Why do you buy processed foods for your kids?

[Anonymous]

Because it's 2020 and I have a JOB and a WHOLE FOODS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ain't nobody got time to be making yogurt at home, hon! Perhaps it is GOOP posting?

you are joking right? It literally needs a few seconds to set yogurt with starter.. the time you took to post on dcum..

I am not joking, I can buy the darned thing, and I work hard so I don't have to make yogurt, which I am allergic to anyway at home. Take your airs somewhere else dearie. I grew up eating store bought yogurt, sure, it was real yogurt in a Balkan country, and my peasant grandma did not make yogurt! She had plenty on her plate with plucking the danged chicken. And she rolled her own pasty sheets all over the kitchen table. So, darling, I am going to do as my grandma did. If she didn't see a point in making her own yogurt then I surely will not make yogurt.
I am sorry that you feel like you need to broadcast your virtue to the world. Virtue signaling is for the insecure and will not make you a better person. So, you go churn you butter, and I will pay somewhere to burn it for me. And I will still be a better person than you. Any time of the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do think posting something like this during a pandemic is particularly knuckleheaded. Lady, I'm currently both trying to do a full time job and provide childcare, as my son's daycare is closed. Do you have access to Hermione's time turner?

I love you!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Store-bought yogurt is such an innocuous thing to complain about! I make my own because I prefer the taste, but if I liked the taste of store-bought I would switch in an instant. In general, buying store-bought things with just a few ingredients is fine.

I do judge UMC families who rarely cook and continuously rotate a selection of take-out and frozen food. Cooking should be something like laundry or dishes - you just do it. People should be disciplined instead of lazy.

Because you say so? Ok then, I’ll get right on it! If I’m not doing it your way then clearly I suck at parenting. Can you please send me your email address - I’d love some more of your pearls of wisdom. I need all the help I can get!

Sorry but I'm with PP on this. I do get that life gets crazy sometimes but I find it stunning when people with kids tell me they don't cook at all. It's one thing to get takeout once or twice a week or feed less healthy things to a truly picky eater, but cooking is a basic life skill. My spouse grew up eating pre-prepared foods and takeout all the time and there are serious health problems in the family as a result. I'm definitely not snobby about everything being fresh/totally unprocessed, even if you're just throwing cans of beans and tomatoes into a pot to make chili that's still cooking in my book.

Why are cooking and processed food mutually exclusive? My kids get two, sometimes three home cooked nutritious meals every day. (And the meal that occasionally isn’t cooked — breakfast — will be something like steel cut oatmeal, fresh fruit, etc.) They also, occasionally, have *gasp* Goldfish crackers or a Lara bar or even (omg) Yoplait yogurt. Call the cops!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ain't nobody got time to be making yogurt at home, hon! Perhaps it is GOOP posting?

you are joking right? It literally needs a few seconds to set yogurt with starter.. the time you took to post on dcum..

I am not joking, I can buy the darned thing, and I work hard so I don't have to make yogurt, which I am allergic to anyway at home. Take your airs somewhere else dearie. I grew up eating store bought yogurt, sure, it was real yogurt in a Balkan country, and my peasant grandma did not make yogurt! She had plenty on her plate with plucking the danged chicken. And she rolled her own pasty sheets all over the kitchen table. So, darling, I am going to do as my grandma did. If she didn't see a point in making her own yogurt then I surely will not make yogurt.
I am sorry that you feel like you need to broadcast your virtue to the world. Virtue signaling is for the insecure and will not make you a better person. So, you go churn you butter, and I will pay somewhere to burn it for me. And I will still be a better person than you. Any time of the day.

This!

I make egg noodles that dry all day on the table (while I do other things). I make bread (which rises while I do other things). I soak and cook beans (both happen while I do other things; I don’t worry about a crock pot being on overnight, like I would worry about yogurt in the oven overnight).

I CAN churn butter. The last time kids wanted “fresh” butter, they got to make it in the soccer ball ice cream churn; while it turned out ok, they want to do with it ever again.

I CAN make yogurt, but I hate scalding milk, I hate the time it takes, and I don’t feel comfortable walking away.

Most important to me? I coukk l don’t hope to keep up with the household’s dairy needs, not with everything else I cook and do. And my priorities are much higher than homemade dairy.

