I’m happy to help you navigate the area, and help you find more affordable healthy options, since when we are down that way we cook at my parent’s house most of the time anyhow.

I made the choice 12 years ago to stay at home, and continue to eat healthy. Do we slip up-yes? But it’s not impossible-even on a tiny income to make healthy food choices.
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A few yrs ago I was where you are now and totally understand. It may take a little more time cutting coupons and choosing the healthier version but it is well worth it. After all, isn’t that why we stay home with our children?

There is plenty of shame and blame that needs to be placed on the food industry, and my issue here is not the message, but the way that it’s being conveyed.

I’d like to say that a banana is about a tenth the price of a box of Lunchables and has a hundred times more health benefits.

In the imperfect scenario you describe (imperfect only that you aren’t swimming in money, perfect in that you’re with your kids) a box of Ritz Crackers and a loaf of Tilamook Cheese costs the same as TWO boxes of Lunchables, is a healthier option and would probably fill up six kids with cheese to spare.

I don’t think you’re a bad mother if you occasionally give kids junk, but I do think you’re a bad citizen if you are marketing these items. The plastic waste is incredible, and the cost is high, both short and long term.

Three things I want to make abundantly clear:

1. I never used anyone’s name, this incident, like most in the momosphere isn’t even on the radar of anyone else, so the only way women would be named is if they point fingers at themselves.

2. When I talk about children and obesity I limit it to morbid obesity, you know the sort that kills you. I recall a fat kid in the neighborhood growing up, but I don’t recall a morbidly obese one.

3. I am picking on the food industry. When you take money from Kraft to hostess a twitter party, you are part of the food industry. There should be the same level of shame associate with Kraft as there is with Marlboro.
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Kelly, the initial comments were the same song that some people have been singing for awhile now, about “hating your children.” Comments that have been eating at me for a long time and just got me fed up. I personally think the attacks on bloggers was an afterthought simply for the sake of spewing more nastiness and pointing more fingers.

While the discussion from the last couple of days did seem to become a bit militant, I think the real issue wasn’t so much that there are people who feed their kids processed foods as much as blog moms who – in their blogs – promote wholesome, healthy foods for their kids but then turn around and jump through hoops for a company like Oscar Mayer because they got some free stuff out of it.

I don’t feed my kids many processed foods – I live in Lima, Peru, and canned foods are practically non-existent, while there is a plethora of fresh and cheap fruits and veggies. But I also have the luxury of time to spend in the kitchen cooking – I spend literally 4 hours a day minimum in the kitchen cooking. If I were working a job and a half outside the home, I’m sure I’d be using a lot more Mac n Cheese and frozen hamburgers.

And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss having cans of cream of mushroom soup to make casseroles with.
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