The Houston Chronicle had a cartoon [cartoon link no longer available, 3\/27\/11] in the Sunday newspaper (Jan 16, 2011) that is a good example of how our diets have changed, and not for the better.\u00a0 “Hi and Lois” are having Sunday dinner and Hi remembers\u00a0eating Sunday\u00a0dinner when he was a child–roast, ham, or turkey, with\u00a0vegetables, and all sitting down together to eat.\u00a0 Today’s Sunday dinner shows the\u00a0kids watching TV\u00a0on the sofa\u00a0and eating take-out pizza from the box–typical fast food.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Many of us remember when we mostly ate dinner at home, usually a meat and some vegetables–a wide variety of vegetables, not just\u00a0potatoes–maybe with some bread and butter as a side not the main part of the meal.\u00a0 If we had milk it was whole, not low fat or skim, and if we drank\u00a0tea, it was homemade.\u00a0 The meat was probably cooked in the oven or in a skillet on the stovetop.\u00a0 There might have been dessert, but, if so, it was home cooked.\u00a0\u00a0 We got more variety and didn’t load up on foods with little nutrition.<\/p>\n
We’re all busier now and think we don’t have time to prepare good foods.\u00a0 What should we do?\u00a0 My husband and I try to cook on weekends so that we only need to reheat food for dinner each night.\u00a0 We also cook food to take to work\u00a0for lunch.\u00a0 Our children are grown so, fortunately, we don’t need to prepare school lunches.\u00a0 How do others eat well today?\u00a0 Maybe there are some new ideas that would help all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"