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Vignette of the Week: Eating Like....
This really struck a cord with me...
Vignette of the Week
Eating Like Our Parents Left for the Weekend by Will Allen
"If these kids can't afford to go to Biggest Losers to change their lives, they are probably reduced to eating bad burgers, on bad bread, with fries and a coke. Seeing their beauty, and their diminished hopes, and viewing the fat swollen cage they find themselves in it makes me feel desperate. They are young folks stuck with nearly useless bodies, chronically sore knees and hips, aching feet, a puzzling future, a dicey surgical hope, and always-hungry stomachs filled with *** food."
"The plight of the young couple reminds me of a Roseanne segment from the TV show. Her husband had just returned from the market and they were unloading the bags. After a few minutes of pulling cookies, potato chips, cokes, candy, ice cream, more cookies, and a cake out of the bags, she ranted, as only Roseanne could: "You know, at some point we need to grow up and stop eating like our parents just left for the weekend." That segment really struck me. We are a nation that eats like its parents just left for the weekend!"
Re: Vignette of the Week: Eating Like....
That picture grossed me out a little.
One more thing I am thankful to my mommy for! Despite being a single-mom, working full-time and going to school, she never fed me fast food.
I really don't know how we can make many changes, at least, in a reasonable time period, unless people start feeding their kids differently. I think how you learn to eat growing up stays with you for life.
I think that people of all ages need to be re-educated in food honestly. I think some people don't realize how inexpensively and quickly you can cook a healthy dinner.
I don't have any solutions, really, but I definitely think its a problem, and something that needs to be fixed fast. I feel bad for the kids, because I don't think it's their fault that they don't eat healthy.
My parents took me out to eat all the time when I was little. Thank god my sister and I were active and had high metabolisms. Now fast food is a once a week break on nights that I don't have time. In my opinion, grocery stores and local farmers markets should offer inexpensive cooking classes to people like me who never learned out to cook.
I think people now are always go go go and don't stop to think about how enjoyable something like cooking can be. Or reading or playing games or other activities that don't need to be plugged in.