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This house is amazing. Stunning. Like a dream.
Please, what is the paint color for the blue trim?

I have school-age children and the school offerings are pretty sad. Usually my kids take lunch from home. The simplest things -- peanut butter on wheat bread, string cheese, a piece of fruit -- are so much better than what the school offers. If my middle schooler eats school lunch, he comes home ravenous. If my 10-yr old eats school lunch on a regular basis, he has stomach aches.

I appreciate the comments about poverty, but the family highlighted in the episode spent plenty of money on food. Perhaps every family can't eat organic salads and meat, but whole grains, beans, and eggs, for instance, are cheap-- also frozen vegetables. Some fruit that is reasonably priced each season. Prpackaged convenience is the culprit -- and those who market this so aggresively to schools should be held accountable.

Children do become accustomed to what they are regularly served as do we all. One of the interesting things we found at a ministry to homeless people, was that we could put out a bowl of fruit and it would spoil before it was eaten. Good habits take a while to develop.
Slowing our culture down, community and classroom gardens, cooking with others in our communities and families-- these are the beautiful things of life so many people are missing today.

Any wake-up call to America should be welcomed. Of course it is commercial TV. Wouldn't it be nice if it helped fix some of the problems it may have helped cause?