Food Revolution

Before we cancel our cable again, I decided I had to check out this new show- Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution.

"Welcome to the world of American school food, it's shocking!"

Jamie Oliver is a british chef who has decided to come to the US to try to change some of our eating habits. This first episode was focused on children and school lunches. He visited Huntington, West Virginia, the "unhealthiest" city in the US.

When he arrived and went to a local Elementary school he was met with some very defensive and offended lunch ladies and some students who were being served PIZZA and CHOCOLATE MILK for breakfast!

Everything the school served was processed. His message to the parents of these children: "If I were you, I would be really pissed off!"

The head cook Alice Gue said "He's thinking we should do more 'fresh', there's no way".

Jamie went to a local church to finally find one person in the city who was on his side.
"How we treat our bodies matters to God... Honor God with your body". The pastor Steve Willis explains to his congregation that the CDC reports Huntington as the most obese city in the world. he can go through the church directory and point out person after person who has diabetes, other diseases, recently had heart attacks, etc.

The end of the show cut off due to the breaking news on the healthcare bill, but I set the DVR to record the entire show on Friday on ABC.

Spring is here!!

Amy Butler

I had the pleasure of meeting the very famous Amy Butler!

She is an artist who designs fabrics and sewing patterns. She just so happens to be from right here in Central Ohio, but her fabric is sold worldwide.

She visited a local fabric store and I was able to go with my mom and meet her! I even bought one of her books to have her sign it!

Snow Days!

We are enjoying our FOURTH snow day of the year today!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Happy V-Day!

The girls have "crazy" hair for Awana tonight!

Corey's craft project! :)


Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day! Corey and I celebrated on Saturday by going to the #1 ranked vegetarian friendly restaurant in Columbus. It is called Dragonfly and we went for their lunch buffet. Really, the buffet was the bread, soup and salad, then you still pick your entree. It was very good, and I was pleasantly surprised at how good the vegan items were also. Corey tried the "Mac & Cheese" which was actually couscous. I tried the Vegetable Risotto. It was Yummy!! Very expensive for just lunch, but we really enjoyed it and it was nice to have a quiet meal, just the two of us!


Corey at Dragonfly

New blog

Since I am overloading this "family" blog with a lot of articles, I decided to create a new blog!
It is still under construction, but here is the info-

It is called: HarmLESS Beauty
LESS toxins
LESS carcinogens
LESS hormone altering chemicals

Beauty should be harmless not harmful!

www.harmLESSbeauty.blogspot.com

Scientists 'hide formula risk'

In case 100 reasons to breastfeed are not enough, here is another one.
This article below says that researchers often "shy" away from talking about the health risks associated with formula.

The article states "“This is not helping properly informed health professionals and mothers,” Dr Smith said. “We looked at the findings of nearly 80 authoritative studies, all of which highlighted that formula-fed babies tend to be at higher risk of poor health than children fed on breast milk.""

For the full article see:

http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20091003-18890.html