It's only nutrition - get over it people!

Food is not entertainment. Food and cooking are themes that are not worthy of basing a TV series on. The idea that people should work themselves into a state of desperation in an effort to create a perfect dish is utterly absurd.

Cooking is not a very suitable form of play for young children. They lack the fine-motor skills needed for many cookery techniques, and much of the work of cooking is unsafe for young kids to do. Children also understand little about basic food hygiene.

Food is not love. Food is not an adequate substitute for love. To look to food for consolation for the inadequacies of a poor marriage or bad relationships or no relationships is self-defeating and cowardly. The fatter you get, the less loveable and the more unhealthy you will become. You will shorten your life, giving you even less chance of finding the things that you truly need and desire.

Food is not achievement. Just because you eat fancy stuff doesn't mean that you ever deserved what you get. Spending your time creating fancy dishes seems like a bit of a waste of time.

Food is not status. Some of the wealthiest people in the world like or even prefer to eat very ordinary hamburgers. I dine like Bill Gates when I walk into a McDonald's.

The world does not need any more cook books or recipes in womens magazines. Most people never make any more than a small fraction of the recipes in the cook books that they own. All of the recipes that anyone could need are available over the internet. Most second-hand book shops and charity shops stock a good range of cook books.

Food cannot cure cancer, no matter how often some people claim this is so.

Food cannot heal the mind, unless the mind is diseased due to some type of nutritional deficiency.

Altering your child's diet will most likely not transform your child's personality or behaviour - if it appears otherwise the placebo effect, or regression towards the mean or other scientific explanations need to be considered. Your kids do not exist to please you or to conform to your pre-concieved ideas of what they should be like or who they should be. You are there to serve and accept and raise your kids.

Today's meals are tomorrow's bodily waste.

Bon appetit!