Thank You for this extensive report, Brie. I wish you well with these efforts.
The tastes of a young palate seem to set-in around 16 months of age, and kids become "picky eaters" after that, resisting what is not familiar to them.
This may be an evolutionary adaptation to keep toddlers from eating poisonous weeds when they wander from the hunter-gatherer camp. I don't know, but it is an easy way to think of it.
The best place to start with healthy fresh produce would be in the very early programs, where green beans, blackeyed peas, sweet potatoes, collard-greens, kale (fresh and cooked) and so on. The only black people I know who like collard greens like them because they grew up with them from grandma's or mom's garden, and they are older folks...
I grow collard greens in my vegetable gardens, and they are quickly accepted by those who grew up with them. We have the conversation right away when I offer them.
I hope this perspective is useful to you. I am happy to engage. I have given this considerable thought over the last 20 years.
I am friends with Meryl Nass MD and John Klar Esq. I presented a couple of times at CHD's Attacks on Food and Farming conferences, the How-To-Plan-Make-and-Grow your vegetable garden talk.
Wonderful news. Our family eats meat, veggies and salads and happy to hear kids at school can eat healthy, too.
This is great!
I had no idea what kind of junk was being served to the school kids.
Wait wait: Where did you decide meat eating was healthy? What is your science reference?
Thank You for this extensive report, Brie. I wish you well with these efforts.
The tastes of a young palate seem to set-in around 16 months of age, and kids become "picky eaters" after that, resisting what is not familiar to them.
This may be an evolutionary adaptation to keep toddlers from eating poisonous weeds when they wander from the hunter-gatherer camp. I don't know, but it is an easy way to think of it.
The best place to start with healthy fresh produce would be in the very early programs, where green beans, blackeyed peas, sweet potatoes, collard-greens, kale (fresh and cooked) and so on. The only black people I know who like collard greens like them because they grew up with them from grandma's or mom's garden, and they are older folks...
I grow collard greens in my vegetable gardens, and they are quickly accepted by those who grew up with them. We have the conversation right away when I offer them.
I hope this perspective is useful to you. I am happy to engage. I have given this considerable thought over the last 20 years.
I am friends with Meryl Nass MD and John Klar Esq. I presented a couple of times at CHD's Attacks on Food and Farming conferences, the How-To-Plan-Make-and-Grow your vegetable garden talk.
Deciding Where To Grow Vegetables https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/deciding-where-to-grow-vegetables
Preparing Your Kitchen Garden https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/preparing-your-kitchen-garden
Growing Food https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/growing-food