Are you kidding me?? Is this really true? What is the purpose of it? Why???
Parents, these are your children, their life was entrusted to you. You are responsible for their healthy upbringing. Pay attention. Are you seeing what is happening?
Marketing!! Pervasive marketing to have you feel like you cannot get vegetables into their diet so the companies that offer processed foods think they can do it better. Did you bite?
Kids will acquire a taste for what ever they like and it will now be boxes and cans?
Parents, please take a lesson here, you can do it better. You can feed your children what they should be eating rather than giving that responsibility off to someone else.
I would not like to see the world in ten years when kids go to the grocery store and shopping only put cans and boxes in their carts.
This is a 360 degree turn the wrong way. Everyone should be eating fresh food and the companies are saying no, eat mine. Freeze dried cauliflower is not better for you than fresh.
Are you following this? Do not follow the manufacturers latest train of tagging a socially correct word to market themselves in their slumping production. Stand up for independent farms, clean food, healthy food and taking care of your kids.
So what are you going to put into their lunch box, now freeze-dried vegetables?? Where is the nutritious value in that? Perhaps the demand should be ‘show me’ the availability of vitamins in real food vs. freeze-dried or canned. Ask, stand up, and see what you really get for an answer.
Healthy kids eat healthy foods, period.
joshuahrst7
September 6, 2011
This is very true as it seems that the consumer market has pushed cheaper items both in price and quality. What might be some common ways families would be able to eat more fresh foods on a fixed income where many markets seem to push higher and higher prices on such items?
Dr. Jeanette Gallagher
September 7, 2011
Many people today are on fixed incomes and it seems they do not have the means to eat fresh food. Here are a few tips:
Eat what is in season. The supply to the store is usually high and the prices lower. So if yams are on sale, get those and cross broccoli off the list if it is not on sale.
If the store is having a frozen food sale, stock up on boxes of frozen vegetables and do not use them until you cannot supply fresh items in a week. I know the stores around us have a frozen sale in the summer. I know I can get a few things on sale that are fresh, so I purchase them and stock the freezer for the fall when I do not have fresh.
Look at the farmers markets in your area. Ask the farmers individually if they would discount their items that do not sell that day at the end of the day. If so, come back then or wait until the price is marked down. They will not advertise this option, so be discreet with your request. Tell them your situation and how you wish to give your family fresh foods but your budget is limited. Remember, many farmers markets take food stamps, ask.
You can also ask the grocery store if they would let you know when they stock fresh items and dispose of the older produce. Ask them if you can come then and purchase at a reduced price rather than throw out food. Just ask.
In all cases, you need to communicate your needs and see if these people will assist you, they should most of the time. Do not be discouraged if they say no, ask another person.