My kid to eat vegetables

Today I share a post that shows how hard it is to get kids to eat real food instead of processed. It was Erin's blog Garden Now - Think Later!

She is dedicated to a sustainable lifestyle, please check out her blog to see her wonderful success stories.

Ruralrose said...

This is something I too fight with everyday - mine is 16 now and if he won't eat what I cook he can cook what he wants to eat and it is most often processed foods. There is just no fight in me anymore, tears, anger and worry make no difference. I do have a few tips of things I did that helped. A hand held blender will be your greatest ally.

1. tell them they won't like it, especially when they will
2. mash beans into a dip for chips, add salsa too
3. veg soup with potato blend smooth
4. tomato sauce for pizza and spaghetti use lots of vegs and blend
5. garlic toast is always a hit
6. pesto sauce
7. nachos with pepper rings, salsa and beans
8. homemade hotsauce
9. pickles

10. don't underestimate the nutrition of spices and oils, use lots of them

11. roasted nuts and seed, hemp hearts, nut butters and homemade jam

12. remember what they don't like tonight they could like tomorrow night, lol ;)

My heart goes out to you. I still resent cooking my meal to please him, cutting it into tiny pieces, cutting off all the fat, leaving out the onions only to have him not want to eat it. Then after growing, processing and preparing the food, I have to scrap it off the plate uneaten into the chicken's bucket and wash the plate as well as the pot and plate necessary for him to cook and eat something else. Not to mention I have to go to town and buy the processed food I don't like, then I have to deal with the packaging I'm against, all the while concerned for the health of my son. Well you can see this is a sore spot, thanks for letting me vent - Good luck, peace for all

Hunger Should Not Be

Hunger scares me. I've known it and never want to again. More people are hungry than are not. While fear motivates my actions, the woman who writes this blog, agariangrrl is motivated to correcting the problems in our food before they escalate. She understands the science and interweavings of farming, food systems and biological technology. Her posts are short and make difficult information easy to understand, then she links it to a scientific link if you want to learn more about the topic. We can't hide in fear, with people like this posting on the internet, ignorance can no longer an excuse not to fight for food security for all. I would like to share her last post with you here, I hope this is ok, these are her words not mine.

Hunger should not be
"Hunger would not have to be – this is not a new finding. The World Food Report confirms this statement in spite of the alarming findings it has to make. Not later than after the arousing hunger revolts two years ago, the shameful hunger problem should have disappeared from the globe. Instead the number of hungry people has not shrunk but has drastically increased. At the same time, the report shows a way out of the crisis: Reinforcement of the food supply on a local basis, observing all at once the regional conditions, the ecological handling of the resources and among others the unrestricted access to seeds.
An essential aspect relating to the question of such an unrestricted access is the question of the reusability of the applied seed sorts: People must be able, independently from the industrial producers of seeds like Monsanto or Syngenta, to cultivate its own food. Sovereignty of food is a fundamental right, it must be a fundamental freedom of mankind".

Read A Crisis-Proof Agriculture for the Fight against Hunger and Poverty
by Reinhard Koradi, Switzerland

taken from www.agrariangrrl.blogspot.com

I tried to put the link in the text 3 times, obviously I need help doing this, the link on the title works go visit her blog.

Peace for all

CORRECTION: Hey Rural Rose,

That is a quote from Reinhard Koradi on my blog, not my own words. Link can be found directly here

http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=911

Thanks
agrariangrrl

Food Security in Doubt

Read the whole article here.

Southern California is called the bread basket of the continent. They have been suffering now from many years of drought and only 10 percent normal water resources. We can't ignore the fact that food will have to come from abroad to fill our plates. Start now, buy one save one, buy your seed for next spring. Prepare for the future, what have you got to lose.

Update

Terry is home again. Thank you for all the well wishes you sent. We went to visit her at the hospital last night and I took some pictures. The quality and lighting aren't up to the usual standards posted by you bloggers, but it is a glimpse of the scenery to the closest town. Peace




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Winter Gardens

Today Suzy at Chiot's Run posted of the "death blow" in gardening. It was brilliant to show the contrast pictures of summer to late fall.

Living in Canada, putting up all the vegetables eaten through the winter, I never seem to have that moment to put the garden to bed.for the winter I am sure it happens, between the canning and the dishes and sowing seed for next spring. recognizable the instant it is too late. Perhaps I am a lazy gardener fooling myself into thinking a dead garden can be beautiful, but I leave the skeletons on all my plants to stand in the snow in ode to the plants which produced the food which now sustains my family. It also is a good marker in spring for where plants are, also the dead plant material makes the perfect fertilizer for the plant that produced it. The other benefit is being able to watch the little birds frolic in the stems taking so much delight in finding seeds to eat when everywhere is covered with now. Thanks for the post and the chance in share my ideas, peace for all

Packrat

Today I am chasing this packrat out of my house. Apples, roosters, 36 liters of wine and pumpkins to deal with and I am done. Then I will be back to stalking you again, all winter, lol. Peace for all

for Terry

My neighbor and dear friend Terry is in the hospital tonight. I hope you have your laptop sweetie so you can see these pictures of your home. We are all waiting here for your return, you know all my prayers are with you!

H1N1 Vaccination Condemnation

BELL TOLLING for the Swine Flu (CAMPANAS por la gripe A) subtitled from ALISH on Vimeo.

This is very long and I must admit hard to see. I cried so hard I had to stop watching and come back to it. Please take the time to watch this important video.