Nudge. Government compulsion. They are good causes but unfortunately compelled by dint of will of an unelected nonofficial holding no official office but through government agencies nonetheless and that does not work unless you are universally loved and Michelle Obama is not. Together the pair does not set an attractive enduring committed internalized example.
With everything going for him, nutritionists, dietitians, physicians, White House chefs, nagging Klingon warrior wife, Google Images: [Obama eating]
It's embarrassing. Michelle does better. She is shown pedantic index finger extended, in front of fruit displays, at vegetable markets, behind vegetable baskets and also stuffing her face with junk food from disposable containers. Again, with a full staff to keep things going the way that she wants them: [michelle obama eating]
That's the thing, disposable containers are ugly.
This is on my mind because I've been avoiding shopping for over a week. I'm out of everything. I just do not want to go. I want to do other things instead. Plus I have to drag it all back up, put it all away, cook it, clean up the mess I make. So, having a staff to do some of that would make things a lot easier and attractive. Compare Barak and Michelle Obama with a regular bloke who lacks such a supportive staff to do shopping to hauling to storage to cooking to cleaning. [thingsimadethenate]
I noticed this last night. It's like being plunked down upon an island of food-serinity where confusion and dispute, nudging and power struggle about food does not exist.
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Some people think there is a moral element to doing ones own work.
Pooie, I say. If ever I can afford it I am sooooo getting someone in to clean and I'd get a chef, too, even though I like to cook. Actually, if someone keeps the kitchen spotless I like to mess it up, so maybe I'd just have a cook come in on some days.
Also... I got a part time job to go with my full time school, so if I disappear more than usual, I'm probably fine (and not cleaning the kitchen.)
While I absolutely cannot stand Michelle Obama and her pushy attitude, I have to confess that I sort of agree with her on some things.
People SHOULD eat healthier. They should cook their own meals and only eat pre prepared food on rare occasions. They should understand about food and nutrition.
The problem is should. They don't. We used to have a class in high school called Home Ec where everyone learned some of those things. Cooking, household management, budgeting. It didn't make you an expert, but it sure did give you some tools. Today...I don't believe any such thing exists. The schools are too busy teaching radical revisions of history and indoctrinating politically correct thinking.
Cooking is work and takes some skills. I love to cook and understand many people don't. I'm also like Synova. If I could get someone to clean up after me in the kitchen it would be so wonderful. But...I digress. Cooking also requires tools. Some people can't afford the tools or don't have access.
So...without the skills or the tools, all the nagging by that giant cow Michelle Obama is not going to get anything changed. If you give people who have no tools and no skills AND no desire to cook a big fat EBT card....what do you think they are going to buy. Junk food.
Life is filled with a lot of boring repetition.
I too would love a chef to prepare healthy meals and then clean up the kitchen. think of all the time freed up to do other things - like - watch "the view".
A friend of mine, who is a wonderful magnificent cook, once inspired me with some simple words:
"If you can read, you can cook."
It's so true, DBQ. Our government run schools are teaching our children how to be America hating leftwing whiners. Actual skills about common sense like nutrition and basic cooking skills? Too many cuts in the budget because administrators and teacher's unions need more money and bigger pensions.
@ April
Many of us oldsters, learned basic cooking skills from our mothers and grandmothers (and in my case also my father who was a gourmet cook when I was growing up). Learn by watching and helping and eventually making meals yourselves.
Cooking is a cultural thing.
Unfortunately, generations of people who either are on welfare and don't bother to cook or generations of people who have been relying on pre-packaged meals and fast food to eat, have created yet another generation of people who don't cook, can't cook or won't cook.
The only way to reverse the trend is through education at the younger years. Education and make it FUN instead of a dreary chore that produces unpalatable food. Damn it. Let them not only eat cake, teach them how to bake it!!! And make frosting too.
Now don't get me wrong. I do love some McDonalds egg mcmuffins and they have a pretty good chicken sandwich. But those are treats not every day meals.
DBQ - I remember home-economics in high school. I will never forget muffin making day. I was in charge of the dry ingredients and I forgot the sugar. lol. The muffins tasted terrible. Everyone laughed and I got a bad grade. As it should be! You don't learn if you don't fail.
(In college, our group's concrete slump test was also a huge failure. We pulled the cone shaped form off, and the thing went splat.) (at least I wasn't the only one to blame!)
My mother and grandmother were always in the kitchen. I rebelled. I never liked to cook and was bored by it all.
Now I regret not paying attention or showing more interest. That's OK. Anyone can learn to cook at any age. It just takes practice and a willingness to try and fail and not give up. Pick easy recipes!
The rewards of eating a healthy home-cooked meal are worth the effort.
A lot of people of color don't have access to a supermarket to buy good food to cook.
Lessen to them: Don't rob and then burn down the supermarkets in your neighborhood.
The same progressives (read marxists) who are FORCING kids to eat right are also FORCING them into contact with diseased kids from Central America who have been FORCE fed into most every school district in the country. They have also FORCED ebola on us in the name of, uh...fairness to Africans. Such are the wages of unlimited willful FORCE.
I remember Home Ec too. Us boys were forced to take it. It was in the 70s when they decided that making the boys take shop and girls take Home Ec was wrong, so they had everyone take both.
I liked the Cooking part, even though I could never bake anything except bread (GO CHIP!). I remember learning how to make bouillabaisse soup - I still make for the family.
Synova, I think I remember you saying you were at Clark AB. If so, You should know that the real cost of having a household staff is not in what you pay them. The real cost is in the loss of privacy to you and your family and the insulting way they lie to you about the stuff they have stolen from you.
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