What's your most controversial food opinion?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

I don't know for sure, but could this to due to children not being exposed to the fruits and veggies, therefore they don't want to eat it? Food education in science/health classes may benefit where children get to see and try different foods.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

Good point.

To add, cooking oil and spices aren’t a requirement to able to consume vegetables and fruit. If you want to use oil and spice, then budget accordingly.

I have occasionally bought food for grocery give a ways at my church. I ALWAYS buy cases of spices to put in the bags. It really does make a difference and can make good food taste delicious! Spices can be expensive.


PP here they certainly are not a REQUIREMENT but if you want to REQUIRE people to use a percentage of their SNAP benefits on fruits and vegetables and you also want to treat people like human beings worthy of respect, kindness, and nourishing flavorful healthy palatable pleasing foods then those things would be added to any such program that truly had the best interest of people at heart.

They can use snap benefits on oil and spices if they want. Those are versatile to cooking in general and limited to using to prepare produce. Or not. There is nothing inhumane or unkind about steaming, boiling, or eating produce raw.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

Good point.

To add, cooking oil and spices aren’t a requirement to able to consume vegetables and fruit. If you want to use oil and spice, then budget accordingly.

I have occasionally bought food for grocery give a ways at my church. I ALWAYS buy cases of spices to put in the bags. It really does make a difference and can make good food taste delicious! Spices can be expensive.

[Anonymous]

Water doesn’t really quench one’s thirst. A sugary beverage is needed to wash down food and slake thirst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

Good point.

To add, cooking oil and spices aren’t a requirement to able to consume vegetables and fruit. If you want to use oil and spice, then budget accordingly.

PP here they certainly are not a REQUIREMENT but if you want to REQUIRE people to use a percentage of their SNAP benefits on fruits and vegetables and you also want to treat people like human beings worthy of respect, kindness, and nourishing flavorful healthy palatable pleasing foods then those things would be added to any such program that truly had the best interest of people at heart.

Yes, unfortunately delicious fruit is SO expensive. Kids are going to toss a pasty canned pear, mushy apples or brown bananas . Berries, mango, pineapple, grapes, cherries and watermelon are a different story. They perish quickly for school cafeteria purposes.

Perfectly fine whole apples, bananas, and oranges and even grapes are regularly thrown straight in the garbage. Even mango will be passed up in favor of extra slice of pizza

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

I can’t believe I haven’t thought of doing that before. Great idea PP!
Good point.

To add, cooking oil and spices aren’t a requirement to able to consume vegetables and fruit. If you want to use oil and spice, then budget accordingly.

I have occasionally bought food for grocery give a ways at my church. I ALWAYS buy cases of spices to put in the bags. It really does make a difference and can make good food taste delicious! Spices can be expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

Good point.

To add, cooking oil and spices aren’t a requirement to able to consume vegetables and fruit. If you want to use oil and spice, then budget accordingly.

PP here they certainly are not a REQUIREMENT but if you want to REQUIRE people to use a percentage of their SNAP benefits on fruits and vegetables and you also want to treat people like human beings worthy of respect, kindness, and nourishing flavorful healthy palatable pleasing foods then those things would be added to any such program that truly had the best interest of people at heart.

Yes, unfortunately delicious fruit is SO expensive. Kids are going to toss a pasty canned pear, mushy apples or brown bananas . Berries, mango, pineapple, grapes, cherries and watermelon are a different story. They perish quickly for school cafeteria purposes.

Perfectly fine whole apples, bananas, and oranges and even grapes are regularly thrown straight in the garbage. Even mango will be passed up in favor of extra slice of pizza

Such a waste! Are the students forced to get the fruit? I understand we want them to eat it, but if it is going in the garbage, forcing them to take a piece of fruit is dumb. The option should be made available but not forced. Instead of throwing away uneaten fruit, can they put it in a bucket to be washed and given away? Surely not all children dislike fruit. Can teachers cut it up and use as snack?

[Anonymous]

Our school has a “free” table where the kids can deposit all the fruit they don’t intend to eat. My kids who bring lunches will regularly pick up an apple or orange.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school has a “free” table where the kids can deposit all the fruit they don’t intend to eat. My kids who bring lunches will regularly pick up an apple or orange.

When my DD was in elementary school I couldn't always afford enough food, and she often ate lunch fully off that table. Thank goodness for the kids who never told their parents they disliked cheese sticks and yogurt!

[Anonymous]

I don't like salad dressing (or oil+vinegar).
I don't like alcohol.
I don't like sushi.
I tasted coconut water and found it somehow drying.

Related more to food storage rather than food, but I love Tupperware - dishwasher AND microwave safe, all various sizes, lightweight, etc. I don't want that glass storage container - it's too heavy.

[Anonymous]

Potatoes in any form are no better than cardboard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like salad dressing (or oil+vinegar).
I don't like alcohol.
I don't like sushi.
I tasted coconut water and found it somehow drying.

Related more to food storage rather than food, but I love Tupperware - dishwasher AND microwave safe, all various sizes, lightweight, etc. I don't want that glass storage container - it's too heavy.

I don't like coconut water but couldn't put my finger on why, but this is it exactly. It does taste drying. If I'm thirsty it makes it worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school has a “free” table where the kids can deposit all the fruit they don’t intend to eat. My kids who bring lunches will regularly pick up an apple or orange.

Our school also has a share table. You can donate whole fruit, milk, or pretty much any unopened packaged item. Kids with bigger appetites get enough to eat or can grab a snack for later and there is less waste overall.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who need a recipe to cook lack imagination.

(Baking is different as it is science and requires precision.)

This seems a little unfair.

I'm also not a recipe follower, but it took years to get there, and to understand which instructions matter to the end result (or not).

Agreed. More like people who need a recipe lack experience. That's all. You can't get to that next stage right away.

I use recipes all the time. I will never not use a recipe. I’m not interested in being a chef. I’m cooking dinner and getting it done. Somebody else can do the hard work of experimenting with flavors. My creativity isn’t in the kitchen.( I do also love baking!! So maybe I just like to follow the rules!). My husband would probably say I don’t like food much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who need a recipe to cook lack imagination.

(Baking is different as it is science and requires precision.)

This seems a little unfair.

I'm also not a recipe follower, but it took years to get there, and to understand which instructions matter to the end result (or not).

Agreed. More like people who need a recipe lack experience. That's all. You can't get to that next stage right away.

I use recipes all the time. I will never not use a recipe. I’m not interested in being a chef. I’m cooking dinner and getting it done. Somebody else can do the hard work of experimenting with flavors. My creativity isn’t in the kitchen.( I do also love baking!! So maybe I just like to follow the rules!). My husband would probably say I don’t like food much.

I hear you but I actually find being able to “wing it” in the kitchen is a huge time saver.