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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Non-cooks get so upset when people who love to cook actually cook for their kids... it's like cooking for your kids offends them or questions the way they raise their kids so they have to act like it's an act of terrible parenting.

[b]And the people who want their kids to pay or pay 1/2 like WTF. [/b]

:shock: [/quote]

Crazy, that a parent would expect a kid to pay or pay half for an unnecessary, luxury item. The horror!  :shock: Do you seriously just buy your kids whatever they want without question??[/quote]

I don't consider food a luxury item. It's a request for a particular type of food. [/quote]

You do you. I think that’s spoiling your kids. I don’t just grant my kid a “request” for expensive food. [/quote]

Well I don't deny my kids healthy food simply because it is more expensive. [/quote]

How nice to be in an economic class where you don't have to say 'no' to your kids.  I'm solid middle class but just because my kid want something 'healthy' doesn't mean I buy it.   My kids prefer raspberries but I buy strawberries because they're a better value.[/quote]

Are strawberries always a better value? We buy big bags of frozen berries all year as well as fresh when in season. My kids prefer blueberries and sometimes, in season, they are cheaper than strawberries.

But bananas are cheapest of all and if saving money is what matters most, you’d be saving a lot more just feeding your kids bananas and not any berries of any kind.

That said, are you really saving THAT much on strawberries vs. raspberries? Enough that it’s worth you kids looking back and saying “Mom was so cheap that she never let us have raspberries because they were 50 cents more per lb.”[/quote]

Yeah that PP doesn't sound very lovable. I doubt her kids will look back fondly on their childhoods with her....[/quote]

I just remember my mom doing that with bread and soap. So we really were poor. Not just DCUM poor. My mom would buy the cheapest bread and bar soap. Sometimes the difference between the cheapest and the next one up was pennies. Like the store brand loaf was 4 cents cheaper than a local brand. My guess is that at a loaf a week, it took her months of saving that 4 cents per loaf before it translated into a “free loaf” from the savings. Same for soap. Worse, the soap made me itch. I remember begging for ivory. The answer was always no, we can’t afford it. Ivory was one of the first things I bought when I got a little under the table job. Now, I understand why mom did it. She had no other options. However, PP says she’s solidly middle class. T[b]he strawberry thing seems so controlling and a type of disordered eating that they have to always eat the cheaper choice.[/b][/quote]

Disordered eating doesn't mean what you think it means.  The PP isn't banning foods, she declines to purchase them.  I won't buy bottled water, not because I can't afford it but because it's a waste of money.  That doesn't mean my kids don't drink water or that I'm trying to control them.   :roll: [/quote]

Never allowing kids to eat a preferred healthy food that you can afford is setting them up for a lifetime unhealthy relationship with food. I bet it’s not limited to strawberries rattan raspberries either. [/quote]

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