Captain Cartwheel

During my extended couch time over the last week I caught a few commercials for a show called Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution.  I hadn't really thought much of it, other than recalling my school days of hot lunches - Italian Dunkers, Nachos, and big-ass chocolate chip cookies from the a la carte line.  Seriously loved the nachos, yummy cheese product.  Oh, and slushies, mmmmm.

Anyway, today I caught a recent Colbert Report with a clip from the show and decided to look it up.  I just finished watching the first two shows online; it was both appauling and intriguing.  Two things really struck me, kids could not identify common vegetables and the amount of processed foods consumed by the average family is nauseating to me.   Oh, and also, seriously, wtf are Potato Pearls?  Ok, maybe there were four things - the size of the some of the kids was shocking.  YIKES!

As someone who has been undergoing my own food revolution in trying to cook with fresh ingredients, avoiding heavily processed items and paying attention to portion sizes, I am repulsed by the representation of fat consumed in schools over a years time.  BARF!  If given the choice between pizza and chicken I would gladly take the chicken (although I would still probably choose the Italian Dunker over either option - mmmmm). 

Check it out, if nothing else you get to listen to a great accent and fun word choices for 43 minutes.  Bonus fact, the web site provides recipes for meals he prepares on the show.