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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel sorry for the dh, but OP needs to butt out. You are just going to make the SIL dig into her position.

Lots of us who were raised in the [b]70s, 80s and 90s were fed junk food and had mom's who hated cooking and working. I assume SIL was one of those kids[/b].

It's taken me years to learn how to cook so the food actually tastes good, maybe a decade overall. If you don't learn when you are younger, it's harder when you have a job and aren't a natural cook. [/quote]

GMAFB.  You think the current generation of parents invented healthy eating?  Everyone else was shoveling frozen TV dinners into their kids?  This must be one of the more idiotic posts I've read on DCUM, and that's saying something on a board full of petty morons.[/quote]

I'm the pp and grew up LMC. Almost all my friends mom's were like this, as well as my own mom pp.

Did wealthier people eat this way? Did their moms and dads teach them what I was taught? I doubt it.

This was my experience in the 70s and 80s, and I literally had to train myself to eat healthier and cook in my 30s and 40s. I was lucky, I was more intelligent, went to college, and then grad school and developed a whole new group of friends who had more successful parents who learned different lessons and tried harder.

My old LMC childhood friends still mostly eat crap and wonder why they are severely overweight and unhealthy in middle age.

They think I am an "idiot" for cooking so much and spending so much money on healthy food. Have you looked around the US lately pp? And, pp, you also think I am "idiotic" for sharing my own personal experience?

And, my point was, how did the SIL grow up? Did she grow up poor or LMC? Did her parents grow up poor or LMC? Maybe not, but if they did she may have had no great role models and a lot of bad habits modeled for her that she has never questioned. Especially if she hasn't worked much and been exposed to new people.

If she lies around all day watching TV and eating crap, she sounds exactly like the way my grandmother and mother and aunt behaved. She may think it's "normal," which it definitely isn't. [/quote]

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