Taxed and Spent wrote:
>
> On 10/30/2020 7:27 AM, Graham wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 07:17:46 -0700, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/30/2020 7:17 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>> On 2020-10-30 9:52 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>>> On Friday, October 30, 2020 at 9:48:54 AM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>>>> On 2020-10-30 5:22 a.m., Julie Bove wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> beyond the 9th grade. It wasn't required in High School.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> We studied that stuff in a subject/class called "Health" in the late
> >>>>>>> 70's/early 80's.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I took that in combination with Sex Ed. Again, more warnings about
> >>>>>> drugs. We learned first aid as well.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Angela's health class involved a diet section. She had to list her meals
> >>>>>> and snacks for two weeks. She also had to go through the kitchen and
> >>>>>> look for offensive items like things with HFCS. The teacher did not
> >>>>>> believe her report. The only offensive foods she found were molasses,
> >>>>>> corn syrup and various forms of sugar. Her breakfast at the time was
> >>>>>> usually raw baby carrots or an apple. She waited until she got home to
> >>>>>> eat lunch because her assigned lunch time was 2:00 pm.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When I went to the parent's night, the teacher lit into me. She couldn't
> >>>>>> believe that I didn't have things like cake mix in the house. *shrug*
> >>>>> A teacher lit into you because you didn't have things like cake mix???
> >>>>>
> >>>>> BULLSHIT !!!
> >>>>
> >>>> Although Julie writes poorly, my takeaway was that the teacher thought
> >>>> Julie was lying when she stated she did not have cake mix in her house.
> >>>
> >>> In that case, I will have to assume she had experienced dealing with
> >>> Julie and knew that she is factually challenged.
> >>>
> >>> FWIW. I do not have a cake mix in the house. There has not been one here
> >>> for more than 10 years, and not many before that. We really do not eat
> >>> much in the line of process or prepared foods. We used to have the odd
> >>> jar of pasta sauce or can of soup or baked beans. Even those were rarely
> >>> used.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> How would the topic of cake mix even come up?
> >
> > Because her teacher didn't believe that she just ate carrots and apples.
> >
>
> And how would THAT even come up?

True. Whenever I went to my daughter's school "parents night"
the subject of food at home never came up.