Smoothies for Public Schools – Showing Kids We Have A Choice.

May 3, 2011

The Noble Food Makeover is taking over y’all! This past weekend we served up smoothies at Carter Lawrence School on 12Th Ave and Edgehill. It was a perfect day – warm weather and sunshine. Instead of serving up snow cones PKIA rolled on the scene with a Vita Mix and a bunch of blueberries, strawberries, bananas, local Bee Pollen & a yummy immune boosting green powder. Our intention was to serve up immune boosting smoothies!
Join me tomorrow night at Corinthian Baptist Church for a free cooking class & meal.

I’d love to tell y’all that it’s easy getting folks to eat real food, but it’s not. In fact I’ve gotta push it ’cause we live in a culture where folks are more worried about it tasting good than they are of living with a chronic disease or cancer. Our idea of a quality life resides in our taste buds. Every time I cook whether it is for wealthy educated folks or low income peeps living in the projects the “convincing” is the same – I’m not just a lady who cooks but I’m also a sales person.

The event on Saturday was eye opening for me, people love to talk about what they’d like to do but when it comes to showing up – it’s slim. This coming weekend is an example of this – there are 300 hundred people registered for a conference and luncheon based on discussing what to do with our food crisis – 300! Can you imagine what I could do with 300 able bodies in one afternoon?

Saturdays event was the same, the woman who organized it had a difficult time getting folks to set up booths in fact 3 of the food advocate groups that were meant to come didn’t show and one rolled in 3 hours late, toting a crate of apples that were sold for .50 cents a pop – only person who bought any was my husband. These apple pushers rolled out 45 minutes later.

The table next me was hosted by a woman from Tennessee State University, she was a lovely person and her goal and mission is to get folks to eat real food. So she demonstrated what she meant by this, she opened 3 cans of beans and one can of Chunky soup – then she poured it into a hot pot.

I’ve come to understand something, the divide is no longer at the bank but at the table – REAL food, grains, beans are cheap and the veggies can be grown on balconies and backyards if we CHOOSE. Food Deserts are every where, I cook in the wealthiest most educated homes in the city and the convincing that I HAVE to do to inspire people to TRY real food is the same as what goes down in the projects- we are a processed nation and only WE can CHOOSE to make a change.

Join Mee Tonight and show up for your self!