As children grow, their food choices are heavily influenced by what they are exposed to, and many foods marketed to U.S. children are high in sugar, fat and preservatives while lacking essential nutrients, Dunford said.
“Dietary preferences are established quite young,” Dunford said. “Half of all the sugar that young kids are consuming through these commercial foods come from squeezed pouches, so that’s certainly an area we have to be more careful about.”
This is why I could never have kids. I’ll feed myself Westoid slop and just exercise to balance (I know that’s not how it works), but I can’t even imagine sending my own child off to school with fucking Lunchables, soda/juice, and a squeeze pouch full of lead.
Just an unimaginable amount of ultraprocessed sugar and carcinogens straight to the brain, and that’s considered doing okay as a parent in suburban America.
But also, what the hell are you supposed to do when you work 12 hours a day and commute for 2, before even taking the child into account.
I just don’t see how having children makes sense under a capitalist regime.
Make big batch of chili, fill thermos with chili, put corn chips in baggie, put thermos and chips and piece of fruit in lunboks for kid to open.
Spend 2 hours on Sunday making chili, that is kid’s lunch for MWF and then TR is a sandwich that takes 10 minutes to make the night before. Also there’s enough leftover chili for a couple meals for you. This is close to what I did when I worked a fulltime warehouse-style job that took up 11 hours of my day; I would eat about 1000 calories at lunch so on average I had half packed from home and half bought in the lunch item vending machine. If I was a bit more organized/diligent I could have had 100% packed from home every day.
It’s really not as hard as it feels, once you just start doing it. In my case I learned how to make it work during a period where I had very limited income but plenty of time. Still, you can learn to make a new dish in less than a weekend.
What it’s just getting the little tykes used to adult food?
literally
This is why I could never have kids. I’ll feed myself Westoid slop and just exercise to balance (I know that’s not how it works), but I can’t even imagine sending my own child off to school with fucking Lunchables, soda/juice, and a squeeze pouch full of lead.
Just an unimaginable amount of ultraprocessed sugar and carcinogens straight to the brain, and that’s considered doing okay as a parent in suburban America.
But also, what the hell are you supposed to do when you work 12 hours a day and commute for 2, before even taking the child into account.
I just don’t see how having children makes sense under a capitalist regime.
Make big batch of chili, fill thermos with chili, put corn chips in baggie, put thermos and chips and piece of fruit in lunboks for kid to open.
Spend 2 hours on Sunday making chili, that is kid’s lunch for MWF and then TR is a sandwich that takes 10 minutes to make the night before. Also there’s enough leftover chili for a couple meals for you. This is close to what I did when I worked a fulltime warehouse-style job that took up 11 hours of my day; I would eat about 1000 calories at lunch so on average I had half packed from home and half bought in the lunch item vending machine. If I was a bit more organized/diligent I could have had 100% packed from home every day.
It’s really not as hard as it feels, once you just start doing it. In my case I learned how to make it work during a period where I had very limited income but plenty of time. Still, you can learn to make a new dish in less than a weekend.