I’ve never been one to cook anything other than prepackaged stuff that you just throw in the microwave. I guess that’s not really even cooking. I’ve only made stuff from scratch a few times. Most of those things have been potatoes though. It’s not hard to peel potatoes, boil them, squeeze them through a ricer and then stir them up with some milk and butter.
That’s going to change in version 2.0. I plan on, when the budget allows, to buy fresh stuff and make things from scratch. No more things that have ingredients that I don’t recognize. No more prepackaged meals. Of course that doesn’t mean I’m going to be baking my own bread, at least I don’t think so. I think it takes more time and some special equipment for that. If there was only some resource I could use to find out how to bake bread.
Speaking of eating fresh, I have to make a comment on Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution now. If you haven’t seen the show, it’s about this world famous chef going around the country trying to change the food that school districts are making available to the children. It think it’s an awesome endeavor and fully support what he wants to do. But I don’t support how he, sometimes, tries to get the point across.
In one of the episodes, he had an overweight teenager and a local fast food restaurant owner together in a room where the teenager is, basically, blaming the fast food owner for making her and her parents fat. That’s just wrong and being sensational just to make a point. In some ways the end justifies the means, but not in this case. We can’t blame fast food places for making us fat. That’s personal responsibility. That starts at home.
If your kids are fat, blame yourself.
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