SidKaye
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This is not necessarily about "organic hooey", it is about wholesome food.
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Fisherman
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romore wrote:Don't get me going on this 'organic' hooey.  Just means all the bugs and diseases haven't been killed. It is nothing more than a huge marketing scam to separate the gullible from their money. Without fertilizers and pesticides there would be a lot less food available.
My stepson's mil raises lambs for market, they get their fertilized food and supplements the normal way. She then sends them to the recycled hippies on the Gulf islands for fattening, they come back as Saltspring Island official genuine organic for a fat profit. She is laughing all the way to the bank.
Back to topic, Jamie is a hoot to watch and comes up with some good ideas but does get carried away at times.
Been eating a few too many of your stepsons fertilized lambs, eh? It shows.
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EgorKC
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westernrvparkowner wrote:In my opinion, way too much is being made over "artificial vs Natural", "organic", "no synthetic ingredients" etc, etc, etc. Organically raised vegetables are usually fertilized with animal waste, anyone care to take out the middleman (the vegetable) and eat the fertilizer, either natural or unnatural? Our food supply is safer than anytime in history. When was the last time a town or village had all the occupants die of food poisoning? Sure there are foods packed with sugar and salt and the like and they shouldn't be a steady diet for anyone, but I think television and the internet have way overblown the dangers food presents. Getting kids and adults off their buttocks and out from in front of the computer and television and into activities that exercise the body would go a lot further to curing our obesity problem than trying to ban toys in Happy Meals ever will.
That Sir is the best example of "common sense" I have read in a very long time. There is still hope.
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Jcghill
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One of the difficult things with my generation is that most households require two incomes and those are the lucky ones as there are many single parents out there. It is difficult to come home at 5:30-6 pm after your commute home and picking up the kids from daycare to cook a meal and have it on the table by 7pm. It is much easier to go through a drive thru to pick up dinner.
I am fortunate that I work part time and plan ahead for our meals. On my days off I boot the kids outside to play. I'm fortunate that I live in a neighborhood where I can do this. There are many neighborhoods where this is not possible as our society has changed since we were children. Never no when your kid might get abducted just because they are riding they're bikes outside.
I'm all for Jamie Oliver, but June Cleaver is no longer at home planning the evening dinner she's working to pay the mortgage.
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Wanderlost
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When we were both working, we had very little time to cook after work. However, we ate really well. Why?
One: crockpot. Put everything in it the night before, stick it in the fridge. Next morning, pull out, set in crockpot, turn on, go to work. Dinner was already ready upon arrival.
Two: Every few weeks, we'd spend a weekend cooking up all kinds of stuff, then freezing in single and double portions, in Foodsaver vacuum packaging. Arrive home, decide what to eat, pull out, microwave -- instant high quality dinner.
Too many folks won't take the time to plan out their foods, and just go the easy route with take out.
Jamie got way too overwrought recently. He condemned things like the chicken carcass, which is where one gets high quality chicken stock, among other silliness.
Trying to get people to eat better doesn't mean throwing out foods that don't look pretty.
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Ole Man Dan
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School food is a misnomer... it's******these days.
As a kid my school, in the poorest part of town, served cooked food...
We had a basic menu of 'Meat & three veggies',the veggies may have came from a can, but they were cooked & seasoned,on site.
They actually had cooks and a honest to God, Nutritionist,
who worked for the Board of Education.
We had a limited menu, but it was real food.
'Fast Forward' to the present...
Sometimes I think the school system money allocated for lunchrooms is diluted by free Breakfast,Lunches,Suppers and high priced help.
Then they allow junk food to be served that's pre-packaged elsewhere...
Brown Bagging would be healthier...
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Jim Shoe
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Yeah, and I remember when Jamie Oliver was cooking the same greasy, fat food as all the other talking heads on the Food Network. If somebody gave me a multi-million dollar grant to promote a diet consisting of palm leaves and bottled water, my rear end would be on a beach in Florida. Or in Alaska touting the advantages of a diet of snow and how to avoid yellow patches. Or anything else that they'd like me to promote. But I wouldn't be eating that stuff when the camera wasn't rolling.
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