tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152982033705241504.post633552795471701849..comments2021-09-08T01:40:04.397-07:00Comments on An Inexpensive, Healthy Food Adventure: Learning To Eat RightColleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952908173966773292noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152982033705241504.post-17666857642939120362011-12-22T21:07:00.250-08:002011-12-22T21:07:00.250-08:00i as of last week or the week before read an almos...i as of last week or the week before read an almost exact copy of your blog in the city paper it was odd that they made some of the same points you did only months beforel.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14225512013062870060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152982033705241504.post-77205417701944095672011-09-02T06:29:50.292-07:002011-09-02T06:29:50.292-07:00You make a lot of valid points. I know the salad ...You make a lot of valid points. I know the salad of which you speak, it does need gobs of usually unhealthy salad dressing to make it somewhat edible. As for canned vegetable, I just don't get it. They are actually more expensive than frozen and full of salt.<br />Angel Food Ministries includes a recipe booklet with your food package each month. Sadly though, much of the food you receive is processed and there are few vegetables and even fewer fruits.<br />I wasn't aware that food stamps cover seeds! That is a fact that needs to be broadcast, especially in the more rural areas of the state where shopping is difficult.Colleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00952908173966773292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152982033705241504.post-21517768693379732062011-08-31T12:47:36.661-07:002011-08-31T12:47:36.661-07:00Speaking as someone you know has tossed a bunch of...Speaking as someone you know has tossed a bunch of school lunches... It isn't just that it's salad vs. pudding. You fed us salad (and tried to feed us vegetables) but at school I wouldn't even eat the veggies I'd nom at home.<br /><br />When salad is a chunk of flavorless iceburg, a cardboard tomato, a chunk of (old) carrot, and a floppy (skin-on) slice of cucumber, no one's going to eat that without a boat-load of dressing. Same with overcooked, from-a-can veggies. A lot of it is quality--which is a budget and supply issue, I'm sure.<br /><br />But yeah, cooking, shopping, healthy food isn't really covered anywhere. You have to hunt it down. Maybe we need *real* home ec back in schools... Maybe they need to provide (and require) a basic nutrition/ food budgeting class with food stamps/ WIC.<br /><br />Also--it's possible (though I admit not likely) that the people in SC are growing their own veggies--there's a lot of backyard gardening out in the poorer neighborhood/ towns. I know in wyoming (where the university extension service puts out a nutrition flier every month for SNAP recips) people on food stamps (and people in general) seemed to buy a more even mix of veggies and staples.<br /><br />But then, veggies don't grow well where I was, and most people that aren't students were coming in from waaaay out there--they only bought meat when it was less than the cost to raise their own. You get the opposite in Charleston, I think--it's often cheaper and easier to grow a couple rows of collards and some random veg (seeds are covered by food stamps, though I don't think they advertise that well), and tougher to grow chickens or cows.<br /><br />Sorry, rambling.j.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05488121165040555447noreply@blogger.com