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Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

jglass

jglass

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Anyone catch this show tonight?

The base of the show is Jamie Oliver is trying to teach people in Huntington WV to eat healthier and give up a diet heavy on processed foods. Huntington WV is about 60-70 miles or so from here.
Huntington was in the spotlight a year or so ago for being the most obese city in the US I think. I was kinda fascinated to see how he documented the schools using more processed bad for our kids food because it is cheaper and quicker to make. Of course the kids love the processed foods flavor.
He even took some kids into his kitchen and showed them how scraps of chicken bones and skin can be used with other fillers to make chicken nuggets. The kids watched him grind up chicken bones and skin then strain and mix with a few other things and make nuggets. The children choose these nuggets to eat over the other pieces of chicken like the breast or wings. Makes me grateful my two sis's small kids are healthier eaters. At one point Jamie Oliver went into a class of small children and none of them could identify fresh vegetables. They didnt even know what a potato looked like and that was what their beloved fries came from. You can understand a kindergarten child maybe not recongizing an eggplant but being unable to know a tomato or cucumber on sight is terrible.
 
Made me very grateful my little nieces love veggies even if you don't want to be trapped in the back seat with them 2 hours after they have had a plate broccoli. If it wasnt 10 degrees outside that day I would have hung my head out the window like a dog lol. The six year old is a princess to the bone who will look you straight in the eye and swear she has never passed gas in her life while turning red from head to toe.
 
I tell ya- my sister has quite a narrow food palette and she's raised her kids the same way. And she's a working mother- God bless her- and I know she needs easy & practical foods most of the time. But I swear, if her kids didn't have an uncle who dragged them into the kitchen every chance he got- those yungin's would have no idea that chicken nuggets even came from a feathered critter w/ claws and a beak! (supposedly, anyway!) :)
 
Yes indeed it is a good thing they have Uncle Kev.
My sister can be heavy on the prepacked stuff for the sake of convenience.
 
When a child does not know what a potato is (for example) there is no one to blame but the parents! They are not teaching their children anything - and they don't care to. Apparently parents like this are the cause for the way children eat and live. Keep having kids and let outsiders raise them and teach them - grrrrrrrrrrr

ticks me off - no call for it- but I'll shush before I say something I REALLY want to say...
 
What ever happened to flash cards to teach children to read???? I remember pictures like an "A" for Apple, Carrot for letter "C" or the Tomato for letter "T". I can not believe that children do not know what a potato looks like. Around here we go through atleast 5 lbs a week. The kids have grown up with the peeling. As a kid with the potato farm we always had 50lb sacks around. It wasn't the knowledge of what a potato looked like but what size grade it was or type of potato.
That's what happens when the good ole cartoons were taken off the TV. Bugs Bunny was always chomping on a carrot.Elmer Fudd was always rescuing his veggie garden. Popeye was always eating a can of spinach. Tom and Jerry had the whole food group going on, lol.
 
>>I can not believe that children do not know what a potato looks like

first hand experience reporting here: believe it.
a potato should look like the thing on the McD's menu board for "super sized" fries. in a garden setting you can omit the paper sleeve, but otherwise . . .

not my kids, once upon a time I stumbled on a 'kiddie hoe' - about three feet long, mini-hoe blade, all three know what it is, what it does, and how to make it do what it does.

but the neighbor kids . . . lamentable but true situation.
 
I was brought up in the kitchen, the garden, and I always did the grocery shopping with my mother! We went to the farms to get fresh eggs and pick fresh produce. Not only did I know what my fruits and veggies were - but I knew how to grow, pick, clean, eat, cook or bake with them and also how to preserve them for future use. I knew my cuts of meat, where they came from, how to cook them. I knew my cheeses, breads, flours, seasonings, all at an early age.

I don't care what anyone says - I believe children SHOULD go grocery shopping. Yeah -they ask for things - and it burns me up to see a mother tell her little ones that they cannot buy fruits or vegetables and her cart is loaded with pre-packaged meals to nuke. Some school "introduce" certain fruits and veggies for children to try. If they like it - why not buy it and cook it? Sheer ignorance and laziness on the part of the moms.

All these pre-packaged SLOP, MSG-loaded, over-processed foods that can be nuked are not only making women (and men) lazy, but it is ruining everyone's health as well.

Microwaving foods changes the molecular structure of the foods - no wonder cancer is so high and other diseases are out there.

I worked 90+ hours a week for years - and I still made time for cooking, baking and big batch cooking so that I could freeze it to re-heat in the oven when I was pressed for time. I went 9 1/2 years without one day off - including all holidays. Don't tell me it can't be done. I never slept - I had no time. And I still did all my laundry and cleaned my house daily. And I had to keep up with the outside too.

What's their lazy-azz excuse?
 
