Tonight I’m liveblogging episode 1×05 of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. Join in the fun!
Welcome to the liveblog! OK, I was going to use a plugin to make this easier, but it goes in the wrong order and I just plain don’t like it. So hopefully I can keep up with the proper timestamps. Newest posts are at the bottom.
7:54 Ooh, promo for the episode. Showdown with Alice! I want to send her a box of plastic gloves.
8:01 Jamie is on the DAWG again. Er… he tells the radio audience he cooked naked once. Yeah, I think once is all you need to decide not to do it again.
8:04 Money, money, who’s got the money? Apparently a doctor who is angry with Jamie. Of course.
8:06 “We totally support what you’re doing. But not really.”
8:08 Is that how all committees work? They won’t jump until someone asks them to help? (Husband says, “I think he could be a little more organized. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.”)
8:10 Great mixed messages with the inclusion of a SlimFast ad. Yeah, who DOES have time to “slim slowly”? Eat this crap instead! Sheesh.
8:11 Yaaay high school! I like the HS segments so much more than the elementary school.
8:13 These kids don’t look too excited about being on TV. Is it more normal for kids now?
8:14 “I revamped the entire food system in Huntington WVa and all I got was this lousy Tshirt”
8:15 Kidding, I think it’s cute. It shows they support him, which is key.
8:16 OMG. The kids are all lining up in Jamie’s line. I think I might cry.
8:17 Yeaaaah Rhonda. In yo face!
8:19 I love Marcy. She’s so positive and willing to change. And now Jamie gets to do all 4 lines in the lunchroom! I can’t imagine having 4 healthful choices at lunch in high school. Or ever, really.
8:23 Yeah, get that promo for Chocolate Cheerios in there. Sigh.
8:23 Back in the elementary. Dun dun DUN!
8:25 I think I’d be afraid of the teacher barking at me to try something.
8:26 “It’s more important that kids get calcium than look at the sugar content in the product…”
8:29 Seriously, what is in that pink milk, aside from the sugar? Tweeps are telling me it tastes like strawberry ice cream. I really don’t want to be eating that ice cream, if that’s the case.
8:33 Chicken mixup – frozen instead of fresh. “This happens all the time,” says Marcy. What? That’s nuts. Rhonda of course has no idea how that would happen.
8:35 Mac and cheese with broccoli? My son would flip for that. He’s obsessed with broccoli.
8:36 Heh. Half the teen team have flavored milk.
8:38 So cold. “We keep it that way to preserve the natural quality of the food.” HA. Says the man running U.S. Foodservice.
8:40 Hey look, real food!
8:40 OK, that guy was actually pretty nice. He does good in front of a camera. Unlike Rhonda, who I think we’ve all agreed is a pill.
8:45 There are seriously a lot of commercials on ABC. And I thought it was annoying during LOST.
8:46 Seriously, everyone wants the pink milk gone but it can’t go away? Why can’t they just not offer it?
8:48 Green truck! I love those mobile grocery stores/food trailers. (As does the entirety of Austin, of course!)
8:50 The hospital dude doesn’t seem impressed.
8:51 Ooh, what did he say under the bleep? I need to know!
8:56 Give em the things they like but strip away the additives. Yup – that works with kids. They know what they like.
8:57 Go principal, promoting the program! … Oh, Alice. Work on your bluntness.
8:58 It’s nice that she was a little positive, but it’s no good to start out with pointing out the kids don’t like some of the food.
8:59 It’s over? What? It seemed like nothing happened this episode, and next week is the last episode. Huh.
8:59 Next week! Jamie says goodbye, and comes back to chaos in the lunchroom. Save us, Alice!
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Alice is coming around? Never thought I’d see that. But we’ll see what happens next week, the preview didn’t look all that good…
I would be happy with the meals at either the high school or the grade school. They look delicious. Healthy does not mean boring as we well know! It really seems like he’s made an impression and a change. LOVED that the principal said the kids are more focused in class. Good food, less sugar, better able to concentrate and use their wonderful brains.
