“An Unwashed Vegetable Can Become A Deadly Weapon”
Don’t need to tell me… I’ve eaten eggplant.
I don’t know why, and I don’t know when I stopped, but these days when I prepare mushrooms I just throw away the stems and peel the skin off the cap.
I suppose I should step things up given the recent issues with listeria in Canada and the dodgy milk situation in China.
Hey kids. Wash your veggies.
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via LikeCool.com
Why? Because according to this article from Boing Boing if you do you’ll die.
Apparently in China they’ve identified 1,253 babies who’ve gotten sick drinking powdered milk that had been mixed with a chemical called melamine. Worse, apparently it was intentional.
If you’re in Naples you’ll need to beware of wood oven baked bread prepared using treated wood that releases carcinogens into your buns. Get this, some of the wood was taken from coffins they’d exhumed. Geez. Lumber must be crazy expensive in Italy.
Listeria in sliced meats was bad… but man, these stories take the cake. When your kid asks for McDonalds maybe you should give in… while the ingredients are fake, at least you know they’re under constant scrutiny 
Nothing like a top 10 list to ease the pressure of posting, particularly when its referencing content posted elsewhere
In this case elsewhere is CBC.ca and the content is a number of recommendations to get your children to choose healthy foods rather than junk.
A few examples (paraphrased from the article):
Strangely I didn’t get ten suggestions out of this one, but perhaps there are a few that I missed. Have a look for yourself.
I don’t need to go into the fact that kids these days don’t exercise enough, are overweight, spend too much time in front of the computer etc… we all know it, and in many cases we should be looking at ourselves in the same lens.
The difficult question becomes, with the advertising and pressure from others how do you convince your children to make healthy eating choices?
Popular Baby Products recently had a post on the topic and suggested 5 rules to live by. They are (paraphrased and with my commentary added):
But I’m back now and for the most part unaffected.
BabyGadget interesting items while I was gone. Since I’m planning to come back online slowly, and with little original thought I’ll just list some of them for you here
Qubies ice cube containers for your kid’s food. Easy to dispense means good times for you.
Toast brander? If you say so… though I don’t know many babies that can read. This one’s for the big kids.
Cloth Doner Kebab. Back in December I bought some knitted food on eBay… don’t ask… and submitted it for the office secret Santa pool. This is better, although significantly more expensive (he says assuming that a DKK is worth something).
The root viewer promises to thrill your kids like an ant farm… all the while being even less exciting. Like watching carrots grow.
That’s all for now.
Home Canary posted about this product, and I’m reposting here? Why? Cause I expect at some point a retailer will start making these with patterns that are less Grandma and more Baby Stewie.
When that day comes, I will have my PayPal account ready.
Until that day, feast your eyes on Minale Media’s Table Manners.
Here we have yet another Etsy offering, and an extremely creative one this time. These items will bring tea time to a whole other level. No more plastic foods for children in 2008, these days snacks are plush!
Your kid can bite down on felt poptarts, fried eggs and cupcakes. Mmmmm, mmmm good.
SafeSippy cups look to be Baby’s answer to those overpriced Sigg water bottles everyone’s toting around these days. Nicely designed, interesting colour combinations and apparently well built, these non-toxic drinking cups claim the following:
“From the clean, non-leaching stainless steel cup to the unique safety features to the plastics free of Bisphenol A and other harmful chemicals, The Safe Sippy™ cup was created to accomplish one simple goal: Clean In, Clean Out.”
Best of all it looks to be reasonably priced at about $18. Reasonably priced compared to the Sigg bottle that is.
FYI, I’ve just been made aware that Sigg offers children’s cups as well at a price comparable to the Safesippy. Meh.
First let me acknowledge that this is actually a dog toy, HOWEVER I’m convinced it could double as a child’s gift. Any kids I’m going to hang out with need to be sushi friendly, and toward that end I’m all for training them early.
Sugarcharms offers up a $14.99 plush sushi toy set with the squeaky innards. Your kids will love them
This probably falls in the realm of “is it really necessary,” however I suspect that if I were to ask my mother if my butt ever lost traction with the tub floor resulting in a temporary dent in my scalp the answer would be a quick “Yes.”
That said, if you have money lying around and enjoy explaining your child’s over-engineered gadgets to friends and family the Flo water deflector and faucet cover might well be worth a look. Based on the summary (and minor personal embellishment) it:
Best of all it only costs $14.99
