"Taxed and Spent" > wrote in message
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> 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 in Angela's health class, the kids were supposed to go through the
kitchen and make a list of all the unhealthy foods they found. She had a
checklist to go by. She also had to list all the foods she ate in a day.
That was 10th grade. Back then she refused to eat what most teens eat. Such
as burgers, pizza, chicken nuggets, etc. She would occasionally get steak
fries at a couple of restaurants. Her diet did change dramatically by senior
year and seemed kind of bad for a few years but now she is back to eating
tons of raw veggies and hemp seeds. She wasn't a typical kid/teen in terms
of diet but it is likely because she grew up eating mostly food cooked from
scratch and not much in the way of junk food or candy. That particular year,
she was big into smoothies and would try to see how much kale or spinach she
could get in there before it started tasting yucky.

The teacher didn't believe it when the box for "cake mix" was not checked
off.Apparently it is typical for most households to have cake mix in their
cupboards. The assignment was to show the kids just how crappy their
parent's diets were. She came home, showed me the paper and said, "Mrs. ____
isn't going to like you!" I had very few of the offending items from the
list in the house.