Kids know what they like, and when given a chance do tend to pick what is also good for them as long as they like the taste. Kids can learn – and faster than adults it seems – that it doesn’t have to be loaded with sugar or salt to be tasty.
Green truck? I think I want.. have never seen one.
Too many commercials! Altho we did get one for the local beef that one of the grocery stores carries. Which is excellent BTW.
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Megan Reply:
April 17th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
@Mom, I think the Green Trucks are mostly in large cities. Austin doesn’t have those specific ones but we have tons and tons of restaurants serving out of trailers/trucks (that don’t move). It would be great if we had a truck that went around serving healthy lunches tho, especially at big offices like mine.
I love that Reese loves broccoli, green beans, and peas with nothing added. I think that really reflects on my choice to make his baby food! I’m lucky that I started off with healthy, I think. Even though at school the choices are dubious…
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I love Marcy too! She’s so refreshing, after Alice… I understand that it’s a show and they need an “obstacle” but it still doesn’t make me any less frustrated when ADULTS are against healthy eating…
“8:26 “It’s more important that kids get calcium than look at the sugar content in the product…”
8:29 Seriously, what is in that pink milk, aside from the sugar? Tweeps are telling me it tastes like strawberry ice cream. I really don’t want to be eating that ice cream, if that’s the case.”
^I laughed so hard when Jamie was like, “I never would have guessed that kids would eat more of something if you put a load of sugar in it.”
My mom thinks that they should give unsweetened (artificially sweetened, rather) milk and that will solve the problem, but I don’t think so. No matter how unhealthy sugar is, I really believe that artificial sweeteners are more so. And even if they did use artificial sweeteners, there’d still be all the food coloring and artificial flavors and additives and other icky stuff, which is exactly what Jamie’s trying to get rid of. Besides, it’s obvious that the kids are okay with drinking white milk; they just prefer drinking something sugary instead. Most kids are brought up to drink milk so they don’t mind the taste. I wasn’t so I always chose the chocolate milk in school, which of course I regret now but I thought nothing of it besides the fact that it didn’t taste like milk, ha.
The mac and cheese broccoli looked amazing. I sometimes make mine with broccoli.
When I saw that frozen breaded drumstick, I had a horrible flashback to elementary school. Soggy, slightly-warmer-than-lukewarm chicken flanked by a ridiculous amount of grease. *shudder*
Yeah, I was surprised that the US Foodservice place actually had real food. I always thought that schools were just able to order from what the food company had available, but evidently they’re just being cheap and don’t want to pay a little extra to not feed kids absolute garbage.
I’m pretty sure Jamie said something along the lines of “shit my pants”. XD
I didn’t notice the commercials, really, but maybe I was just zoning out so they didn’t bother me as much. I did remember seeing a woman from one of those annoying HFCS “Learn the facts” ads on a MasterCard commercial, though…
I agree that nothing really happened, despite the fact that I was entertained. I’m kind of bummed that next week is the last episode. Short season/series. o.O
I like your reviews.
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Megan Reply:
April 17th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
@Mo, artificial sweetener is definitely worse than real sugar! The thing about those flavored milks is that I think they have HFCS, not sugar.
The thing about the fresh foods at the foodservice is that I think the schools (or the kitchen workers) just don’t want to do the extra work of chopping up a watermelon or what have you. Seems accurate based on how much Alice complaining.
Hopefully after the show ends people will keep working to make change!
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Mo Reply:
April 17th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
@Megan, my thoughts exactly! I know my school district milk had HFCS in it and I actually went to school in a very affluent county so I imagine poorer places aren’t exactly ordering stuff with real sugar either…
Oh, yeah, I didn’t think about that. That’s a shame. Hopefully most lunch ladies are Marcys rather than Alices…
I’ve heard reports that Huntington kept up the healthy habits after Jamie left. The preview for next week’s episodes was ominous but I don’t really think they’d air it if it didn’t have a happy ending.
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