Thursday, November 11, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Alright everyone. Let's play a game. It's called, "Why is America obese?"
Is it...?
A) Our national inclination towards excess and greed
B) Our lack of responsibility to take care of the children we created
Or is it
C) DORITO SANDWICH
Yes people, that is a link to a recipe for a Dorito sandwich. In case you haven't clicked the link, it's a handful of Doritos, piled on white bread smothered in butter.
1 in every 3 children are obese. I don't think I even had a Dorito until I was in Junior High. I learned from my parents what to eat and what not to eat- to this day I'll only drink diet soda because it's the only thing my mom would buy. Though that's not a very convincing argument on how healthy I ate growing up, the point is that children follow example. Actions speak louder than words, and right now, America is making it's children Dorito sandwiches and buying chicken nuggets and large sodas and counting french fries as vegetables for their children.
This is all coming from a girl cramming Cheez-Its into her mouth at work... But these dinners that I updated about are sprouting from childhood memories of my mother cooking dinner every night and the three of us eating at the table. Listening to my mom complain about her various jobs, and learning about the importance of small businesses from my dad.
Ronald McDonald shouldn't be raising our children.
Is it...?
A) Our national inclination towards excess and greed
B) Our lack of responsibility to take care of the children we created
Or is it
C) DORITO SANDWICH
Yes people, that is a link to a recipe for a Dorito sandwich. In case you haven't clicked the link, it's a handful of Doritos, piled on white bread smothered in butter.
1 in every 3 children are obese. I don't think I even had a Dorito until I was in Junior High. I learned from my parents what to eat and what not to eat- to this day I'll only drink diet soda because it's the only thing my mom would buy. Though that's not a very convincing argument on how healthy I ate growing up, the point is that children follow example. Actions speak louder than words, and right now, America is making it's children Dorito sandwiches and buying chicken nuggets and large sodas and counting french fries as vegetables for their children.
This is all coming from a girl cramming Cheez-Its into her mouth at work... But these dinners that I updated about are sprouting from childhood memories of my mother cooking dinner every night and the three of us eating at the table. Listening to my mom complain about her various jobs, and learning about the importance of small businesses from my dad.
Ronald McDonald shouldn't be raising our children.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Cus we're the three best friends that ANYBODY could have!
One of the topics we were discussing in class was "lack of community". It's so easy it is to swoop by McDonald's and pick up a Big Mac and a large fry as opposed to spending a lovely evening with your friends and family making a complete, healthy dinner. It perplexed me to think about this, because almost every night my friends and I make dinner together and spend the evening eating and drinking and laughing and being a family. Awww. Here's some pictures of a fiesta where myself and 2 of my best friends (Steve and Elise) all contributed to the preparing and cooking of a wonderful meal. The beer helped too.
Here's Steve, getting the barbie que ready some beef for our fajitas.
Me and Steve, bein' awesome.
Steve and Elise, bein' adorable.
Here I am, cutting the beef up to cook with the peppers.
Elise spicing up the pinto beans!
Everything hanging out on the stove.
Final product! Delicioso!
This "community" business really is connecting with the Intercultural Communication class I'm taking. On the happiness poll, America scored not too terribly (#16). Yet everyone was so incredibly concerned and unhappy (ironic) that we didn't score higher, and they all wanted to know why. It's because we all would rather spend money on ourselves: bettering our own homes and getting a better car than our neighbor and buying our children cell phones and iPods. Personally, I'd rather spend 50 dollars on groceries for me and my friends to survive off of for the month than to buy an outfit to go be seen at The Mucky Duck.
Here's Steve, getting the barbie que ready some beef for our fajitas.
Me and Steve, bein' awesome.
Steve and Elise, bein' adorable.
Here I am, cutting the beef up to cook with the peppers.
Elise spicing up the pinto beans!
Everything hanging out on the stove.
Final product! Delicioso!
This "community" business really is connecting with the Intercultural Communication class I'm taking. On the happiness poll, America scored not too terribly (#16). Yet everyone was so incredibly concerned and unhappy (ironic) that we didn't score higher, and they all wanted to know why. It's because we all would rather spend money on ourselves: bettering our own homes and getting a better car than our neighbor and buying our children cell phones and iPods. Personally, I'd rather spend 50 dollars on groceries for me and my friends to survive off of for the month than to buy an outfit to go be seen at The Mucky Duck.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Poverty is relative
The reading about poverty made me think of this site my friend sent me. It's pictures of family food consumption by country. I'm not exactly sure if it's by week, month, or year (my best deduction would be month), but the pictures are quite startling in both good and bad ways. The amount of packaging was interesting to see vary from country to country.
Here's the site: Family Food Consumption
And here's a few pictures from the site:
Germany and United States were numbers 1 and 2
Mexico was 7, and United States showed up again as number 8.
Ecuador was 13, Bhutan was 14, and Chad was last on the list at number 15.
The family living in Bhutan only spends 5 dollars on groceries every week, for 13 people no less! You can't even get a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread from Savemart for less than 5 bucks here. Someone living in the United States may look down upon the family from Bhutan, but who are we to say they are unhappy?
Here's the site: Family Food Consumption
And here's a few pictures from the site:
Germany and United States were numbers 1 and 2
Mexico was 7, and United States showed up again as number 8.
Ecuador was 13, Bhutan was 14, and Chad was last on the list at number 15.
The family living in Bhutan only spends 5 dollars on groceries every week, for 13 people no less! You can't even get a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread from Savemart for less than 5 bucks here. Someone living in the United States may look down upon the family from Bhutan, but who are we to say they are unhappy?
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