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08
Apr
2009

The Apple Can Fall Far From The Tree

Cherry red summer apple isolated on white

There are many times I wonder who took my daughter, and what have they done with her?

I  raised my daughter on the staples of food during the 70’s and 80’s………..

  • injected red meat and chicken
  • vegetables with chemical preservatives
  • doughnuts for breakfast
  • instant mashed potatoes
  • junk foods galore for snacks

Now, I have to admit she turned out wonderful………..this little cherub that sat and ate artifically flavored ice cream straight out of the carton with me.   We had cakes filled with  bleached flour, artery clogging oils and gobs of shortening for every birthday from the day she was one year old. And how we enjoyed snacking on corn curls jam packed  with artificial flavor and coloring!

But, she’s gone………………………

She has been taken over by a health concious, “let me make it from scratch with only healthy ingredients”, mother.  Her kitchen is filled with fresh vegetables that have been grown in her backyard with her very own mix of compost ………………fruits from health store co-ops or the neighbors (not sprayed with chemicals) tree.  She eats hummus for God sake!………(I think that’s supposed to be outside around my shrubs).

There is not one single drop of trisodium phosphate or hydrogenated oil to be found in Earth Child’s home.  I know, I have looked when she wasn’t watching me.

“Now, Mother, when the girls come over to your house, you have healthy snacks for them, don’t  you?”

“Of course, dear.”

I will rot in hell…………………………………

Posted on April 8, 2009 in My family is stuck with me

  1. 8 Responses to “The Apple Can Fall Far From The Tree”

  2. By KathyB! on Apr 8, 2009 | Reply

    Plug ‘em full of Cheetos and Diet Coke :)

    But it is good for them to get some of the forbidden stuff… otherwise they become obsessed with it!

  3. By Phat Mama on Apr 8, 2009 | Reply

    LOL, loved this! Eggs fried in the grease left over from frying the bacon, I say!

  4. By Mrs4444 on Apr 8, 2009 | Reply

    I’ve been contemplating driving an hour, just to visit the nearest Trader Joe’s and buy some organic goodness. Man, I love Trader Joe’s. This post tempts me further…Thanks.

  5. By Hyphen Mama on Apr 8, 2009 | Reply

    OH MY GOD. Is your name Lynne and you’ve got a cousin named Nancy and you call each other Ethel after that crazy old lady who lived down the street when you were growing up? Are you positively SURE? Okay, then you’ve got a life twin.

    My mother is forever saying “But YOU ate refined sugar, and pop with caffeine and ice cream and candy. You turned out just fine!” Yes, but I SWEAR the refined sugar and the red dye #40 is just different today. It makes my kids hang off the ceiling for 56 hours straight! I’m just sayin’.

    We rode in the back of the pickup truck, driving down the highway, with no seat belts… while adults smoked cigarettes. Yeah, times were different.

  6. By Susan on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply

    Zelzee:
    I agree, my parents raised 25 kids, 6 theirs, the rest belong to others, and if we wanted someting “sweet” then that consisted of mayo on bread covered in sugar! Desserts to us, cornbread in milk or buttermilk with brown sugar or if we were lucky, when mom made sweet milk!
    Sometimes, I really miss those days!

  7. By Melissa from Pittsburgh on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply

    This is too funny.

    This is my mother and I – right here in print.

    My mother comes to my house and looks around with a tear in her eye and says – ‘I don’t recognize anything in your kitchen’, and ‘what do you do with THAT?’ pointing to avocado and ‘I don’t know where you came from’, ‘who raised you’. And now my kids are over there every day after school … Mom, they aren’t allowed, this and that and this and that … blah blah blah is all she hears.

    To yours and her credit, things were different then. There was sugar in things, less food dyes, less garbage even in mass produced food – now-a-days with autism and hyperactivity and behavoir problems mommy’s have to really watch what their kids are ingesting. Red & Yellow food dyes are proven to cause hyperactivity. There is so much to learn.

    Ask your daughter if she’s ever heard of Feingolds? It’s not just for ADHD http://www.feingold.org/

    We are trying to follow it and it’s working well with my WildChild. Who used to be so much wilder.

  8. By Kelly on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply

    So, I try. Have to give it to your daughter for having the convictions to stick with it. I only bought my son organic milk for like the first year he drank milk, only to figure out it cost WAY too much money! Now he drinks the injected stuff…

    My mom raised us somewhat healthy. In a “diet coke” is healthy kind of way. So I liked rice cakes and veggies, but still drank super gross soda.

    My husband grew up with Twinkies and HoHos and pork chops fried in grease. His mom does not understand me at all! She hears that my sons favorite food is rice/beans and can’t decide why we’d skip feeding him meat.

    We still give him cheetos though! They’re just baked…

  9. By Lynne's Somewhat Invented Life on May 2, 2009 | Reply

    The more processed a food is the better I like it–unfortunately. If they made carrot chips, fried in oil, doused with artificial flavorings, I’d probably love them and have four bags, stashed away for a rainy day.

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