Comments on: Hunger Action Week Wrap-up http://www.uwkcblog.org/2010/02/01/hunger-action-week-wrap-up-2/ Choose the Way: United Way of King County's blog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:06:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: foodonabudget http://www.uwkcblog.org/2010/02/01/hunger-action-week-wrap-up-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1179 foodonabudget Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:09:31 +0000 http://www.uwkcblog.org/?p=2766#comment-1179 Wow! was that a challenge. Food at it's most basic. It took time to plan and decide what exactly you wanted to eat for the week and no extras or room for those last minute cravings or indulges. Had to look in the paper for the best store to shop for the best bargains. Those people who don't have a car-what do they do? Take a bus or get help from a friend or a neighbor and shop for the month? I remember when I was a kid and our family was on food stamps. We would shop once a month and take a cart home from the grocery store and bring it back of course. It was a gallon of ice cream for a family of five for the month-when the food stamps came. Maybe some apples and there wasn't any food programs at school-so it was peanut butter and jelly for lunch every day and oatmeal and powdered skim milk every morning. And nothing, nothing went to waste. Sometimes we would eat soup that had soured, because we couldn't let anything go to wast.No worries about obesity in our family.Funny in an odd sort of way, but true Wow! was that a challenge. Food at it’s most basic. It took time to plan and decide what exactly you wanted to eat for the week and no extras or room for those last minute cravings or indulges. Had to look in the paper for the best store to shop for the best bargains. Those people who don’t have a car-what do they do? Take a bus or get help from a friend or a neighbor and shop for the month? I remember when I was a kid and our family was on food stamps. We would shop once a month and take a cart home from the grocery store and bring it back of course. It was a gallon of ice cream for a family of five for the month-when the food stamps came. Maybe some apples and there wasn’t any food programs at school-so it was peanut butter and jelly for lunch every day and oatmeal and powdered skim milk every morning. And nothing, nothing went to waste. Sometimes we would eat soup that had soured, because we couldn’t let anything go to wast.No worries about obesity in our family.Funny in an odd sort of way, but true

]]> By: Olga http://www.uwkcblog.org/2010/02/01/hunger-action-week-wrap-up-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1167 Olga Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:04:24 +0000 http://www.uwkcblog.org/?p=2766#comment-1167 You are right on. This is exactly the point we were trying to make the whole last week. Having been raised in Russia it was easy for me to take the challenge. I talked to many of my friends who have come to the United States from different countries and all of them said that eating on $22 a day for a family of 4 is not a big deal, as long as you know how to cook. With experience comes creativity and ability to substitute missing ingredients. I agree with you that many people in America rely on prepackaged and processed foods or partially prepped foods, all of them are much much more expensive. Consider, for example, the cost of one garlic head of approx $0.30 vs. garlic powder at about $4.00. You are right on. This is exactly the point we were trying to make the whole last week. Having been raised in Russia it was easy for me to take the challenge. I talked to many of my friends who have come to the United States from different countries and all of them said that eating on $22 a day for a family of 4 is not a big deal, as long as you know how to cook. With experience comes creativity and ability to substitute missing ingredients. I agree with you that many people in America rely on prepackaged and processed foods or partially prepped foods, all of them are much much more expensive. Consider, for example, the cost of one garlic head of approx $0.30 vs. garlic powder at about $4.00.

]]> By: kitchensink http://www.uwkcblog.org/2010/02/01/hunger-action-week-wrap-up-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1164 kitchensink Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:51:43 +0000 http://www.uwkcblog.org/?p=2766#comment-1164 The Challenge also made me think about how easy it is to rely on processed food even with "homecooking". That style of eating, coupled with fast food options or the typical American work-a-holic lifestyle and the lack of home ec taught in many schools anymore...makes me wonder, who is teaching the younger generations to cook? I know that some parents make this a priority, but I doubt the majority of young people are learning much about cooking. Am I wrong? The Challenge also made me think about how easy it is to rely on processed food even with “homecooking”. That style of eating, coupled with fast food options or the typical American work-a-holic lifestyle and the lack of home ec taught in many schools anymore…makes me wonder, who is teaching the younger generations to cook?

I know that some parents make this a priority, but I doubt the majority of young people are learning much about cooking.

Am I wrong?

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