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(tap tap) Is this thing on? Let’s kick the dust off the tires & get this thing rolling.
I’ve always been amazed/confused about how little we all really know about our food. IFIC (International Food Information Council) really knocks a home run with this one.
Check it out on YouTube (can’t seem to embed the video but you can scroll over and find out) … what’s for lunch?
August 31st, 2008 at 11:03am
Candace: I’m so glad you are joining us. We’re entering fall calving season and beginning the heavy fermer’s market season too, so I can sure use some extra input and a fresh voice here.
Great video. I like the “focus on the facts, not trends and fads” message!
As far as what’s for lunch: I’d much rather see less-processed traditionally raised foods than organic corn dogs on my children’s lunch trays. As long as it fresh, wholesome and safe, bring it on!
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:29am
I have horrible flashbacks to my school lunches… definitely plastic bags of milk (literally! plastic bags! to our untrained eyes we imagined that’s what breast implants must have looked like… and boys treated them accordingly *sigh*), soggy fries and and cardboard pizza were not what nature intended.
My mother stubbornly packed me a lunch every single day from when I was 6 to when I graduated high school, and I ended up giving half of it away to people who just couldn’t stomach what the lunch ladies offered. My mom unwittingly fed a gaggle of kids for YEARS, and I earned points from my friends for my handouts. Could parents get more involved with their kids are eating? Could school systems take steps to make it happen? Parents will volunteer if they have decent opportunity to do so, and if they feel they’re actually making an impact… they could help all the kids that way, and not be limited by the confines of Junior’s lunchbox.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:18pm
Candace — I love your pic and bio! Post early and often! (And, btw, in first grade I literally CRIED when I found out that “barbecue” meant “sloppy joes” eeeeeeccccchhhh. Suz