Alison Crockett
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December 6, 2012
The country is getting ready to enter prime food time: Christmas! Full of cakes, pies, meats, sauces, heartburn, heart disease, and obesity. Yea... I love it. My mom always used to say that if you're going to have it, meaning sweets and heavy foods, have it in its entirety with no substitutes. She said this as she instructed me at 9 years old in making our family's secret pound cake recipe, which has its origins in the obvious pound of butter used to make it. Well, this year for thanksgiving I just couldn't do it. We eat pretty healthily anyway, but on holidays, that kinda goes out the window...
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November 15, 2012
I got the new menu for my oldest daughters lunch and noticed something strangely new: there were carrot sticks, cucumbers, romaine lettuce and even...oh my goodness...hummus, on the menu! I am a mom who likes to cook but doesn't love to cook and like many have little time in the morning to prepare a school lunch for my daughter. So I end up letting her eat lunch at school two to three times per week. I had my issues with school lunch in the beginning of my child's education as well as the cafeteria workers' concerns that the kids won't eat certain foods unless it is served in a certain way...
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September 6, 2012
"Chocolate begets more chocolate; it never leads to carrots. Or spinach. Or tofu." - Dina Rose, PhD and parent educator I really like this quote a lot. It's an essential piece of human nature. Sitting begets more sitting. Moving begets more moving. Reading begets more reading…and so on. Why am I bringing this up? As a friend of mine says: "It's not kids who have a problem with vegetables. It's the parents!" How many of you adults actually eat vegetables in your house regularly? If you don't, why do you all of a sudden expect your kids to become a human farmer's market? We as parents and...
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April 23, 2012
My oldest daughter is 8 and in 2nd grade. When she first started school, she began in the Montgomery county summer school program which was free for one month. Hallelujah. She was given free breakfast. Another plus. However, when I went to the cafeteria I was a lot less impressed. Now granted, they were doing a better job than I've seen many schools do. As a teaching artist in New York City and Washington, DC, I've seen a lot of school lunches and snacks. It ain't always pretty out there y'all. But I thought in the wealthy, highly progressive county of Montgomery Co, MD that they would have...
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