Food

Watching the food stamp video in class made me feel very conscious about how much money I been spend on food. For another class this semester I had to do a spending track report for the month of September. At the end of the month my tracker showed that I spent around $350 on food. Majority of the time I usually eat out or I pick up fast food because I only have an hour break from school to work. Seeing how so many of the people who rely on food stamps do not even get half of what I spend on food is very upsetting. How can we expect families and their children to have a healthy diet if they cannot afford it? There definitely needs to be a change in how food stamps are distributed and how much each family receives. Families and especially children need healthier options for food.

In the video I did like the idea of how they taught the children about what they were eating and how to prepare meals using those items. I wish someone would have done that with me when I was little because I did not start eating vegetables until about a couple of years ago. My mom never forced me to eat vegetables when I was younger so I always thought they would taste gross. So many children now a days have such poor diets because they eat nothing but fried food, pizza, and burgers. Parents need to expand their food choices by introducing fruits and vegetables to their meals. I also think teaching children how to prepare meals when they are young will help them want to choose cooking a meal rather than just eating fried food or picking up a pizza. There should be more programs in schools that support this idea of teaching children about what they eat and how to prepare it.