Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution is on!!!

Can you imagine how kids' problems with ADD, ADHD, behaviour issues, learning disabilities and so on would improve or go away altogether? I can tell you that it makes a difference! My son is dyslexic and supposedly has ADD. SInce we started eating better - he has more ability to cocentrate. Things don't seem like such a "BIG DEAL". And he doesn't seem to have as much difficulty with school work. Does he still have dyslexia? Yes - but he's able to cope with it better! Does he still have ADD? I'm honestly not sure I ever believed the diagnosis... I think it was a symptom of being freaked out by the dyslexia.

Loved the show. I am not surprised at what the school feeds the kids. I was so grossed out when he showed the kids how they make chicken nuggets:sick: . I don't eat chicken nuggets, and I don't eat hotdogs either, since I saw how they are made.:laugh:

I almost threw UP! never eating another chicken nugget in my life! :noway: :noway:

If you noticed, he said "thank god this isn't how they make them over here, but it's still a good experiment".

However, in the typical 'nugget', you can find something similar to the following:

Chicken, water, salt, modified corn starch, sodium phosphates, chicken broth powder (chicken broth, salt, and natural flavoring (chicken source)), seasoning (vegetable oil, extracts of rosemary, mono, di- and triglycerides (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triglycerides) , lecithin).

Battered and breaded with water, enriched bleached wheat flour (niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine_mononitrate#Occurrence_in_foods), riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, bleached wheat flour, modified corn starch, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrophosphate) , sodium aluminum phosphate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavening_agent#Chemical_leaveners) , monocalcium phosphate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocalcium_phosphate), calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, dried whey, corn starch.

Batter set in vegetable shortening. Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or partially hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or sunflower oil and/or corn oil). TBHQ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tert-Butylhydroquinone) and citric acid added to help preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydimethylsiloxane) added as an anti-foaming agent.

My husband and I watched the show last night and loved it. We have always cooked "odd" food, at least according to our friends. Odd food to a lot of them is the beet, egg plant, and other really cool vegetables. My kids actually like most vegetables, because we give them a chance to pick out what we eat and they help cook. My kids started cooking with me at age 5, and I mean real cooking, like making homemade soups, meatloafs(we usually grind our own meats), and chicken meals. Unfortunately we also have eaten a lot of the processed stuff too, time and money(loss of jobs or hours) can play a lot into that.

My kids do know where their food comes from (meats and their vegetables/fruit). We have made sure they that understand the gracery store is not where food comes from. Unfortunately many parents have not taught their kids that or may do not know themselves how food gets to the store. I think Jamie's show is helping these kids to really learn that lesson. My husband and I have always kidded that most families could not survive if we had a major disaster and had to depend on our own skills to get food. Sadly this show is proving that to be more reality than just a joke.

I do believe that this is one reality show worth watching with the whole family.