FWIW, I don’t do waffles at all, let alone frozen. Cereal is steel-cut oatmeal made with whole milk on the stove, with a mix of spices, fruit, nuts or nut butter or even unsweetened cocoa powder.

[Anonymous]

Because my wife and I both have full time jobs. Go to hell OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious? It takes no time to make homemade foods. Even yogurt can be easily made for less and it's healthier and you can control the quality of ingredients. I don't understand why anyone would buy a frozen waffle or granola bar.

I have a job, a husband who travels, a ridiculously challenging toddler and a teenager who is special needs. Oh and no help or family nearby.

So while I'd absolutely never buy a Lunchable, I buy bagels when we haven't made bread. I buy low sugar jam even though I make it once a year if we go berry picking. I make quesadillas because I'm not making my own tortillas or cheese but of course I'll mash an avocado.

We eat vegetables and fresh fruit constantly but on a night I need to get a kid to sports and I have to have dinner for my toddler at 5pm, dinner for my son at 8pm and dinner for my husband at 10 pm, I eat standing up while cleaning and I use some frozen fries or a Trader Joe's frozen meal. If not, it would be takeout (or when I'm lucky, leftovers)

I hate it but I don't know how to make everything from scratch efficiently. I also don't grocery shop anymore so I need everything to be delivered and can't always get ingredients I need.

[Anonymous]

Please, you are not "just curious." You are not curious at all, you just want to judge and feel superior to others about something.

Get help.

[Anonymous]

I remember my MIL once was like "Oh, do you not make your own pasta sauce?" Not on a Tuesday when I got home from work at 6PM.

Is this one of those posts written by a stay at home mom who also has a nanny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, why are you posting on DCUM instead of interacting with your child, making yogurt from scratch or hand-washing reusable diapers in a vinegar solution?

Hey, leave the cloth diapers out of this!

[Anonymous]

Because I have a teenager who makes his own breakfast and lunch, so long as it is reasonably easy—oatmeal, granola, pasta and sauce, frozen chicken tenders and reheated leftovers are his go-tos. Fine by me, and he gets a cooked-from-scratch dinner every night.

[Anonymous]

I love myself and value my time WAY too much to make everything my kid eats from scratch. That's time I could spend reading, or sleeping, or.... apparently, reading every single post in this thread. Well, okay, maybe I don't value my time, but I do love myself. Frozen waffles for life!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Store-bought yogurt is such an innocuous thing to complain about! I make my own because I prefer the taste, but if I liked the taste of store-bought I would switch in an instant. In general, buying store-bought things with just a few ingredients is fine.

I do judge UMC families who rarely cook and continuously rotate a selection of take-out and frozen food. Cooking should be something like laundry or dishes - you just do it. People should be disciplined instead of lazy.

Because you say so? Ok then, I’ll get right on it! If I’m not doing it your way then clearly I suck at parenting. Can you please send me your email address - I’d love some more of your pearls of wisdom. I need all the help I can get!

Sorry but I'm with PP on this. I do get that life gets crazy sometimes but I find it stunning when people with kids tell me they don't cook at all. It's one thing to get takeout once or twice a week or feed less healthy things to a truly picky eater, but cooking is a basic life skill. My spouse grew up eating pre-prepared foods and takeout all the time and there are serious health problems in the family as a result. I'm definitely not snobby about everything being fresh/totally unprocessed, even if you're just throwing cans of beans and tomatoes into a pot to make chili that's still cooking in my book.

Why are cooking and processed food mutually exclusive? My kids get two, sometimes three home cooked nutritious meals every day. (And the meal that occasionally isn’t cooked — breakfast — will be something like steel cut oatmeal, fresh fruit, etc.) They also, occasionally, have *gasp* Goldfish crackers or a Lara bar or even (omg) Yoplait yogurt. Call the cops!

Who are you talking to? I'm the immediate PP above you and I have no problem with having some processed food. I do judge people who don't cook at all. There's a big difference between having some Goldfish occasionally (or even regularly, in small amounts) and having all of your meals be ultra-processed or even just pre-prepared stuff that may seem healthy of often tends to have a lot of added salt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ain't nobody got time to be making yogurt at home, hon! Perhaps it is GOOP posting?

Actually Indian families often make homemade yogurt.

[Anonymous]

I’m just so lazy. Also, I love my microwave.