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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh and be very careful what you say - please don’t use some of the language others have - that’s toxic, or that food is bad for you. Your kids may repeat that to other kids. What you say to your kids remember can be used to judge others and their families who may not have access to as much healthy food as you do. I like to say to my kids that our goal is to have a mix of foods - does this meal have a good mix? Having a lot of any one food isn’t great for us - if I just lived on broccoli it isn’t great either. Meals with a mix, snacks with a mix, that’s our ideal and we don’t always get there but it’s a way to say it without making it about good bad toxic all this language that demonizes things [/quote]

Is going to be honest, I don’t give two s’s how my teaching my kid on food affects you. Some food is bad, sorry the truth hurts. [/quote]

You’ve never been poor and it shows. I was poor as a child and my mom did the best to put healthy foods on the table. But sometimes my “lunch” was literally whatever we had at home and it wasn’t always a well balanced meal. Your child’s snide comment could truly hurt a kid who has NO CONTROL over their food intake when they’re young.

I am fortunate to be able to afford healthy food for my kids and they pack fruits and vegetables and home cooked foods for their lunches AND I also teach them to not judge others lunches. Sometimes one meal is just a snapshot of someone’s whole world, so keep your judgement to yourself. That’s all you have to do. Teach your kids to eat healthy and also to be kind. [/quote]

Actually I have. But I didn’t eat crap. I’m not going to tell my kid little Debbie is a healthy thing to eat because it might hurt someone’s feelings. I don’t buy into this whole “there are no bad foods” nonsense. Research has objectively shown that certain foods ARE actually bad. We can mealy mouth around it with “sometimes foods” and “foods that make you emotionally happy” or whatever is acceptable these days but it doesn’t change facts. [/quote]

Yeah. Agree.  My husband grew up poor.  As in his single mom was an immigrant, knew little English, and worked nights as a nurse aid. He never ate junk.  He never even had fast food until well into his teens and never ate restaurant food. She cooked all the meals.  They didn’t have meat with every meal.  They ate tons of beans, rice, lentils, and eggs. Simple seasonal fruits and vegetables. Lunch would often be strained yogurt (that she made) wrapped in a piece of bread, maybe part of a tomato if they had some. The whole thing sentiment that poor people have no choice but to eat processed junk is a myth.  [/quote]

I don't know if you've experienced extreme poverty.

My first job out of college involved working with kids who had been in juvie.  Some were in group homes, some bounced between relatives.  But the whole concept of fresh fruit, lentils, all that  it wasn't part if the conversation because no one was cooking for them.  These kids were eating cheap stuff they could scrounge up from the gas station nearby.  Ramen, sometimes uncooked straight from the pack, packaged foods, occasionally bananas.  No one was really looking out for these kids.  Their free lunch at school was the closest they got to a reasonable serving of food.

There's poverty and there's what some kids go through.[/quote]

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