We are due to travel to the US next month. My daughter will be 18 months old. I am a little concerned about what to feed her during the trip as we wont have the convenience of cooking our own food & she doesn’t like baby food from jars. I would really appreciate suggestions on places where they serve hygienic food for children of her age & also names of a few dishes that she can eat as I have no idea as to what is available there.
Thanks all

Which argument is more effective and why?

I just finished reading of the both essays. I’m not sure that the gluttony as the one of the sins will help people to eat less, unless they are very religious and afraid that God will punish them for eating too much.
In my opinion the most effective argument is that we are surrounded by “obesogenic” environment. I believe it is true. The author Alison Motluk is absolutely right and I agree with her. People are surrounded by the things that supports their obesity. If we will look around us we will easily notice those things right away. There is a lot of examples. There is fast food restaurants provide cheap, fast, good food. On one hand its give us an extra time to do something else instead of spending time in front the stove, but on another hand it is make us to gain an extra pounds. Schools, offices, shopping centers, movie theaters , etc. “conviniently” located far away from our homes so we have to drive over there instead of walking. What is the body parts we working out while we are driving? None. Well, OK our arms are moving a little. This convenience very good for the gas companies and their profits, but completely against us. Our schools are also playing a big role in the “obesogenic” environment. I do not remember being pushed hard to work out by my PE teacher. Technology in now days very advance. Pretty much everything, work projects, games, homework, can be done on computer, and some people do not have to get out of the house to do their work. The only parts of our body getting an exercise is our fingers. I also think that presence of the enormous amount of the overweight people makes many people to think, or believe that this is normal. I almost forget to mention that right now most of the people having the hard times because the financial situation in our country is very bad. Do you know that a big percentage of the people who is having stress eating a lot more to make themselves feel a little bit more comfortable? This is true and very easy way to gain extra pounds fast. I’m a little scared after I red this essay. It is looks like we can not change this environment, unless we will flip everything over. Refuse to eat a lot, do the work on computer, shop only closely located stores, and think thin.

Which argument is more effective and why?

I just finished reading of the both essays. I’m not sure that the gluttony as the one of the sins will help people to eat less, unless they are very religious and afraid that God will punish them for eating too much.
In my opinion the most effective argument is that we are surrounded by “obesogenic” environment. I believe it is true. The author Alison Motluk is absolutely right and I agree with her. People are surrounded by the things that supports their obesity. If we will look around us we will easily notice those things right away. There is a lot of examples. There is fast food restaurants provide cheap, fast, good food. On one hand its give us an extra time to do something else instead of spending time in front the stove, but on another hand it is make us to gain an extra pounds. Schools, offices, shopping centers, movie theaters , etc. “conviniently” located far away from our homes so we have to drive over there instead of walking. What is the body parts we working out while we are driving? None. Well, OK our arms are moving a little. This convenience very good for the gas companies and their profits, but completely against us. Our schools are also playing a big role in the “obesogenic” environment. I do not remember being pushed hard to work out by my PE teacher. Technology in now days very advance. Pretty much everything, work projects, games, homework, can be done on computer, and some people do not have to get out of the house to do their work. The only parts of our body getting an exercise is our fingers. I also think that presence of the enormous amount of the overweight people makes many people to think, or believe that this is normal. I almost forget to mention that right now most of the people having the hard times because the financial situation in our country is very bad. Do you know that a big percentage of the people who is having stress eating a lot more to make themselves feel a little bit more comfortable? This is true and very easy way to gain extra pounds fast. I’m a little scared after I red this essay. It is looks like we can not change this environment, unless we will flip everything over. Refuse to eat a lot, do the work on computer, shop only closely located stores, and think thin.

Here is the situation: My boyfriend and I are going to be spending a lot of time working for the next month, maybe 2 months. We’re talking like like 80-90 hours a week. But the main thing is that this is also going to involve lots of weird hours, pulling all nighters, working through standard meal times, that kind of thing. This started this week and I’m a little confused how to deal with the seemingly basic problem of feeding myself.

Some info: We live in a European city where eating out regularly is not really an option. It’s very expensive. Also, we will (with the long work hours) be working well after things (restaurants, grocery stores) have already closed. So we can go to the grocery store maybe 1-2 times a week. We’d like to eat at least kind of healthy. I don’t want to feel ashamed if my mother asks me what I had for dinner. Our fridge and freezer (especially freezer) are small. The reason I mention where we live is that when I lived in America this was easy. There are late night restaurants/fast food joints, grocery stores are open late, convenience items are a lot easier to come by (decent frozen meals available even at regular grocery stores), and I had a comparatively massive fridge and freezer. But now I don’t have those options, so I don’t know what to do.

I guess what I am looking for here is a sort of novel solution about the food problem. I mean, we do have to eat. But it literally feels like there is no time, not just for preparation, but for actual purchase of food as well.

What do you do to avoid cooking? Any specific meals that you turn to? Or do you have a good system of avoiding cooking? I thought about freezing meals but our freezer is small and we basically have 1 day off. I don’t want to spend it slaving together in the kitchen to generate food for the rest of the week. I would love ideas on at least somewhat healthy meals that can be made in less than 20 mins without a ton of chopping or shopping. 1 pot-bowl-plate meals also appreciated, since it’s fewer things to wash. We’re not picky eaters.

And if you have some tips on keeping the apartment reasonably tidy you can throw those in as well.

Oh, and I would really appreciate strategies or meals that you’ve actually tried, not just a recipe off the internet!