I was watching Jamie Oliver on the Food Network last night. His latest project is to go to the statistically most obese town in Britain (Rotherham) and try to get them to start cooking healthy meals at home instead of relying on greasy, fat-laden take away. The plan: teach 8 people 10 recipes and have them teach those recipes to their friends, who then promise to teach those recipes to their friends, and so on.
The thing that amazed me: there was a young woman who has a couple of kids (oldest looked about 5 or 6) and they'd NEVER eaten a home-cooked meal in their lives. They eat nothing but packaged food and take-out. I was floored!!! I didn't think it was possible to have never prepared a single meal for your own kids. And, yes, the kids were both overweight.
The thing that amazed me: there was a young woman who has a couple of kids (oldest looked about 5 or 6) and they'd NEVER eaten a home-cooked meal in their lives. They eat nothing but packaged food and take-out. I was floored!!! I didn't think it was possible to have never prepared a single meal for your own kids. And, yes, the kids were both overweight.