No decline in child obesity in US, despite efforts: study

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29. Yes, I've tried to increase those recently.

I even splurged on a pressure cooker so I can cook bean dishes quickly (and so I can keep dried beans on hand) but it still takes a long time to cook them. And, my kids hate them, so I have to mash them or blend them into the dish so they don't notice them (it's just a texture thing). It does help with costs, and they do help me feel full longer so that's good. For when I'm pressed for time I do buy canned as well. It's tough to find recipes that we like though. I did not grow up with beans at all, so there is a lot of trial and error. And error can get costly, I hate when that happens. I tried making dahl in my pressure cooker and burnt the crap out of it. That was fun, lol. But yeah, I'm trying all the tricks. I'm quite well versed in nutrition, (for reasons I won't get into here, it would turn into a novel). Because I'm fat, and doctors figure I must know nothing about nutrition, they always try to send me to a nutritionist, even though I protest I'm told, "just try it you might learn something or at least get ideas." However there has been more than one nutritionist who has kicked me out because they said it was pointless for me to be there as I knew as much as they did. And nowadays with Pinterest, and the internet, there are plenty of ideas at least.