Find Food tips cooking ideas and recipes.. blog you way to better food
Wise Up !!
Am I alone in thinking that the high street shop is getting very Junk Food oriented?
Today we have a mass of Junk food places that we could take the children for a meal, these shops are profiting from children, causing them allot of harm and only caring about their profit margin, children can tell you the names of these places just by the logo, being totally absent minded as to the real product they are consuming and what harm it is doing.
Some parents are even worse, being totally naive as to what they are really doing to their children, saying that they are just giving their children ‘what they want,’ huh? Since when does a child know what it wants, would you say ‘yes’ if your child wanted to destroy your house or let the tyres down on a neighbours car ? No! I don’t think so, because you know the consequences of those actions and you as a parent want to protect your child the best you can, in a safe environment where they would not cause themselves or others any harm.
Then I guess the question is ‘why don’t they protect them from the damage too much junk food can do to them?’ The answer I believe to be the correct one is that parents don’t know the problems it could lead to later in life (and believe me, I use the word ‘later’ very loosely), as they were never taught basic cooking skills and as a result were bought up on readymade ‘convenience foods’ or they believe that they ‘don’t have time’ to make proper dinners. This is the constant story that I keep hearing the more I delve into the world of food, and to be honest, I don’t believe a word of it.
Today, we live in a society that usually requires both parents to be working, which I can understand is very hard juggling work with children and household chores. The other part of society are the ‘single parent family’s’ , where life must be ten times harder than it ever need to be. These problems are all contributing to a nation that is getting worse for its health, and will not improve until we do something about it, installing new morals into the family, and I believe food can be a very good start to that structure.
Let’s start with the basics of the truth, the stuff that people are too afraid to say for fear of reprisals from those that know very little about eating right and the harm junk food is really doing. These junk food places are destroying your children’s lives because parents are letting them, taking them to these shops keeps them in business and selling what the ‘customer demands’ , the power of the people is the strongest parliament there is and unless we fix this they will stay in business causing allot of harm along the way, the truth is if you asked them, they will say ‘we are giving the customer what they want’ and as long as they can make a profit, they don’t care.
I have already explained the reasons why we live like this today, now I am going to tell you the possible solutions. The first thing we as a nation need to do is re-install home cooking values back into the home. I believe the method for this is not only to target the children, but also the parents, to teach them new skills, show them how quick and easy a homemade meal can really be using quick and easy foods as a basis, those being pasta, pies, salads, stir fry, and simple quick to cook meats like lamb chops, mince, and chicken breasts, of course there are lots more, but I can’t list them all here. These are foods that take next to no preparation and can be made up into a meal and cooked very quickly with hardly any fuss.
Food is obviously more exciting than that, and we need to show recipes to the children whilst they are young, making cooking an essential part of schools curriculum with full exams on the subject, I can’t remember the amount of times my daughter has had cooking at school and disappointingly bought home pizza or cakes, what is this teaching them?, they know nothing of food, it is teaching them that foods with salt and sugar are things you can eat the whole of your life without any consequences.
So to sum up, the point I am making is that food needs to be educated to people of all ages, so that at least if they choose to ignore these important guidelines, they are making it by choice and not because they are naive to food. If there were ever an education system about food to teach people about the consequences, high street ‘restaurants’ and shops that deal in the junk food market will soon disappear leaving us with a fitter healthier nation. It is my pledge that recipebite.co.uk will be dedicated to resolve this issue to try and reach the most amount of people it can.
Total Comments 7
Comments
 |  I personally dont eat at any of them places. As a kid I did but not very often. KFC ive always hated as my friends like chicken and wanted to go there but I despised it lol They apparently offer fruit at McDonalds now, I actually wonder how much they charge for it and I bet the portion is minute. Children do need to understand these places are killing them over time and a proper meal would be a healthier choice. I agree and hope recipebite.co.uk helps everyone that ever arrives here. |
  |
| |  Hopefully this is eventually recipebite's aim, not to put them out of business, but to 'make' them change what they are selling and who to |
| |
| | This will be a hard task but maybe some letters wrote or signed or something to that effect. It is possible as soon as this fantastic cooking and recipe community flourishes. |
| |
| |  Macdonalds here are boasting about their healthier alternatives, which at the same time highlights the unhealthiness of its other products. |
| |
| |  OK, can't believe I didn't see this earlier! Q1: Is there any way to escape the products pumped into our food chain? Q2: If you were informed of the ingredients unlisted and the processed involved in food preparation, would it make you think twice? Q3: How do you tackle the government on this task when so much has been spent on making it the way it is, and large international food companies continue to donate so ingredients don't get banned making their production costs higher? Lets get a rant on.... I've a few scary facts on this, and is close to my heart.... The whole essence of the restaurant I want to open goes against everything else out there.... scary times! |
| |
| | What about the supermarkets? How can half a supermarket pizza contain 600-800 calories? It (should) just be dough, tomato sauce, a mixture of vegetables and/or meat. Did they drag it through a puddle of lard while delivering it??? And don;t get me started on supermarket own brand olive oil based spread. Somerfield (they're my local  ) have an awful own brand version. its bright yellow! |
| |
| |  McDonalds did a promotion with 24 Hour Fitness so that people who signed up for gym memberships got certificates for free salads and fruit. The problem is they offer non fat dressing with hydrogenated oils and produce that has been washed in "fruit fresh" solution to keep it from going brown. You don't really know how old the product is and it doesn't taste like real fruit & veg. Hubby and I eat no fast food, especially after seeing the flick Super Size Me. |
| |
Recent Blog Entries by saltedm8
- Would you sacrifice a badger to save a cow ? (11-Jul-2008)
- Wise Up !! (23-Jun-2008)
- Drying Fresh Herbs (17-Jun-2008)