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I too feel fortunate for having been brought-up in the country amid gardens and farms and fields. Not only did it help me establish knowledge, experience and enjoyable habits that would eventually become my life's bread-and-butter, but it's kept me fat and happy! :)

My young niece and nephew are kinda being raised with other priorities and are being encouraged to develop other hobbies and interests. This is good too, but... Oh well... When Uncle Kevin gets a hold of them and tasks them w/ peeling potatoes, cracking eggs or hulling strawberries- I can just see their eyes sparkle as the enjoyment of learning this new stuff takes hold. I hope long after I'm gone Hailley and Layne think of me everytime their hands are in food- or everytime they enjoy a satisfying meal!
 
I was reading posts on our local newspage from people who live in Huntington and had watched the show. Every single one of them were shocked at how badly Jamie Oliver had been treated by the principal and cafeteria workers in Huntington.
There is a local radio station there that has a good ol boy DJ that did alot to keep the animosity going towards Jamie while he was there. The ladies who work in the cafeteria rolled their eyes at Jamie and several especially the head lunch lady were down right confrontational with him. Huntington can be a bad area anyway. The last time we were there was a year ago when Jon had to have dental surgery. I wouldnt even drive in that town. Jon's stepdad took us. Everytime I watch the news someone in that city has been murdered.
I understand that processed packaged garbage is quicker and takes less employees to prepare there for saving the schools money but when are they going to decide our children are worth the investment?
 
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I understand that processed packaged garbage is quicker and takes less employees to prepare there for saving the schools money but when are they going to decide our children are worth the investment?
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I am dead set against those lunches. Children's bodies are growing and they need sufficient nutrients, vitamins, minerals - all which they do not get from microwaved crap.

I'd love to be a top official in that town - I would fire everyone in the cafeteria - or should I say - "the warmin room" - and I would hire COOKS, and make them prepare hot lunches, with fruits and milk - not junk foods and pop

I'd see to it that those children ate foods that were cooked and not nuked and that they had a selection of veggies, etc. don't like peas? fine you can have corn or carrots - and school breakfast would not be poptarts!
 
They were serving the kids premade breakfast pizza at one point in the show. They even told Jamie that pizza qualified as two veggies going by the regs they have to follow. They even gave him a hard time for serving rice instead of a bread. He ended up having to offer the kids hamburger buns to go with the fresh meals he had prepared in order to meet the regulations. The hamburger buns were already in the kitchens pantry.
 
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I can't stand it with the Food Network. With PBS, a cooking show is very easy to watch online.Even the recipes for an episode can be found on the chef's sites.

Trying to find anything on Jamie's Show The Food Revolution.... Everything has a price on it. Every UTube video is just a promo.

Wake up world! There is a problem out there with unhealthy eating and we are starting a revolution against it. We have an Englishman here in America starting that "REVOLUTION", lmao. Jamie needs a red apron. And to join the "REVOLUTION" it's going to cost you no matter how we can get you to participate!!
 
poor guy - what else could he have done? they could have treated him better and explained the ease of their cooking and what is available in those lousy meals and they could have handled it much better than they did
 
>>handled it much better than they did

I wonder about that. many/most/all? public schools get Federal aid - specifically to feed kids when the parents can't afford 'lunch money'

it's a slippery slope - once the Feds get their hooks into it, the schools must follow the Federal rules and regs in toto - no exceptions no matter how the school district feels about it. and from time to time "the regs" get pretty stupid sounding.

there is of course the "breakfast at school" Federal program - for kids that don't get fed before they come to school . . . like the comedians say, you can't make this stuff up. 50 years ago poor kids may have come to school hungry, but they were not dropped off in their mom's Lexus.
 
Good to finally catch the 2 rpisodes out on Fancast.

First, to try and buck government mucky mucks with what they have determined to be food is probably a lost cause. Specially when they were the ones to consider catsup as a vegetable.

I think Jamie needs to rethink his approach to the matter. Changing eating habbits to a city is changing a life style. Work with what's avaliable and give the people what they are use too. The school food industry can have a lot of power over what is produced and supplied when you look at the numbers of children they feed daily.
I am sure that even processed foods like instant potatoes can be much healthier than what was being supplied on episode 1 and with the buying power of the school food programs I'm sure better could be purchased at the right price. The demand could dictate the price. What Food industry leader would turn down supplying this kind of market? The same with making a chicken nugget more healthy?
I am not going to knock pizza as part of a meal though because if made proper it can be considered healthy. The same goes for a pasta and meat sauce or even for that matter, sloppy joe's. There is no need for french fries to be on a school lunch menu I will agree. The same goes for tater tots.

Take the menus that are there and work to make them healthier by changing the ingredients used. Educate the children through appropriate classes. Let them help by making a menu of their own for once a week with the choices they learn in class. If the children feel involved and creative I would wage that preparring and serving what they chose wouldn't end up in the garbage. That information can be carried home to their families and spread through the community.
 
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