What makes a family give lunchables for lunch every day?

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

True…

People are seriously just lazy now and want to do as little work as humanly possible.

That’s me. I’m seriously lazy. I’ll do anything to make my life easier. I do overnight oats so I don’t have to cook in the morning. Love me some instant pot and sheet pan meals. My husband grills a ton with is super easy too.

Putting in tons of effort doesn’t necessarily make one a better parent.

What a dumb thing to say. It is not “lazy” to shop for ingredients and take the time to prepare them. Using time-saving conveniences like Instacart, instapot does not make you “lazy” because you have at least met the bare minimum of at-home healthful cooking. No one expects parents, especially working parents to serve up three-hour three-course meals.

PP here and my kids enjoy lunchables occasionally and we have the Aldi version of unusable in our freezer as we speak!

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Anonymous wrote:The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand.

And yet I’m sure you’re one of those people who thinks nothing of putting a child on a bike on a busy city street so maybe you’re not great at assessing risk?

+1

It’s always the self-assured righteous who “get blindsided”

Can’t help but roll my eyes at “18% higher”. Like okay, you feed your kids food they hate that tastes awful and have them develop eating disorders once they’re able to freely choose their own diet because you’re afraid of them having an 18% higher chance of colon cancer when they’re 60.

There is an explosion of colon cancer in young people today, poster. People are dying of colon cancer in their 30s, not their 60s. Knowing that I cannot fathom parents who want to feed their kids cured meats every day.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

True…

People are seriously just lazy now and want to do as little work as humanly possible.

Once a week I spend an hour making a spinach, sundried tomato, garlic and herb quiche and then it takes 6 minutes to heat a slice for breakfast every morning - it's the most deliciously healthy breakfast! I typically pair it with roasted vegetables - asparagus, sweet or red potatoes, brussel sprouts - also cooked in a big batch once per week and reheated in the toasted over with the quiche.

I used to be a convenience eater, and consumed a lot of ultra processed crap. I can no longer make excuses for eating that way because I've been food prepping for over a year now and it's a few hours per week to have delicious, healthy nutrient dense food stocked in the fridge all week and ready to eat in >10 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

True…

People are seriously just lazy now and want to do as little work as humanly possible.

Once a week I spend an hour making a spinach, sundried tomato, garlic and herb quiche and then it takes 6 minutes to heat a slice for breakfast every morning - it's the most deliciously healthy breakfast! I typically pair it with roasted vegetables - asparagus, sweet or red potatoes, brussel sprouts - also cooked in a big batch once per week and reheated in the toasted over with the quiche.

I used to be a convenience eater, and consumed a lot of ultra processed crap. I can no longer make excuses for eating that way because I've been food prepping for over a year now and it's a few hours per week to have delicious, healthy nutrient dense food stocked in the fridge all week and ready to eat in >10 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand.

And yet I’m sure you’re one of those people who thinks nothing of putting a child on a bike on a busy city street so maybe you’re not great at assessing risk?

+1

It’s always the self-assured righteous who “get blindsided”

Can’t help but roll my eyes at “18% higher”. Like okay, you feed your kids food they hate that tastes awful and have them develop eating disorders once they’re able to freely choose their own diet because you’re afraid of them having an 18% higher chance of colon cancer when they’re 60.

There is an explosion of colon cancer in young people today, poster. People are dying of colon cancer in their 30s, not their 60s. Knowing that I cannot fathom parents who want to feed their kids cured meats every day.

And no, I don't send kids out to ride their bikes on busy city streets.

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Anonymous wrote:The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand.

Thank you. This is the truth.

+2

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Anonymous wrote:The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand.

And yet I’m sure you’re one of those people who thinks nothing of putting a child on a bike on a busy city street so maybe you’re not great at assessing risk?

Not the PP but… is this bizarre and irrelevant attack indicative of the intelligence of the Lunchables crowd?

+1 (another DP)

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

True…

People are seriously just lazy now and want to do as little work as humanly possible.

Once a week I spend an hour making a spinach, sundried tomato, garlic and herb quiche and then it takes 6 minutes to heat a slice for breakfast every morning - it's the most deliciously healthy breakfast! I typically pair it with roasted vegetables - asparagus, sweet or red potatoes, brussel sprouts - also cooked in a big batch once per week and reheated in the toasted over with the quiche.

I used to be a convenience eater, and consumed a lot of ultra processed crap. I can no longer make excuses for eating that way because I've been food prepping for over a year now and it's a few hours per week to have delicious, healthy nutrient dense food stocked in the fridge all week and ready to eat in >10 minutes.

I mean that’s great but I find it kind of revolting to eat food like that after the 2nd or 3rd day. I don’t enjoy 5-8 day old food and am always kind of surprised that people do.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

True…

People are seriously just lazy now and want to do as little work as humanly possible.

Once a week I spend an hour making a spinach, sundried tomato, garlic and herb quiche and then it takes 6 minutes to heat a slice for breakfast every morning - it's the most deliciously healthy breakfast! I typically pair it with roasted vegetables - asparagus, sweet or red potatoes, brussel sprouts - also cooked in a big batch once per week and reheated in the toasted over with the quiche.

I used to be a convenience eater, and consumed a lot of ultra processed crap. I can no longer make excuses for eating that way because I've been food prepping for over a year now and it's a few hours per week to have delicious, healthy nutrient dense food stocked in the fridge all week and ready to eat in >10 minutes.

Will your elementary school kid eat this every morning? Great that you do this for yourself though!

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

There is no way a couple of teaspoons of sugar is worse than bacon, cheese, and egg.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

It isn’t the fat that is bad, it is the processed meat. So yes, I’d rather my kids have a bowl of oatmeal with some raisins (or any fruit) and walnuts and a small drizzle of maple syrup and some milk.

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Maybe those kids love lunchables. How bout you s t f u botch?

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

It isn’t the fat that is bad, it is the processed meat. So yes, I’d rather my kids have a bowl of oatmeal with some raisins (or any fruit) and walnuts and a small drizzle of maple syrup and some milk.

PP here. I mean we are quibbling here but I think an egg and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread would be better than oatmeal with straight sugar (maple syrup/sugar/honey are all the same nutritionally). The egg and cheese sandwich would keep me and my kids fuller for much longer than oatmeal, which would create a blood sugar spike and crash.