Obese Third Grader Taken From Parents.....

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If food is bad, or even MIGHT be bad, you throw it the fuck away.

If it might be bad, you eat it and let your stomach sort it out. If it IS bad, at least one orifice will power spray it into the toilet—problem solved.

Net,
human garbage disposal.

[Cain]

This is the correct method.

Cain,
veteran of a thousand food poisoning incidents.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Eh, I have forced all of my children to help me in the kitchen from the time they were old enough to stir.  

My kids can cook, and not just microwave pizza and shit, I mean real food from scratch.

I grew up basically living in our kitchen, it was the heart of the house and where everyone usually was, sitting around the table.  It was nothing to come home and find my grandmother starting dinner and bowls set on the table for us kids to help with, either shelling peas or peeling potatos, snapping beans.  In retrospect, I grew up eating healthy, mainly because we grew our own vegetables and raised our own meat.

I know it's easy to put the blame on our education system but seriously, isn't it our responsibility as parents to make sure our kids eat healthy?  Isn't it our job to make sure they have the basic household skills to survive?

My first husband was a mommy's boy, couldn't even boil water.  I decided then, any child I had, male or female would leave my home with the ability to be self sufficient.  

I don't know, maybe it's not the "right" way or the "best" way to raise them, but you know, they aren't obese, they all are active in sports and in excellent health.  AND they can cook, do laundry, clean a bathtub, mop a floor and so forth.  It works for me.

It is the responsibility of the parents, but when the state mandates that the kids spend a significant amount of waking hours at an educational institution, it also becomes the responsibility of the state.

I know a single mom who doesn't have time to cook. Period. How are her kids going to learn?

How about people who didn't learn to cook... who teaches their kids?

Home-ec isn't just cooking. It's also economics. Schools used to be not only about academic skills but also "how to function as an adult" skills like woodshop and mechanics, and if our kids are going to be there all day, then they need to be learning those skills there, too... like how not to overdraft your account, how to pay bills on time, how to write up a simple budget.

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This is the correct method.

Cain,
veteran of a thousand food poisoning incidents.

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One of the stupidest quotes in that whole article is "It's a lifestyle change and they are trying to make it seem like I am not embracing that. It is very hard, but I am trying."

BULL FUCKING SHIT.

It's NOT "HARD", YOU ARE JUST A LAZY, SPOILED ASSHOLE. "Hard" is working as a longshoreman or running a marathon or climbing a mountain or competing in a triathalon. "Hard" is raising kids alone in a city with one of the highest cost of living ratios and highest unemployment rates in the country without a formal education or any marketable job skills. "Hard" is living under a bridge because you couldn't make your house payments and rents are higher than your mortgage was.

Changing your fucking grocery shopping and cooking habits and going for a walk once a day is NOT FUCKING "HARD". And one year is ample time to ease into it. Stop buying junk food, you fat, stupid, lazy fuck.

AMEN!

[Triple Zero]

BTW Khara from your last post and your first ITT, you're a really great mother. Just needed to say that

[Kai]

Sometimes I am amazed at the contrast between the relative popularity of cooking shows/competitions, and the absolute inability the general public has when it comes to preparing food.

Seriously. Even just the basics.

I don't think cooking shows really help with that; people end up with the impression that cooking from scratch is this sophisticated and complex alchemy unattainable to the common man, when honestly, where they need to start is with simple things like "rice" and "fried egg".

This is the /exact/ feeling I had about baking until I had done it several times. Since my cooking generally involves inprecise measurements on the stovetop, it sounded like alchemy. I had no idea what baking powder or baking soda was for, or why you would add shortening, or eggs, or salt. After baking a few times, a cake, some bread, brownies (all under Phox's supervision, of course <3), I realized how simple it was. Baking powder, baking soda, yeast, these are all leavening agents of differing strengths and texture. Salt is just for flavor. Eggs and shortening act to glue everything together.

