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Yeah, she doesn’t want her kids eating like actually “ethnic” people. She wants them to eat like rich Americans.[/quote]
I'd love to hear the explanation for this piece of DCUM logical brilliance.

So going to restaurants owned and operated by immigrants from around that world that, in many cases, cater mostly to their community is "eat[ing] like rich Americans?"

How then would you suggest someone actually eat like people from various communities around the world?

Short of hopping on a plane to visit Yemen, for example, going to Marib seems like the next best option.  But, please enlighten me.[/quote]
I didn't write that post, but I'll take a stab. A lot of food you get at restaurants, even ones run by immigrants with a lot of immigrant clientele, is not the typical food that people eat at home. I'm Indian-American, and Indian restaurant food is way richer and more varied than the Indian food we ate at home. A typical home cooked meal would be rice, roti, a single daal (and rarely the rich black daal you find at restaurants), and 1-2 vegetables lightly sauteed in a few dry spices. And I did grow up a rich American...it's just that day-to-day food for most ethnicities is pretty simple, and doesn't always require a lot of meat.

For OP, I would suggest adding some spices even to American kid foods. For example, you can put frozen peas, curry powder, and parmesan cheese in boxed Mac 'n Cheese to make it a little more complex. This was a trick I learned in grad school when I had little time and even less money...so it's not even something I started doing for my kids. It's not gourmet, and it's certainly not any particular ethnicity, but it's a little more variety than just plain Kraft dinner.[/quote]

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