anon- i choose to not eat gluten because i honestly don't believe humans are supposed to eat wheat, i believe we have not adapted to it evolutionarily. I basically believe the most functional diet for human beings would be like that of hunter-gatherers, not agriculturalists. also, modern wheat is nothing like biblical wheat, it is now hybridized and genetically modified to contain a much higher amount of gluten. wheat sensitivities are amongst the most common food sensitivites, and I have heard that in Italy, for example, all children are screen for celiac and wheat intolerance by regular pedicatricians. for info on why some folks dont eat wheat, even if they arent celiac, check out this MD's well-researched blog www.paleonu.com
As a person with Celiac disease it is very hard for me to understand why someone would go on the gf diet voluntarily. It is highly difficult, restrictive and effects the majority of decisions one makes through out the day. A friend asks you out for lunch and you have this whole thing to explain or you can't taste the homebrew your friend made, etc..
Also, people with celiac disease often gain weight as they begin to re-absorb nutrients and calories that were passed through previously due to atrophy of the villi of the intestine. Why cant people just say that they are low carb? ...just a pet peeve of mine.
Liked the article - it would be exciting to see more, maybe written by a gf person?
I am Dave and Florence's daughter and I would love to answer your question on the taste of the milk!
Our cows graze fresh, green grass for the 1/2 of the year that they can and then we switch the cows over to a silage made of dried grasses (most of which is harvested right near the farm on acreage that my dad leases but is too far away to graze)! So generally speaking, just the grass itself will make the milk taste/smell different that the other milks on the shelf. There will also be a shift in the taste/smell when the cows are moved from pasture to stored grasses and back. I hope this helps!
Thank You Rhena for a great blog post and Thank You to our customers that allow us to be your farmer!
I love the glass bottles, I grew up in England where the Milkman/woman delivered milk in bottles to our doorstep every morning.. and it did stay nice and cold in those bottles.. a great system that should be revived! Anyways Thanks for the article Rhena.. do you think it would be a good place to do a short documentary for my web series www.theperennialplate.com ?
What we do to children at lunch time in schools is criminal. We are also shaping their ideas about food that will be hard to eradicate in later years. We all know this. But do all of us know that most real 'kitchens' have been taken out or are no longer used in our older schools and are not being installed at all in the new ones. In my granddaugters small school in the next county (rural Indiana), there is a space where a kitchen used to be, but now only a smaller space remains that dispenses microwaved food that comes to the school frozen. My granddaughter tells me that even the grilled cheese sandwiches are 'nuked'! So, now we have at least 6 fewer jobs that were taken from women in the community (generally older women who know how to cook, since some of the younger ones are serving some of the same bad stuff for supper in the evenings and cooking for low wages and no benefits is not too appealing to them--imagine that!).I came from a very small school which is teetering on the brink of budgetary extinction right now. In that school is still the big kitchen with the big lunch window opening out onto the cafeteria. While I was a student there, the food was plentiful (you could go back for seconds without paying an extra dime), the food was wonderful (as good as a family restaurant any day of the week) AND we had an entire hour to eat (by the way, the extra hour didn't hurt our education--at high school graduation, out of 39 students more that 50% went on to a bachelors degree or higher--and that was in 1969)! When my children attended grade school there, it was the same. My sister is now a teacher at that school and they still have cooks and a kitchen and the food is good! Seems that there are two things lacking now--a real kitchen with cooks and education for entire families about what they should be cooking and eating. You might think that we should only educate the poor, but ignorance of food and how to cook it knows no economic class--the money to buy it does. Oh, and we also need politicians from both sides of the aisle that don't go running for the hills screaming socialism every time it is suggested that more money should be used for our schools and our childrens needs!
This is all wonderful discussion, and I am especially appreciative of the lunch lady input; front line and valuable information, and I don't know why you all weren't the first people we checked with! A couple of caveats: I love the site of FoodTeacherAmy, except that those same comments have been made to me by my son in the face of some truly wonderful organic delights. Ugh. And, Luis, in our district sharing is not allowed at all- so many kids with allergies have made sandwich trading (or apple sharing) a thing of the past.