No longer alchemy. Though the proportions DO have to be close to the recipe or it won't rise right, will be too sticky or dry, or won't taste right.

[Kai]

Home-ec isn't just cooking. It's also economics. Schools used to be not only about academic skills but also "how to function as an adult" skills like woodshop and mechanics, and if our kids are going to be there all day, then they need to be learning those skills there, too... like how not to overdraft your account, how to pay bills on time, how to write up a simple budget.

Seriously. My mom and dad taught me everything I know about home repair and tool use, but I would have really benefited from a basic auto maintenance class in HS. Too bad they only offered it after 5 prerequisites...Should have been available for everyone.

[Freeky]

If you add an extra egg, just one, to one of those boxed cake mixes, you get a really moist cake that won't dry out so quickly.

/tangent

[Cain]

This is the correct method.

Cain,
veteran of a thousand food poisoning incidents.

Tends to be more from the other end.

I've also noticed my sense of balance totally goes haywire when I've got food poisoning.  I managed to fall down a hill twice in an hour when I was ill in Switzerland, and in my latest incident, I had significant trouble getting from the bed to the toilet in the morning.  I dunno if that is common to all food poisoning incidents for all people, just for me, or just the last two of mine, but it is rather strange.

[Phox]

If you add an extra egg, just one, to one of those boxed cake mixes, you get a really moist cake that won't dry out so quickly.

/tangent

That's generally a good idea. Actually, we modified the brownie recipe we used because it wasn't wet enough to mix. 

One of the stupidest quotes in that whole article is "It's a lifestyle change and they are trying to make it seem like I am not embracing that. It is very hard, but I am trying."

BULL FUCKING SHIT.

It's NOT "HARD", YOU ARE JUST A LAZY, SPOILED ASSHOLE. "Hard" is working as a longshoreman or running a marathon or climbing a mountain or competing in a triathalon. "Hard" is raising kids alone in a city with one of the highest cost of living ratios and highest unemployment rates in the country without a formal education or any marketable job skills. "Hard" is living under a bridge because you couldn't make your house payments and rents are higher than your mortgage was.

Changing your fucking grocery shopping and cooking habits and going for a walk once a day is NOT FUCKING "HARD". And one year is ample time to ease into it. Stop buying junk food, you fat, stupid, lazy fuck.

AMEN!

What Net said. 

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This is the correct method.

Cain,
veteran of a thousand food poisoning incidents.

Tends to be more from the other end.

I've also noticed my sense of balance totally goes haywire when I've got food poisoning.  I managed to fall down a hill twice in an hour when I was ill in Switzerland, and in my latest incident, I had significant trouble getting from the bed to the toilet in the morning.  I dunno if that is common to all food poisoning incidents for all people, just for me, or just the last two of mine, but it is rather strange.

Can't say I've experienced that. My brain just kind whispers to me, "You're going to vomit soon," and I get a metallic flavor in my mouth—both well before it comes back up. It's fairly rare though. I think it's related to my absolute lack of food aversions. Besides indications of botulism and spoiled meat, I have built up a strong trust in my guts. If I were born in a different era I would've been the asshole to invent blue cheese.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It depends on the type of food poisoning. Some of them fuck with your central nervous system.

[Luna]

Urgh.  I got either food poisoning or a stomach virus when I was in college.  The helpful folks down at the campus medical station basically said, "it's one or the other, doesn't really matter, just don't eat anything solid for a few days, let it run its course."

"Run its course" meant "just projectile vomit every 15 minutes (yeah, my sick bastard friends timed me), or at the smell of food, and, for gods' sake, drink more juice and water than you puke."  I'm ALL set with food poisoning, thanks.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Sometimes I am amazed at the contrast between the relative popularity of cooking shows/competitions, and the absolute inability the general public has when it comes to preparing food.

That's the beauty of teevee - why do when you can sit on your fat ass and watch? Same goes with weight loss shows. The best way to lose weight is not sitting on your fat ass on the sofa and watching land whales wobbling around an assault course.