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[quote=Anonymous]There a lot of reasons but some are:

- overly catering to kids’ preferences. I’m 44 and my parents served what they wanted for meals. If we didn’t like it- oh well. Stuff like frozen pizza or chicken nuggets was only for maybe Friday nights or something easy for the occasional babysitter.

-so much snacking. School, after school activities, kids sports etc. This was not the norm at all when I was growing up. We ate at home afterward except for the occasional class party or seasonal team party.

-so much eating out as the norm, and so many choices. Eating out was usually for special occasions, an occasional treat  or travel when I was growing up. Definitely less often than weekly. For the most part, anything made at home will be healthier. For example even if cheeseburgers are served at home, they will be smaller than what you get at a restaurant and minus a giant serving of French fries. At least that is the case for us.

-lack of cooking skills. So many people don’t know how to cook at all. My old fashioned working class dad (who didn’t cook all that often- was not raised to do so) had better cooking skills than the average young parent today.

-and the big one: people are BUSY. Especially parents. My parents both worked FT but they weren’t busy running us to activities most evenings and weekends either. Some parents did but it wasn’t the norm. A lot of parents are so frazzled with the hectic scheduling these days and end up doing frozen entrees, fast food etc. [/quote]

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