baldowrie wrote:got another little gem for you form my children teacher...the wisdom of this is brilliant
There is such a thing a being too healthy and junk food is part of balanced diet and you should eat it!
I know what the teacher's been watching on the telly!
There's been a series of half hour food programme on the BBC in the past week, mornings, then repeated later.
One of the programmes concluded that junk food was gunge etc etc, but the presenter finishes by saying it's enjoyable and fine to eat it as part of a balanced diet and tucks into a cruddy looking burger.
I know what the teacher's been watching on the telly!
Ah right..well it's easier than thinking about it when your of limited knowledge!
oh plus don't forget you can by it all from T***o and their meat is much better than buying expensive free range organic stuff from the sources I get it
Mustn't buy it from any where else but there as is 'dirty' else where.
I can here it coming......I know a song that gets on your nerves
Well it's preferable to keep hitting my head on the brick wall
also playing a stars wars game on the PC and bashing the **** out of the baddies helps
I think that up to a point, there may be something to be said for that outlook. I know plenty of people who are so concerned with being 'healthy' that they eat loads of low-fat food that has no nutritional value in it all. I think it's probably better for you to eat something with real cream in once in a while than slimmer's chicken and sweetcorn soup that contains 1% chicken and 1% sweetcorn.
I personally wouldn't class cream or meat with fat on it as 'junk food', (and I'd probably call that overly packaged, highly processed so-called healthy food 'junk') but even so, I was occasionally taken to a McDonald's as a child, and enjoyed it, and have nonetheless grown up able to cook proper meals, eat a healthy diet and have a very healthy approach to food. I just knew that it was bad for you and you shouldn't eat it very often, but that it was okay as an occasional treat. Likewise, my bf and I sometimes order Chinese and sometimes eat crisps, and we know it's bad, but it's only very rarely and not going to do us any long-term harm. I'm more worried about condoning possibly questionable farming/sourcing practices that I know little about than I am about anything I eat doing something nasty to me. I don't think it does any good to be too 'holier than thou'.
But that seems like a very dangerous thing to say to young and impressionable children who might take it the wrong way and assume that junk food is fine, and judging from what else I've heard about the teachers in your children's school, baldowrie, I don't blame you for being so scathing!!
They're not weeds - that's a habitat for wildlife, don't you know?
most on this forum when they talk about healthy diet they won't be referring to diet and in loosing weight diet and more eating without the adding of additives and the messing about of food.
what got me is that she did not say that having the odd take away now and again is fine if you eat a balanced diet but it is part of a balanced diet. Whilst advocating that the supermarkets sell foods that are fresher and healthier than home grown organics and meat that is reared humanly is worse than the stuff packeted in the supermarket freezer and pumped with water to bulk it up.
Mind you when you come across one teacher in another school who though that Eco Schools was about being economical and not ecological, there is very little hope!
we eat mostly healthily, but I have to admit that sometimes one of us will nip out to the kebab van or chinese- both of which are walking distance, both of which we do walk to.
I have been known to eat crap from iceland, and in balance to that I have a home made (from scratch; not one of my secret packet mixes) casserole in my oven right now. It is all about balance. Soph loves chips, but she knows she's not allowed them more than once a week. Same with crisps etc.
oh how I love my tea, tea in the afternoon. I can't do without it, and I think I'll have another cup very
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
due to circumstances we wound up with eggs and chips tonight...thanks Stoney for your help but ya didn't have to give me the low down on your fantastic sounding dinner
baldowrie wrote:due to circumstances we wound up with eggs and chips tonight...thanks Stoney for your help but ya didn't have to give me the low down on your fantastic sounding dinner
Roast belly of pork with rhubarb chutney, roast potatoes, roast pumpkin, and peas. Plus chocolate cake. Slurp!
I think someone ought to make the distinction between 'normal' food, that may, yes, contain fat (shock horror) and supposedly healthy food that is in fact hideously over processed to the point of probably going to turn you into a tentacle wheeling mutant.
QuakerBear wrote:I think someone ought to make the distinction between 'normal' food, that may, yes, contain fat (shock horror) and supposedly healthy food that is in fact hideously over processed to the point of probably going to turn you into a tentacle wheeling mutant.
Hear Hear, literally, as anybody who has been following my Tinnitus thread will know. Anything with aspartime (nutrasweet) in it can not possibly be considered healthy!
