Let's keep it local with moderation.

The beauty of the fall is everywhere.

Fucking everywhere. 

Mostly in the tonight we have some special dishes at every good restaurant in the City.

Let me guess, the soup of the day is butternut squash or pumpkin ginger.

The special dessert is apple crumble. There is a salad with cranberries, a side of Brussels sprouts, maybe sautéed broccoli or oven roasted sweet potatoes

A feast of local foods, that is.

Until one has to say enough already and perhaps go as crazy as buying something off-seasonal at the store.

Oh my God. Sinful.

Our kids have to eat local. Healthy. No canned foods ever, like Gwyneth Paltrow told us.

No wonder some New Yorkers have turned into park foragers trying to eat locally on a budget.

I was talking to a friend about this yesterday, I love this City very much, but I hate how people get obsessed with certain things – I really don’t get it.

There was an article in the New Yorker that talked about how some parents are making their kids crazy about food.

Here is an excerpt:

Those parents who go overboard on healthy food are making their children nuts. “We’re seeing a lot of anxiety in these kids,” said Cynthia Bulik, the director of the eating disorders program at the University of North Carolina. “They go to birthday parties, and if it’s not a granola cake they feel like they can’t eat it. The culture has led both them and their parents to take the public health messages to an extreme.”

In the article they mentioned a word that I love and I don’t use enough: Moderation.

Food is certainly one of the big parenting issues – and in my case – the fights over eating vegetables and fruits drive me crazy, not only that, but sugars are an issue with Juliana who happens to roll her eyes (as in pleasure… yes) when she bites a cupcake.

But please let’s stop freaking out because our kids ate Oreo cookies at a friend’s house.
Let’s bring it down a notch. 
The world is dirty and full of fat and canned foods.
It's also filled with bad influences, bad role models and shows like ICarly.

But what do we do? since we live in it.
We try to keep it local if budget allows - and sometimes we simply eat mangoes from Mexico in the middle of the winter - because we just feel like it!
And it’s ok.