I'm in Wisconsin, in Madison. The kids at my son's school have 15 minutes for lunch, and this includes time spent coming in from recess and getting to the lunchroom. The hot lunch kids wait in line for their lunch, and then at least 3 minutes can be spent opening the plastic film that covers the tray as well as the plastic film covering the chicken patty, bun, condiment packets, and spork/napkin package. Then opening the darn milk carton. There are 4 or 5 lunch ladies on patrol, expediting like crazy. The waste generated, both of food and packaging, is huge. We have breakfast offered as well, and ofcourse something is WAY better than nothing for the kids that don't eat at home, but why on earth is sugary cereal an option? How much learning gets done after that?
We need to know which districts are doing good things! Which cities, which schools? What are the names of the administrators, and if they've made changes, how exactly? I'm glad there are so many people interested in changing the lunch system, in the districts and schools where change is needed. THANKS!
I too love their cream a lot. For years I stopped drinking my favorite Tibetan butter milk tea just because I could not find the perfect cream (that is essential for it) until I discovered the Cedar Summit Cream. Ever since I found this cream, I am in Shangri-La! :)
I have tried their regular 2% milk but for some reason I get this odd smell while drinking even after I put the black tea and I've found it difficult to get used to the smell. I don't know if it's because of the "grass-fed" component which is the main reason I bought it but I just could not get used to it so I've switched to the Organic Valley Milk. I'm just curious to know what that smell is.
Everybody knows what is bad, but knowing is not enough. we have to start a personal change and teach with the example. if i had kids i will pay for their meal and i will also send them at school with a couple of apples because they will learn about sharing and they will also get healthy at the same time. people need to reed the Bible. thanks Jesus.
anon- i choose to not eat
anon- i choose to not eat gluten because i honestly don't believe humans are supposed to eat wheat, i believe we have not adapted to it evolutionarily. I basically believe the most functional diet for human beings would be like that of hunter-gatherers, not agriculturalists. also, modern wheat is nothing like biblical wheat, it is now hybridized and genetically modified to contain a much higher amount of gluten. wheat sensitivities are amongst the most common food sensitivites, and I have heard that in Italy, for example, all children are screen for celiac and wheat intolerance by regular pedicatricians. for info on why some folks dont eat wheat, even if they arent celiac, check out this MD's well-researched blog www.paleonu.com
One possible cause of the
One possible cause of the rise in gluten intolerance is the fact that genetically modified wheat has much more gluten than non GMO wheat.
As a person with Celiac
As a person with Celiac disease it is very hard for me to understand why someone would go on the gf diet voluntarily. It is highly difficult, restrictive and effects the majority of decisions one makes through out the day. A friend asks you out for lunch and you have this whole thing to explain or you can't taste the homebrew your friend made, etc..
Also, people with celiac disease often gain weight as they begin to re-absorb nutrients and calories that were passed through previously due to atrophy of the villi of the intestine. Why cant people just say that they are low carb? ...just a pet peeve of mine.
Liked the article - it would be exciting to see more, maybe written by a gf person?
Rashmi, I am Dave and
Rashmi,
I am Dave and Florence's daughter and I would love to answer your question on the taste of the milk!
Our cows graze fresh, green grass for the 1/2 of the year that they can and then we switch the cows over to a silage made of dried grasses (most of which is harvested right near the farm on acreage that my dad leases but is too far away to graze)! So generally speaking, just the grass itself will make the milk taste/smell different that the other milks on the shelf. There will also be a shift in the taste/smell when the cows are moved from pasture to stored grasses and back. I hope this helps!
Thank You Rhena for a great blog post and Thank You to our customers that allow us to be your farmer!
I love the glass bottles, I
I love the glass bottles, I grew up in England where the Milkman/woman delivered milk in bottles to our doorstep every morning.. and it did stay nice and cold in those bottles.. a great system that should be revived! Anyways Thanks for the article Rhena.. do you think it would be a good place to do a short documentary for my web series www.theperennialplate.com ?
