This evening’s “healthy eating and meal planning class” exposed my role as teacher and activist. I now know that the fine line between these two identities is constructed. I cannot deny that teachers are activists.
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The Fine Line of Preachiness
The Truth About Agave Nectar
Throw out the agave nectar!
If you’re like me and sugar addiction is all-to-present in your life, you may be equally saddended to learn the following news: agave nectar is no better than other processed foods that rely on intelligent marketing and good-intentioned folks trying to eat healthier and pay the extra cost.
Session 1 Complete!
Last night ended the first 4-week “Healthy Eating and Meal Planning” class and it was a grand success! The lesson focused on meal planning strategies and the meal was pizza – always a favorite dish to make. For our first class we served 5 families from the community surrounding Floyd Light Middle School. Throughout the past four weeks I spoke with different families to glean their thoughts on the class as a whole. Some people really enjoyed the critical food literacy and others (especially younger participants) loved cooking dinner. Aside from my own goals I set for the class, there were a number of unexpected results.
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Serving Size Matters
I’ve never been one to count calories. In fact, I’ve always been critical of those who do. It seems like the ones who count are the ones eating bad food. Though, truth be told, I’ve also been thin most of my life and the weight-gaining issue has not been of much concern. That said, I’m at a point in my life where I consume so little processed foods that I don’t know where to find the numbers. And that’s my main critique – if you eat food that has no label (i.e. whole foods) – you don’t have to focus on the caloric intake.
But my world is not the real world.
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