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But now its mud where our family and jamie came out here and buried our deep fryer. thats the story about the deep fryer. now were eating salads and stir fries which are better for you. >> tonight were going to make a little bit of stir fry. going to add all of our veggies in with our meat thats already cooked. whats good about dinner is its fast, its easy, its quick, whatever. you know? tastes good. a serving size for someone is like two ounces of pasta. youre thinking youre not getting that mu...

And as alice was saying, theres still a lot of resistance and the kids are calling it jamies food. were coming out with our own message. no longer jamies food, its our food, its the county food. were implementing it in to the other schools. we were the start of it, and now its spread out through i think probably about 16, 17, 18 schools now, and i just hope theyre seeing the success that were having. but because i guess here recently, we had a drop in our lunch counts that weve also lost a halft...

Aboard. >> just like patrick said, we started with this one and its spread to 16 and were still in the process of doing that. the local -- the local community there is embracing it and theyre in the process of spreading the message and the word and the revolution. and since we had a sneak peek of this show and since its been talked about on-line, weve had cities like new york and atlanta and st. louis, we realize theres a problem. were not sure what the solution is -- nor are we, really. we cant...

And like you said earlier, whats the downside? theres no negative that can come out of this. >> larry: did you have any trouble selling this to abc? >> jamie, you remember the day that we decided to go around hollywood and we had a list of meetings, and i believe we walked into two places, one of which was abc, and steve mcpherson at abc, who runs it said, im in, not only for the show, but for this entire movement. and that was important to you, jamie. it wasnt just a television show. >> absolut...

This out to the city and just help this food revolution begin. >> jamie, did the pastor have a big influence on all of this? >> absolutely. my job whatever i go, whatever i do is to get, you know, you cant make change, you cant learn what the problem is unless you dig yourself into a community. and the quickest way to do that is to go to pastor steves community, his communion. he was doing inspiration at the time. i needed to find an ally. and, of course, what everyone forgets is apart from all ...

>> jamie was dumping the food on the table, it was like stunning. >> you tell me how you feel looking at this? >> yeah, its gross. >> i need you to know that this is going to kill your children early. were talking about 10, 13, 14 years off of their life. >> larry: joining us now from the huntington kitchen, the kitchen built by ryan and jamie for this production, stacy edwards and her stepson, justin. their story is featured on jamie olivers food revolution which premieres tomorrow night on abc...

>> wow. >> jamie was dumping the food on the table, it was like stunning. >> you tell me how you feel looking at this? >> yeah, its gross. >> i need you to know that this is going to kill your children early. were talking about 10, 13, 14 years off of their life. >> larry: joining us now from the huntington kitchen, the kitchen built by ryan and jamie for this production, stacy edwards and her stepson, justin. their story is featured on jamie olivers food revolution which premieres tomorrow nigh...

What he really pushes for is using fresh foods and not having frozen or processed foods. the great thing about this is justin wants to be a chef. he wants to learn more about cooking great food and having great meals. this family is -- is a wonderful family that loves each other that was very brave to come on and share their story with us. >> larry: stacy, do you think at all you set a bad example. did you eat poorly? >> yes, i ate very poorly. i ate what the kids ate too. i ate the nuggets and ...

And weve made things a little easier for ourself doing the new recipes. >> larry: and rebecca, our fifth grader -- i know about fifth graders. did you like this at first, rebec rebecca, truthfully? >> well, i thought it was going to be hard for the school at first, but i like it now. >> larry: jamie, when you went to the school, what do you think they were doing and what are you doing now? >> the thing to remember is already huntington had a light shined on them because of the cdc report and rea...

There are plenty of scrawny people out there that got diabetes and bad health. it affects everyone. not just them. as marissa will tell you now, shes been affected. she lost her father to obesity. she lost her uncle. and its not just the people who have the problems, theyre her. its the greater family out there. >> larry: marissa, you want to go to culinary school, right? >> that is very true. i love to cook. >> larry: what effect does jamie have on you? >> jamie has made a big change in my life...