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It's not a problem of food insecurity
It's a problem of nutritious food quality insecurity
I know many of my family members who almost live on mac and cheese in a box and feed their kids sugar bombs for breakfast ... one cousin of mine exclusively fed their kid nothing but chicken nuggets and fries (because thats all the kid wanted to eat) - (then they had to treat the kid at ten years of age for conditions with their gall bladder) ... another distant relative fed their kid tons of junk food and by the time the kid was 18, he had runaway diabetes and he died just recently at 40 years of age of heart disease.
These are the kinds of problems caused by a society where we drive all the wealth to a few dozen people at the expense of making the lives of everyone else as miserable as possible. The wealthy attain their wealth by selling us a cheaper degraded food supply that makes them more money while also making us all unwell. The wealthy also make money on our unhealthy lifestyles by selling us the same drugs that are supposed to help our diabetes, heart disease and weight issues
I don't buy fast food any more because it scares me .... its basically investing in your own early death by eating small amounts of poison over a long period of time.
Broccoli is a good source of vitamin C, per weight it's better than oranges. Frozen broccoli is pretty accessible and easy to add to many foods.
I use the stems for soup and eat the florets raw or in food or sauces.
I wish we did a better job educating kids on nutrition, I know very little about it except the odd article I read.
This may be an outrageous thought process, but I genuinely wonder if the comparative wealth of the 60s and 70s kids contributed significantly to the loss of knowledge on how to make decently nutritious food for cheap.
My parents were well off, mostly as a result of being born when they were. My mum tried to cook but never really had to contend with how to get by with the odd bits of food, ends of vegetables, etc. Now that it's 2024, I'm finding that my grandmother's old recipes are supremely more practical than my mother's recipes because they don't rely on having only the premium meats and only the best parts of the vegetables. I wonder how much cultural and culinary knowledge was diminished as a result of a generation or two of high food waste.
That could be part of it.
My grandmother grew up in a poor town during the depression and she considered it a cardinal sin to throw out “edible” food. My mom grew up poor too and she cooks much the same way, but she’s okay with throwing things out. Mom taught my brothers and I the basics, but I never really needed to cook much until I moved out.
I got a lot of experience with less common foods growing up — recipes like pig-feet ragout and recycling leftovers and trimmings and stems into soup or stew or casseroles all the time. A lot of those older recipes that my mom and grandma made are lost to me though. I should really ask my mom for more of them.
I’d love a movement to revive the old ways of cooking in accessible ways.
I think another issues is I can make a great tasting and highly nutritious soup from spare veggies and broth in half an hour, but making broth at home (from essentially waste materials) takes hours to brown+boil+sieve. It’s easier to just pick up a costco club pack of chicken/beef broth.
Yep, a friend had me over once around lunch time. They offered lunch, we opened the cupboards. I kid you not, 3 full cupboards of KD mac and cheese. Me, coming from parents who drilled into me the importance of a varied diet, was astounded that people lived like this.
Same here ... when I was a teen one of my friends in high school offered me to go to his house for lunch one day. I didn't think anything of it and expected a decent meal, even just KD which everyone thought was normal.
He put a piece of plain white bread on a plate, heated a can of gravy and poured a bit of it over the bread ... that was lunch for him ... and a can of coke to go with it.
A generation ago, my family and friends (we're all indigenous), many of the older people died of cancers related to intestine, gastro, bowel ... they were all average weight but many died of these terrible cancers because they all ate a lot of canned and processed foods. Generations now are all overweight and suffering from diabetes and heart disease.