RE: food fight !!!
Krisula Moyer
on Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:11:52 -0000
"Kathy" said <KathysTMPJ@...>
promote the wastefulness of a food fight? Many people have
difficulties being able to afford to buy food to eat, let alone to
use it as a toy. This might be a perfect opportunity to discuss
wastefulness, and perhaps even to encourage a charitable donation to
a hunger center with the very foods that may have been used in the
food fight. I may be a bit biased about this because of my
upbringing, but my parents lived throught the Second World War in
Europe and suffered from hunger, so from early on it was instilled in
me that we do not waste.
Kathy<<
I disagree. It doesn't have to be a waste. You could go on a shopping trip
to find some foods that are so cheap that you could have a very satisfactory
food fight for a few dollars. Since no one is eating it, the brand and
flavor don't matter. Jello, rice, old cereal from the pantry that no one
ate before it went stale.
On the other hand, maybe spontaneity is what makes a good food fight and
this much planning kind of squelches it? Find out what it is that intrigues
your kids about the Hollywood style food fight. I remember my brothers and
I used to fantasize about a pie fight like they had on the Brady bunch
vacation episode. We had a lot of fun trying to figure out if they wasted
all those real pies or if they were just pie tins filled Redi-Whip.
I think my kids love it when serious people like my dh and I do something
out of character and wacky (even I wish that sort of thing happened more
often).
Yours truly
Krisula
"Kathy" said <KathysTMPJ@...>
>>Pamela,Not everything that looks fun is worth doing. Do you really want to
promote the wastefulness of a food fight? Many people have
difficulties being able to afford to buy food to eat, let alone to
use it as a toy. This might be a perfect opportunity to discuss
wastefulness, and perhaps even to encourage a charitable donation to
a hunger center with the very foods that may have been used in the
food fight. I may be a bit biased about this because of my
upbringing, but my parents lived throught the Second World War in
Europe and suffered from hunger, so from early on it was instilled in
me that we do not waste.
Kathy<<
I disagree. It doesn't have to be a waste. You could go on a shopping trip
to find some foods that are so cheap that you could have a very satisfactory
food fight for a few dollars. Since no one is eating it, the brand and
flavor don't matter. Jello, rice, old cereal from the pantry that no one
ate before it went stale.
On the other hand, maybe spontaneity is what makes a good food fight and
this much planning kind of squelches it? Find out what it is that intrigues
your kids about the Hollywood style food fight. I remember my brothers and
I used to fantasize about a pie fight like they had on the Brady bunch
vacation episode. We had a lot of fun trying to figure out if they wasted
all those real pies or if they were just pie tins filled Redi-Whip.
I think my kids love it when serious people like my dh and I do something
out of character and wacky (even I wish that sort of thing happened more
often).
Yours truly
Krisula
pam sorooshian
On Mar 21, 2004, at 5:00 PM, Krisula Moyer wrote:
people at big table - done eating and just having pie. My bil tried to
take the lid off of some whipped cream - the kind in a canister that
sprays out - it sort of exploded and whipped cream flew up - stuck on
the ceiling and also kind of sprayed all over people sitting near him.
I got it in the face - more than anybody else. So I grabbed another can
and pointed it at him and sprayed him back. I don't think the kids ever
laughed so hard in their lives as they joined in - it was self-limiting
because we wanted the whipped cream for our pies and there were only a
few cans, but everybody who wanted to got at least one chance to spray
somebody. My bil died of leukemia a little over a year later - that was
our last Thanksgiving together and that memory is just so precious to
us all. He was a guy who had FAR more spontaneity than the rest of us
and brought out the fun in us. Even now all these years later, we can
be kind of a serious family, but each of sometimes thinks, "What would
Des do?" and then does some totally out of character wacky thing.
-pam
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>Thanksgiving dinner about 11 years ago. Extended family - maybe 25
> I think my kids love it when serious people like my dh and I do
> something
> out of character and wacky (even I wish that sort of thing happened
> more
> often).
people at big table - done eating and just having pie. My bil tried to
take the lid off of some whipped cream - the kind in a canister that
sprays out - it sort of exploded and whipped cream flew up - stuck on
the ceiling and also kind of sprayed all over people sitting near him.
I got it in the face - more than anybody else. So I grabbed another can
and pointed it at him and sprayed him back. I don't think the kids ever
laughed so hard in their lives as they joined in - it was self-limiting
because we wanted the whipped cream for our pies and there were only a
few cans, but everybody who wanted to got at least one chance to spray
somebody. My bil died of leukemia a little over a year later - that was
our last Thanksgiving together and that memory is just so precious to
us all. He was a guy who had FAR more spontaneity than the rest of us
and brought out the fun in us. Even now all these years later, we can
be kind of a serious family, but each of sometimes thinks, "What would
Des do?" and then does some totally out of character wacky thing.
-pam
National Home Education Network
<www.NHEN.org>
Serving the entire homeschooling community since 1999
through information, networking and public relations.