Wow. If Oprah's words are to be trusted, vegetable purées just might change the world for the better. I don't know if they're life changers, as she stated, but I am looking forward to sneaking chick peas into the batch of chocolate chip cookies I'm making for my husband and his coworkers. BWAHAHAHA! I don't know if they'll be "Deceptively Delicious" (the title of Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook) but they'll be Deceptively Hilarious when I tell everyone there's beans in their baked goods. Of course, that might become obvious several hours after the cookies are gobbled up. Can I get an "EWWWW"?!
I hope the second segment of the show was effective - where Dr. Oz challenged parents to get and keep their kids healthy. I wasn't shocked to hear that 1 in 5 kids are overweight in this country, but it does make me really sad. He told Oprah's audience that this will be the first generation of kids with lower life expectancy than their parents and it's all because of the obesity epidemic and diabetes. Isn't that heartbreaking? Hopefully a massive adjustment can be made.
Although I have to admit, as a child-free woman, I can understand how hard it must be to tell a screaming kid that he can't have the junk food he wants. I can barely contain myself when it comes to giving my cat the treats he gobbles up like a fiend.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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Hi LO,
A friend of mine made the brownies. They said they were interesting, but no one was a big fan. Maybe if people brought their kids up making these kinds of foods they would enjoy them, but I think for the most part people think they taste a little off. I'm looking forward to hearing how your cookies are received!
yo mkc, for my new year's day party to kick off this project with some close friends, i made the blueberry bars. they tasted pretty good but they don't have that classic flavor to them that a brownie or chocolate chip cookie would. people definitely knew something was up with the bars, but still liked them.
i totally agree with you - i think the trick would be to start early with kids and let them develop a taste for these things.
i'm keeping an eye on my 3 year old niece. she eats like a rockstar. her folks were amazing at introducing new foods (some of her first solid foods were sweet potato and avocado!) and she's the most open kid i've ever eaten with. hopefully that won't change as she gets older.
i'll let you know about the cookies! :) xoLO
This reminds of my mom attempting to convince me that the carob in my cookies was really chocolate. The do NOT taste the same!
And, as a parent, a teacher, and a member of a rural/suburban moms group, I can tell you quite frankly, it's not just what kids eat...it's what they drink (we're warned against sodas but rarely against juice), and it's the many many hours they sit in front of a screen.
serahrose,
that is SO true about carob! it's a scam! :) don't believe the hyp!
i can't believe all the soda that kids are drinking. i see the high schoolers at the corner market by my apartment after school and they've all got bags of chips and bottles of soda and tons of candy. i'm floored. i wasn't allowed to have that at all when i was growing up.
of course, i managed to eat crap in other ways...i think "Hostess" could have been my middle name in junior high. (and not because i threw the best parties)
xoLO
I totally agree about the juice. I've just recently started really looking at the labels and we've switched to only juices that don't contain high fructose corn syrup.. Many juices that are marketed to parents as "healthy" have that as their 2nd ingredient!
We've also stopped buying things like chips and cookies. If they aren't there - they don't want them. We've never really done cokes - if it weren't for grandparents they wouldn't even know what they were. I about came unglued last year when I turned around to see my MIL letting my 18 mo old sip her dr. pepper!!!!
But we are by no means health nuts - my kids won't eat any fruit but bananas ;( The only thing I know to do is buy other fruits and let them see me eating lots of it.
The statistics are really sad.
that_girl, you are awesome. i think it's brave to feed your kids in a manner which you know is healthy, but they might not be seeing at their friends house. (OMG - what did you say to your MIL? i would have hit the roof!) xoLO
I have an 8 year old that used to eat everything when he was much younger and now carbs is all he would eat if given the choice, although he is barely 40 pounds and very thin. (I could be extremely jealous if he wasn't my son).... No sodas, no constant junk food and he only eats when he is hungry rather than on my time table. Seems to work for him.
cathy, i would like your son's metabolism, please. if you could bottle that, you'd be rich. the all-carb, stay slim diet. move over atkins! best, LO
What??? No mention of the weird age transformation of the three tubby kids and how at least one of them went through a mullet phase and they all ended up looking vaguely redneck-ian??
But good luck with your project!
Sue
sue,
MULLET?!
xoLO
Mullet, you know, the hairstyle that's "business in front, party in the back"... or something.
http://images.google.com/images?q=mullet&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
Seriously, though, I was feeling over Oprah, but now I can experience her vicariously through your blog.
Sue
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