What we do to children at
What we do to children at lunch time in schools is criminal. We are also shaping their ideas about food that will be hard to eradicate in later years. We all know this. But do all of us know that most real 'kitchens' have been taken out or are no longer used in our older schools and are not being installed at all in the new ones. In my granddaugters small school in the next county (rural Indiana), there is a space where a kitchen used to be, but now only a smaller space remains that dispenses microwaved food that comes to the school frozen. My granddaughter tells me that even the grilled cheese sandwiches are 'nuked'! So, now we have at least 6 fewer jobs that were taken from women in the community (generally older women who know how to cook, since some of the younger ones are serving some of the same bad stuff for supper in the evenings and cooking for low wages and no benefits is not too appealing to them--imagine that!).I came from a very small school which is teetering on the brink of budgetary extinction right now. In that school is still the big kitchen with the big lunch window opening out onto the cafeteria. While I was a student there, the food was plentiful (you could go back for seconds without paying an extra dime), the food was wonderful (as good as a family restaurant any day of the week) AND we had an entire hour to eat (by the way, the extra hour didn't hurt our education--at high school graduation, out of 39 students more that 50% went on to a bachelors degree or higher--and that was in 1969)! When my children attended grade school there, it was the same. My sister is now a teacher at that school and they still have cooks and a kitchen and the food is good! Seems that there are two things lacking now--a real kitchen with cooks and education for entire families about what they should be cooking and eating. You might think that we should only educate the poor, but ignorance of food and how to cook it knows no economic class--the money to buy it does. Oh, and we also need politicians from both sides of the aisle that don't go running for the hills screaming socialism every time it is suggested that more money should be used for our schools and our childrens needs!
This is all wonderful
This is all wonderful discussion, and I am especially appreciative of the lunch lady input; front line and valuable information, and I don't know why you all weren't the first people we checked with! A couple of caveats: I love the site of FoodTeacherAmy, except that those same comments have been made to me by my son in the face of some truly wonderful organic delights. Ugh. And, Luis, in our district sharing is not allowed at all- so many kids with allergies have made sandwich trading (or apple sharing) a thing of the past.
I'm in Wisconsin, in Madison. The kids at my son's school have 15 minutes for lunch, and this includes time spent coming in from recess and getting to the lunchroom. The hot lunch kids wait in line for their lunch, and then at least 3 minutes can be spent opening the plastic film that covers the tray as well as the plastic film covering the chicken patty, bun, condiment packets, and spork/napkin package. Then opening the darn milk carton. There are 4 or 5 lunch ladies on patrol, expediting like crazy. The waste generated, both of food and packaging, is huge. We have breakfast offered as well, and ofcourse something is WAY better than nothing for the kids that don't eat at home, but why on earth is sugary cereal an option? How much learning gets done after that?
We need to know which districts are doing good things! Which cities, which schools? What are the names of the administrators, and if they've made changes, how exactly? I'm glad there are so many people interested in changing the lunch system, in the districts and schools where change is needed. THANKS!
I too love their cream a lot.
I too love their cream a lot. For years I stopped drinking my favorite Tibetan butter milk tea just because I could not find the perfect cream (that is essential for it) until I discovered the Cedar Summit Cream. Ever since I found this cream, I am in Shangri-La! :)
I have tried their regular 2% milk but for some reason I get this odd smell while drinking even after I put the black tea and I've found it difficult to get used to the smell. I don't know if it's because of the "grass-fed" component which is the main reason I bought it but I just could not get used to it so I've switched to the Organic Valley Milk. I'm just curious to know what that smell is.
thank you.
Sounds good Gabriela. I look
Sounds good Gabriela. I look forward to meeting you as well. Thank you.
Everybody knows what is bad,
Everybody knows what is bad, but knowing is not enough. we have to start a personal change and teach with the example. if i had kids i will pay for their meal and i will also send them at school with a couple of apples because they will learn about sharing and they will also get healthy at the same time. people need to reed the Bible. thanks Jesus.