The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective

Pottering around 9rules I’ve stumbled upon Geek with Laptop’s posting on The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective a new web-based healthy life styles game.  Being a good play-pro, I’ve sneaked a quick go before letting No1 child loose on it.  And it was a quick go because of a cool feature; after 20 minutes or so it locks children out for an hour or so, encouraging them to do more than slob out with the laptop.

I did find it a bit US (in Blighty I’m not entirely sure if kids know what a granola bar is), though still thoroughly accessible; there is a part of me, raised on an interesting cocktail of E numbers in the mid 70’s and then irradiated and warped by the TV, which finds this a bit preachy.  But as the boys go to a ‘healthy’ school, with awards to prove it, perhaps its because they’re the ones usually picking me up on my battle with Dip-Dabs.

tag... play, 5up, 8up, be healthy