On 10/30/2020 10:39 AM, 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.Â* 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?

Did you read where students kept a two week log of meals and snacks? The
audit of pantry? Part of a class project. I have no idea how many but
a lot of homes with kids would have cake mix instead of from scratch.