Dear __* Letters

Dear ____*

* Body- please stop being so sore. I would like to move again

* Kitchen- I wish you would do the dishes all by yourself

*Money- stop causing me such headaches

* CA- how I miss you :(

* NY- Thank you for having such a mild winter with almost NO snow, but please be sensitive this summer as well. Not too hot and humid ok?

*Neighbors- please don't be upset if I am jumping in the morning, Im trying to exercise

* Spencer- I am so proud of how hard you are working in school. Keep up the good work. You are an amazing husband and my absolute Best Friend

*Alan- I think about you all the time and miss you so much. I hope you are well. You can visit me in my dreams any time. I enjoyed that :)

Living with a food snob

Last week I had a really good money week at work so I asked spencer if we could go out that night for dinner. We decided to go to this new place called the Everready Diner

Anyway as you can see it is a very retro place we both wanted to check out. We didn't expect it to gourmet food or anything close. 

I ordered a pasta which came with a salad and Spencer ordered a Barbecue Chicken sandwich. 

When my salad came out all spencer could do was criticize everything about my salad. The onions were sliced but still stuck to gather. The mushrooms were cut very uneven, some were thin and some were practically in a half. Then the tomatoes were not ripe. lol. Now all of these complaints were kept to ourselves because we are not those people to be complaining about everything. I mostly four the whole thing funny. Now that spencer know the Right way to do things, he notices when its done wrong. 

Then the pasta was mediocre, and his sandwich tasted, "like it came from a bag," his words exactly. 

WE still ate and gave a reasonable tip but decided that we would probably not go back there. The milk shake we had was yummy, and the atmosphere was fun. :)

Spencer just chuckled and said the only was he was probably going to impressed with a meal is if we spent about $100. LOL well let me tell you, this is NOT happening anytime soon. :) But, I'm sure it will, just not yet.

We laughed at how Spencer is becoming such a food snob. It doesn't help that he eats gourmet meals at school everyday.

Food education in schools

     With Spencer being in Culinary school there is a lot of food talk at our house. The subject came up about nutrition and cooking and how it is not something we are really taught in school.

We began to wonder why. Why is Health something you only take for a semester in high school and all they really talk about is STDs, but  PE is something required to take all though school?
      It has been proven that exercise is not to only key factor to staying healthy or fit, but a good diet also. If food is something we need everyday from the time we are born to the day we die why are we not taught this in school.
O it's up to the parents to teach their kids. Well that is a load of crap because we all know it doesn't really happen. I am not saying everyone is a bad parent but it is something over looked by many people. I think children should be exposed to food education from the time they enter school. I already have a system figured out too.

When the kids enter school. k-3 they spend 45 min a week with a nutrition teacher or chef teacher and go over basic fruit and vegetable identification. The teacher would work with the whole school alternating days kind of how the music programs are run now. The kids would be able to see the different foods and try them. It would be really fun and educational. no homework involved just exposure to food. Them when they get older like 4-6 grade they could have a co-cooricular club that is a cooking club to get these kids using ingredients and learning how to cook things for themselves.

In jr high and high school they could require a nutrition class or some kind to accompany the PE education. There nutrition class would also introduce healthy recipes for kids.

My plan might have a few bugs in it but i think it sounds pretty dang good.

I mean I don't understand why the states have put so much emphasis on art or music education  and 0 emphasis on food education when like i said previously food is essential.

I am happy my husband is learning all of this stuff now so when we have kids we can teach them. Part of it is the health benefit but also just being able to be self sufficient and making things from scratch even if they are brownies ( which by the way I am about to make by scratch and I never have).

I really feel like my eyes are being opened to me in the world of food. I am infer more eye opening experiences since Spencer just started school, but I am enjoying my second hand education. I think learning about food is very important and it is fun too.