You're right, Allison. I made that stuff a lot, years ago. The Kraft dinner in the blue box was one of my staples. I wonder, how many of the kids in your child care center are still eating like this? And how great it would be for them, their families and their teachers if they weren't.

Jo

: Joy dot: a walk in the woods at
: lunch, complete with butterflies,
: a frolicking squirrel, ducks
: calling from the ponds, and
: woodpeckers. Plus the trees are
: budding.

: Today I was helping to cover lunch
: breaks at one of our child care
: centers. (I am the data manager
: for an Early Head Start program.)
: The children were sleeping, so one
: person watched them, and I was
: just there as an extra body in
: case of emergency. There were some
: cooking magazines in the office,
: put out by Kraft. I started
: reading them, and I was just
: struck by something. It seemed
: like all the recipes had stuff in
: them that I wouldn't even consider
: eating, or generally would not
: have cooked with, things like
: velveeta, hot dogs, crescent
: rolls, miracle whip etc. None of
: the recipes were very appealing to
: me - not even the pictures. They
: had one article on snacks. There
: were none that I would eat - a lot
: of them had things like pudding,
: or jello. And they had an article
: with instructions for making Kraft
: noodle dinner (plus they sell
: snack packs of it that you just
: heat up)I was looking at it
: thinking, none of this is food!
: But I remembered making stuff like
: this in the past. And I'm sure
: lots of people would have been
: thrilled to have these recipes to
: make for their families.

: Just another reminder of how much has
: changed for me since I started the
: program.
: Allison