Comments on: Speaking of Kids and Food

By: yogamum

yogamum — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:41:37 +0000

No, Betty Lou, it wasn’t, but that sounds interesting!

By: Betty Lou

Betty Lou — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:00:51 +0000

Was this the show regarding a school lunch director who started using tofu in the school lunch program? I’m trying to find the recorded program where they discussed this.

By: (un)relaxeddad

(un)relaxeddad — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:30:48 +0000

I always thought this was pretty much a proven link and was quite surprised by the coverage. Possibly the study in question was just too definitive for even the food industry bodies to spin. Of course, the UK government’s ducked out of actually doing anything…

By: Vilash Reddy

Vilash Reddy — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:36:52 +0000

Its pretty interesting how different certain “junk” food can be. I love the munch on small items, but I prefer eating the healthier alternatives such as Pirate’s Booty. I am actually kind of sad that in Houston they don’t have any Trader’s Joe. I use to love their junk food because it was less processed and contained ingredients that were better in nutritional content. I mean something we need to stray from eating only fruits and vegetables. Our mind and body need temporary fixes. =) But I always believe that you have to maintain a well balance diet for your body’s wellbeing.

By: mathmom

mathmom — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:49:02 +0000

justmakingitup — you forgot to factor in what the school allows them to bring, which I know is a factor for you (for us too, but for a different reason — nut allergies).

I’m not so keen on the great-great-grandmother rule since I like a lot of ethnic foods my great-great-grandmother certainly would not recognize (though hopefully someone else’s great-great-grandmother would). So, it’s interesting to think about whether there is likely some genetic influence that makes it better for me to eat what *my* great-great-grandmothers ate, or is it ok to eat anything *anyone’s* great-great-grandmother might recognize.

We’ve gotten more and more lenient about the junk food lately. I’ll admit I even picked up a bag of assorted bags of chips/doritos/etc. when they were on sale last week for lunch box “emergencies”. And in the winter, when fresh fruit gets pretty boring, we start relying on fruit cups and fruit leather to supplement our apples and clementines.

I like the *idea* of a whole foods diet, but in reality, it doesn’t really happen in our family.

By: justmakingitup

justmakingitup — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:05:21 +0000

Would your grandmother recognize peanut butter cups?

Sigh. I thought not.

My kids love sushi, hearts of palm and stuffed cabbage leaves, all great lunch foods. Asher loves hunks of plain tofu as a snack (blech). The only one who will actually take any of this for lunch is the 5-year-old. The others are tired of the abuse. Between what I’ll let them eat and what they are willing to eat in public, school lunches are a freaking nightmare.

By: charlotteotter

charlotteotter — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:30:13 +0000

This was covered by the British media yesterday and I was hitting my head and going “duh” too. I thought we knew all this already. I guess there’s nothing wrong with a bit of over-emphasis in case some people missed the message before.

By: gartenfische

gartenfische — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:14:40 +0000

I didn’t buy that processsed stuff either, and I’m not aware that my daughter was teased for her healthy food lunches (she’s in college now). I think it probably did happen sometimes that she ended up trading something healthy for one of those evil additive things. And, I don’t know if she was over-reacting to my insistence on healthy food, but she definitely got into the candy thing when became old enough to do what she wanted. However, I am pleased to say that she seems to be starting to grow out of that. Hopefully, the healthy start will have the stronger influence.

By: serenetabbie

serenetabbie — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:36:33 +0000

I heard this on NPR and said “well, duh” too. As for the lunches, no one gives my kids a hard time at all about the lunches they bring… and the boy is 9, prime teasing-for-differences age.

By: cranky housefrau

cranky housefrau — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:26:27 +0000

I babysat for a family 15+ years ago who wouldn’t let their kids have food coloring, particularly red, because of the same problem. 15 years ago! and just NOW they are making this link? I have never noticed this problem with my kids, but food coloring just creeps me out. When we were in DC last weekend all these people were eating blue cotton candy and walking around with blue tinged mouths. It just looks wrong! Gross!