Growing Up
Meadows18
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As a child, I can remember my parents cooking and never using processed foods. Always pure ingredients for cooking, baking, etc. Homemade everything. We were never overweight, played outside (did not sit in front of a TV, computer, etc.) and were happy. Parents always planned on weekends hikes thru parks, etc, with picnics and family friends. My sister and 2 brothers and I, always looked forward to these outings. (It was obvious, I can see now, that my parents were doing the right thing.)
People wonder why now, with all the processed food they are eating, why they gain weight. Maybe we should all think back to when we were children and try to incorporate what our parents did and do it ourselves with our own children.
People wonder why now, with all the processed food they are eating, why they gain weight. Maybe we should all think back to when we were children and try to incorporate what our parents did and do it ourselves with our own children.
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Amen! I grew up eating all of that processed junk and ended up being obese for most of my life. I have now been primal for a year now, and I have lost over 100 pounds this past year. I will not go back. This is the way we are supposed to eat.0
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i totally agree! i want to eat how my grandparents did. home cooked, natural and not to excess.0
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I recently bought some grassfed beef, and thought immediately "this is what hamburgers used to taste like growing up!" Big difference. Also, when you think about how many things have high fructose corn syrup in them now that didn't when we were kids! It's everywhere!0
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Growing up my dad was at sea a lot in the navy and my mom worked 12 hour shifts as a nurse, looked after 2 kids plus her ailing parents. We did not learn to eat healthy as often she did not have a lot of time and opted for quick meals. Our school canteen sold junk food and the cafeteria sold not so healthy meal options. We all had weight problems. I have made sure my son eats healthy, very few processed foods, no pop and limited junk food, I encourage him to be active in sports and try to lead by example. The processed food, quick meals fast thinking has certainly done a number on us all0
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As a child, I can remember my parents cooking and never using processed foods. Always pure ingredients for cooking, baking, etc. Homemade everything. We were never overweight, played outside (did not sit in front of a TV, computer, etc.) and were happy. Parents always planned on weekends hikes thru parks, etc, with picnics and family friends. My sister and 2 brothers and I, always looked forward to these outings. (It was obvious, I can see now, that my parents were doing the right thing.)
People wonder why now, with all the processed food they are eating, why they gain weight. Maybe we should all think back to when we were children and try to incorporate what our parents did and do it ourselves with our own children.
If I went back and tried to incoporate how my parents fed us growing up with my own kids, we'd actually start eating worse....
We were raised on shake and bake chicken, kraft dinner and kool-aide. I"m serious. We had very little variety growing up. My mom only knew how to cook so many things, (things that she herself grew up on) and thats what we had. Lots of white bread, white pasta with tomato sauce, canned veggies, shake and bake chicken, and dessert every night after dinner. And after lunch. We always had cookies or cake in our lunch box at school, with a container of kool-aide. My mom feels bad now and eats 100% differently then she did when we were growing up, but its what she knew. She only changed her eating habits because she was diagnosed with Celiacs.
But I was still fed better then my husband was. At home he was fed lots of frozen pizza, poptarts, sugar cereal, pop etc. He was also at his grandmas a lot, every day after school, and she would stuff them with baked goods. If they wanted 5 brownies, they got 5 brownies. His sister used to eat so much that she would actually get sick. So yeah, our childhood eating habits are nothing to be desired.
We have our own way of feeding our kids now though. Lots of fruits and veggies, very little out of a package, and dessert is a special treat, not a daily right.0 -
I grew up in the 60's and 70's and things were different then. You went to a grocery store and the processed foods were not that so obvious. I'm not saying I had no processed foods, the occasional TV dinner when parents went to a movie and we stayed home. Every Sunday my dad would make breakfast, bacon and eggs, and an early dinner (usually a roast or steak). It just seems my parents were following the Primal lifestyle and did not know it.0
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yup, that's why i love eating at my grandmothers! she grows most of her own vegetables & fruits, makes her own jam, and has decades of experience making delicious food. i will never forget a simple salad she made, her carrots were fantastic!
she grew up on a farm, too. still lives on it though it's not a functional one anymore.0 -
i spent 3 years living with my grandparents in alaska a couple years ago, and food wise, it's probably the best thing i ever did! they didn't have a microwave, and as i quickly became the cook (both had alzheimers, we'd never have eaten otherwise) it made me think about what i was going to cook and how. no getting home and defrosting something quick or shoving a ready meal in the microwave.
and my grandmother lived by one rule: a protein, a cooked vegetable, a starch and a salad on the table every evening. the only processed foods they ate were cookies, candy (bought weekly when i went shopping and usually gone by that night) and the occasional boxed cake mix - they were in their 90s, a bit of sugar wasn't going to do any damage. for 60+ years they'd eaten a pretty primal,homegrown diet and thrived!0 -
I'm hugely grateful for the example my parents and grandparents set for me. Most of our meals were homegrown meat and vegetables, Mum never even cooked anything like rice or pasta (just lots of potatoes) but I was still an overweight child even though I was very active and played a lot of sport.
Sadly my parents way of cooking has changed a lot and they now include a lot of rubbish in their diets (packet soups, cookies, white bread etc).
My maternal grandparents pretty much only ate what they grew on their farm - lamb/mutton, vegetables, fruit from their orchard, home preserves. My paternal grandparents had a suburban sized section by a beautiful beach so it was homegrown veg and grandad would row out in the dinghy he built to get whatever fish the family and his neighbours needed.
I remember at our small rural primary school in the early 80's there was only one child who had junk food in her lunchbox (chips, muesli bars etc) and no one envied her for it as she was also the only one with a mouthful of fillings!
I'm always hugely bemused by people that comment on how they 'made it from scratch' like it was a hugely novel concept - I've never used packet mixes/ready made meals etc in my life and I'm anti microwaves.0
