On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:31:45 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>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.

Too bad you guys didn't read the preceding postings. This is covered
upstream.
Janet US