Slowly killing our kids

I haven't been updating the blog, so busy and sigh... sick! I love my little germ factories though :) But I am off this week and one of my goals is to update my blog everyday.  Today I watched this TED video. http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html

It just really reenforces the fact that we really need to rethink how we are feeding our kids and what we are teaching them about food.  To be 12 years old and weigh 350 lbs??? To not know how to COOK?? I am even more grateful to my mother for insisting that we learn to cook and to have to cook at least one meal a week for our family. I know I haven't been the healthiest individual but I am sure trying to change that and to raise my child to love fresh food.  I truly believe that if you give kids healthy food they WILL eat it.  I took fruit trays with greek yogurt for the kids Easter parties at school last week.  The teacher told me that the fruit tray was the only thing that got eaten completely out of all the treats they had and they were fighting over it.  FRUIT! not the cookies or cakes or candy but the FRUIT! Things like cookies and candy and cake and pizza, fast food used to be treats and now they are an everyday thing.  We really need to go back to eating healthy with those treats treated as treats or we will be responsible for killing our kids and grandkids.  And currently Angel eats lunch at school.  It is easy for me and I kinda assumed that it being school meant that they would be feeding her good food but as I do more and more research on it, they are in fact not feeding the kids healthy food. Of course I don't know about her school itself, maybe they are feeding them good food, but I think I would rather be safe than sorry and I will be packing her lunches from now on, so then I at least know what is going into her body.