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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Growing up I probably ate these 5 or 6 days a week. Reason being my mom (who wasn't a model parent when it came to making sure there was fresh food in the house - lunchables were actually the least of my worries) left for work before I got up in the morning and usually just left a $5 bill on the table for my lunch.

Being a kid I basically bought the one thing that was easily available for that price (this is the early 90s, bear in mind). Lunchable, a banana and a bag of chips. Every day. From about 8 to 14. Unfortunately I LIKED them... and for $5 I _thought_ I was getting a balanced meal... no idea about sodium etc. ;-)

I'm 100% not defending her actions. Certainly my own kids won't eat them regularly (they aren't school age yet). But, if you do feel the need to give them to your kid occasionally do not feel terrible. I am a perfectly healthy adult. I probably didn't do myself any favors some articles make out like these things will kill your kid by 21... in my case I wised up in my late teens and now won't go near them ;-)[/quote]

At 10, I started smoking, and I used my $5 a day on cigarettes throughout all of high school.  I kept smoking two packs a day through college and law school.  I quit some time ago, and I am absolutely fine now.  Successful, very healthy, and quite athletic.  So my kids will be cool if I start giving them cigarettes, right?[/quote]

If you read my second post you'd realize that's not really what I was trying to say (and I recognize my first post sounded like it was). I'm not saying that it's "cool" to give your kids lunchables just because I ate them and turned out healthy and with a love of good food. I'm simply saying that treating them as though they are 100% poison (as some have) is a little over the top. I won't encourage my kids to eat them and I recognize that not every kid will get away with eating them all them time and stay healthy... I'm just saying it is possible to do so.

By the sound of things in both our cases we were probably fairly lucky with natural health... smokes, booze and terrible food notwithstanding ;-) 
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