When we last left our heroine, she was contemplating how much (or is it how many?) sweeteners she should allow in her food. On this week's episode of Are you Smarter than an FP.com editor, we examine how family dinners can help prevent family problems.

I confess, I've been a horribly busy parent who has served her kids numerous plates of macaroni and cheese and turkey burgers over the past few weeks. What can I say, my husband was travelling through China and the rest of us all had places to be, homework to do, and articles to write. Convienience took ahold of the wheel at dinner time and we were relegated to whatever we could make the fastest and with the fewest ingredients. 

I'm up to page 324 of Julia Child's memoir, My Life in France. It's a fabulous book about her travels around Europe with her husband, Paul, and her ascension to the role of French Chef we all grew to know and love.

For those who may not know a lot of back story on Julia or her first cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking was a 10 year endeavor among she and two friends. Julia rifled through French recipe after French recipe to not only translate the language, but also the measurements, food types and cooking times. 

My 13 year old recently came home from school with some information that startled me as a parent. One of her teachers was planning to show the movie Supersize Me in class that week.

Most parents might read that and think "So what, kids need to learn not to inhale Mickey D's every day" but I heard it and thought: What lesson are you teaching these kids? 

It's Back to School time all around the United States. While the thought of heading back to the books spells doom and gloom for some, at our house it means a whole new experiment with back to school lunch foods.

This is me. Erin Erickson. FoodProcessing.com web editor and mommy blogger extraordinaire. My job as the web editor doesn't give me a lot of opportunity to declare to readers the most interesting jobs I have in the world: being a parent to two kids ages 13 (a girl) and 7 (a boy). We try to eat healthy at our house; however, time doesn't always let us indulge that fantasy so we rely on the very things I post on FP every day: prepared, packaged and processed foods.