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Re: Re: Re: Re: The Crazy Makers
by Meranda_Jade (Meranda@mymind.com)
on Jul 26, 2002 - 07:53 PM
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My thoughts exactly. I figure, as long as it's 100% natural ( or as close to it as you can get.... these days it's damn hard to find food that's not been ruined) it's good for you. Anything else is very bad. Kids that eat nothing but convenience foods are manic? And I thought mine were enough to drive a saint crazy... :-) I'd hate to see them on the sugar, convenience food diet. (not that sugar and food dyes don't sneak in there sometimes, they DO have grandparents who don't read labels... and once in a while I am just too damn tired to cook, so we do the fast food thing) I do try to keep it under control, though. One of the hardest things about being a parent is figuring out how to feed kids right, and make them like it.
One time I was at my sister's house for easter, and not only was everyone glaring at me for going through the kids' baskets and reading the labels on the candy and taking it away if if had lake dyes... My sister, who had fixed a nice easter meal, gave lunchables to her daughter. When my daughter asked why the other girl got something different, my sister told her that "she won't eat regular food". That poor kid will not eat anything that hasn't been prepackaged...and my sister does not have the will to say, "you'll eat what I put in front of you, or you'll go hungry" When my sister gave all the kids juice pouches... the kind you stick a little straw in, I told her she was just asking for a mess... my kids had never had one. I don't buy faddish convenience foods. She was shocked that I was "denying my kids their childhood". Then she proceeded to say my kids were socially backward because they were homeschooled... but that's a different topic. Sorry, just had to rant here...
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