Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution - local action

[350kitty]

I've been watching "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" on ABC for the past 3 weeks. I'm very excited about the changes he is trying to introduce in school cafeterias (real food instead of highly processed food high in fat, salt, sugar). Has anyone else been watching it?

I was particularly excited about his efforts to teach some high school students how to cook a healthy meal. Do you know of any programs like that in the Santa Rosa area? If there were such a program, I think I'd like to volunteer to help teach cooking.

What do you think of the show? I can't wait to see the rest of it.

[lynn]

Kitty...I saw the show last week....Yeah, it's pretty darn cool what he is doing...He's got the energy and the vision to do it...
I don't know if anyone is doing something like this here...But they sure should...I see lot's of kids eating junk and getting fat...I see many fat parents...usually the mothers...

[Eteach]

There is a program called WOW - worth our weight that teaches students to be chefs.
If you have experience and time they may need you as a volunteer. It is located over by Montgomery High School.

[350kitty]

Thank you! That's good to know. There's a program that works with at-risk kids. I might try to teach cooking there.

[Blue Feather]

I love that show...I would love for Jamie to come here....what a cool guy!:heart:


I've been watching "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" on ABC for the past 3 weeks. I'm very excited about the changes he is trying to introduce in school cafeterias (real food instead of highly processed food high in fat, salt, sugar). Has anyone else been watching it?

I was particularly excited about his efforts to teach some high school students how to cook a healthy meal. Do you know of any programs like that in the Santa Rosa area? If there were such a program, I think I'd like to volunteer to help teach cooking.

What do you think of the show? I can't wait to see the rest of it.

[ROME]

If your interested in Jamie Oliver, sign the petition, for the Jamie Oliver Food revolution. look on line to sign. Rome

[someguy]

I think its great to encourage people to eat whole foods instead of processed foods. That said, I am not a fan of Jamie Oliver. I saw a show of his in which he took a bunch of little kids (maybe 6 or 7 years old) and showed them a whole chicken. He cut it into pieces (breast, wing, etc.), and said to the kids, "Those are the good parts." Then he showed them the carcass and leftover bits and was like, "Eww, isn't this gross and disgusting? What do you think we do with this?" To which the impressionable kids all chorused, "Throw it away!" Jamie told the kids that he was going to show them how to make the gross leftover chicken parts edible again.

Jamie then proceeded to take the bones, giblets, connective tissue, and skin, and grind them up in a food processor, yielding a disgusting-looking paste. After grossing the kids out with it some more, he added some stabilizer and flavoring agents, formed it into patties, breaded them, and fried them in a pan. Jamie told the kids that this is how chicken nuggets and patties are made. The purpose of this experiment was to scare the kids away from eating processed fast food.

Thing is.....that's not even close to the way chicken nuggets are made! A quick reading of the actual ingredients of chicken nuggets will show you that bones, giblets, connective tissue, and chicken skin are not part of the recipe. Chicken nuggets are made of white meat chicken, chicken broth powder, corn flour, modified corn starch, wheat flour, and lots of chemical additives, including aluminum.

Shockingly, Jamie Oliver seemed to be trying to scare kids about chicken parts (part of a whole food!), rather than chemical additives and GMO corn products added to chicken nuggets. He neglected to mention the fact that real chicken nuggets are then deep-fried in rancid GMO corn, soy and canola oils. Apparently, that isn't the problem with fast food......its the gross yucky chicken parts (that aren't even actually in the fast food)! Very misleading.....

Jamie Oliver calls himself a chef.......but a good chef would know that the parts he is advocating throwing away are the best and most nutritious parts of the chicken. The bones and connective tissues can be simmered slowly to make a mineral- and gelatin-rich (and delicious) broth which is soothing to digestion. Ever wonder why chicken soup is supposed to be so nourishing when you're sick? Its the broth. Fine chefs use bone broth to make their fancy reduction sauces.....there's no substitute. The organ meats are the most nutrient-dense part of the animal, and unless the chicken is a conventional chicken (something Jamie Oliver shouldn't be promoting anyway), there's no reason to throw away these valuable parts. At least put them in the broth! And the skin is the source of fat-soluble vitamins. If you take the skin off, you don't get the vitamins A and D that it contains. Chicken fat can also be rendered and used as a cooking fat.

In this economy, it seems absurd to be telling people to throw away part of their whole food. If you only eat part of the whole food, its not whole anymore. Its like telling people to drink 2% milk......sorry, not a whole food!

[iraefaga]

Great show. I hope the kids will be able to embrace new health changes from Jamie Olivers cooking.
I do believe that eating habits start from the HOME..Parents, get your, kids in order for a heatlh revolution!



I've been watching "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" on ABC for the past 3 weeks. I'm very excited about the changes he is trying to introduce in school cafeterias (real food instead of highly processed food high in fat, salt, sugar). Has anyone else been watching it?

I was particularly excited about his efforts to teach some high school students how to cook a healthy meal. Do you know of any programs like that in the Santa Rosa area? If there were such a program, I think I'd like to volunteer to help teach cooking.

What do you think of the show? I can't wait to see the rest of it.