<p>Lingonberries are also excellent with meatballs or with roast reindeer.</p>
<p>Swedish meatballs are “white”?</p>
<p>When I lived in Norway, everyone I knew ate different types of brown bread. I had never seen so many brown flour mixes in a grocery store. There were distinctive “farmers” breads in each area of Norway. Yes, fish/shrimp were staples but lamb was extremely popular when it was in season (and advertised heavily).</p>
<p>When I worked at McDonald’s in high school (77-79) there were no “drive-thru” windows, now it seems every type of fast food place has one. They didn’t have those combo-meals either. Sometimes I will want just a hamburger which I’m always told “you can get large fries and a large drink for only 10 cents more!”</p>
<p>Watching “Extreme Couponing” on TLC - they seem to save hundreds of dollars on food items that have a shelf life of ten years. The item that jumped out at me: one woman got 48 boxes of Hormel Compleat meals for free with her coupons and store discounts.
I had to look it up online because I was puzzled as to why, what looked like TV dinners were on a store shelf and not in the freezer aisle.</p>
<p>“Food Inc” and “King Korn” are interesting “food” documentaries available on Hulu.</p>
<p>Raw food works for me.</p>
<p>“Swedish meatballs are “white”?”</p>
<p>The meatballs we had in Stockholm weren’t white, and they were almost always served with chanterelle mushroom sauce. Yummm.
Swedes also eat a lot of beets. :)</p>
<p>@Mauretania</p>
<p>What part of Norway did you live in? (I lived in Oslo for 3 years)</p>
<p>Saw this article on USA Today.</p>
<p>[Should</a> parents lose custody of super obese kids? - USATODAY.com](<a href=“USA TODAY - Breaking News and Latest News Today”>USA TODAY - Breaking News and Latest News Today)</p>
<p>One child in foster care lost 130lbs in one year, while being fed 3 balanced meals a day with snacks and moderate activity.</p>
<p>I am not going to touch on policing parents dietary habits but to go back to the swedish meatballs- things that are served with noodles & a sauce that is either dairy based or on " a can of cream of mushroom soup" seem pretty pale tp me.
:)</p>
<p>It’s too much of a slippery slope (The losing custody). Court ordered nutritional/physical counseling is more apt IMHO.</p>
<p>jsanche, I agree. Good solution.</p>
<p>what’s next? taking all the anorexic girls from their homes? or the bulimics?</p>
<p>You can’t do that kind of thing. We’re getting crazy with that stuff in this country.</p>
<p>On a lighter note? I love swedish meatballs. But, without the cream sauce. I don’t like heavy cream sauces for some reason.</p>
<p>the mushroom sauce up above sounds great though.</p>
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<p>One of D1’s childhood friends was always fat, bordering on obese. Both parents were also heavy-set, so it must be metabolism and genetic predisposition, right? Wrong. Her mother mostly fed the girl (and herself) a lot of fast food and snacks. The girl was unable to lose any weight and was miserable over it. When the girl was in her teen years the parents divorced and dad got custody. Dad got remarried to a slim woman who was into healthy eating - not odd fad diets or severe restrictions, just reasonable amounts of good food of mostly plant origin. Since stepmom was now in charge of the meals the fast food and unhealthy snacks went away. The pounds melted off the the girl, and by time she got toward the end of high school she was down to normal weight and looked great. </p>
<p>A great counter-example for those who are convinced they are doomed to be fat because their parents were.</p>
<p>EK, the real Swedish meatballs are served with boiled potatoes, and cream of mushroom soup shoud never, ever be added to the recipe! 
Mmmm… Chanterelles. I hope this year will bring a decent crop of the delicacy. :)</p>
<p>So the article on obese kids only talks about the success stories. How many failures did this program have? I agree with jsanche here - nutritional counseling and maybe even some sort of vouchers good for fresh produce only (for people who are struggling to feed their families) could be cheaper than the foster family approach, and instead of getting just he kids on the right track, counseling and some financial help could help all members of the families.</p>
<p>I wish that more schools were still teaching home ec - I learned a lot of good stuff in that class.</p>
<p>When I was in jr high we had a coed cooking class. The recipes werent that great( we used microwaves!) but we learned about nutrition and gained social skills.
My kids studied nutrition in health but cooking they had to learn at home (& occasionally through a project for a class)</p>
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LOL. I had never heard of a microwave until I entered college (1982). My bf said his mom got one for Christmas. At the time, I remember asking, “what’s a microwave?” :o :D</p>
<p>jsanche32,</p>
<p>I lived in Kristiansand, Stavanger (Forus), and Oslo (Baerum) from 1984 - 1990. Where did you live?</p>
<p>I was in Oslo for three years(1983-6). I lived in Holmenkolen and I went to the old Birklea British School there. </p>
<p>I got the chance to go for a visit a few years back, and it sure has changed. :)</p>