to eat them, either, as placing anything in my mouth that has a very bad taste affects my gag reflex immediately.) Then again, I am a supertaster, so there's probably not much she could've done to get me to enjoy that stuff. Plus, her health nuttism and teachings about food did make a lasting impression on me about, if nothing else, how to make good decisions about my diet (even if, for me, those decisions don't involve vegetables). And I do enjoy many types of fruit.
So, I do get where you're coming from, and I do think (of course) parents have a responsibility to teach their children to eat healthy and mindfully. But seeing my parents eat vegetables for my entire life hasn't made me dislike them any less.
I'm going to link to this next time that Paul Constant posts something about how he thinks comic books make kids spontaneously want to read.
pussy.
truth all stingy?
WANT YOUR KID TO BE A BUTTFUCK FAGGOT?
BE A BUTTFUCK FAGGOT YOURSELF, ETC., ETC., ETC.
see how that works?
sure you do.
adoption.
Also, kudos on recognizing that its okay to accommodate legitimate food preferences. Kids are allowed not to like some foods, so long as it doesn't extend to an entire category (e.g., all vegetables).
You mean they get sick of being PARENTS. 90% of the parents I see out there are lazy fuckers, who don't want to cook fresh food for their kids or read to them because goddammit, 'American Idol' is on the box and we can order out dinner!
So you know what, fuck these people; this is white, upper middle class privilege and I love it. We eat organic, whole foods, cook every meal at home fresh, read to our kids constantly, little or no TV: farmer's markets, whole foods, education starting at home. If the poor dumb fuckers who live in this country don't want to emulate us? Well fuck them, they can get minimum wage jobs and die at 50.
What's funny though is Dan Savage wants those of us educated and smart enough to know how to raise our kids right and prevent them from being fat, unhealthy, uneducated fucks, he wants us to pay their health care bills in some kind of collectivist wet dream he keeps having! Well you know what, as long as 70% of healthcare costs in this country are chronic (like the Mexican family I saw at Golden Gardens letting their 3 yr old drink Mountain Dew) I say fuck the collective.
NOTE: The diet of any 18-25 yr old is irrelevant. You will come home to how your parents raised you.