Grocery store observation

You hit the nail on the head Elliot, you probably saw a few people with cellphones pressed to their head. We live in a society of immediate gratification, we have little actual time (or we kid ourselves into thinking that), and we want everything fast. Even if it's at the cost of our health. Heck, some of us don't even slow down long enough to know how our food tastes!

Don't know if you've heard about the slow food movement, but it's really an interesting read! http://www.slowfood.com/

yes, people go for what they see as easy and fast. Unfortunately they are killing their kids with crap. When I was a kid soda and chips and pizza all of it were occasional treats, not everyday food. Kids will eat healthy, if you don't give them any choice but healthy they will eat healthy. AND it is not any more expensive to buy fresh and healthy food than it is to buy a butt load of crap, because you eat more crap because it has no nutritional value and you end up hungry 5 minutes later.

I could go on and on, but this is one of my absolute pet peeves about society right now, fat parents creating fat children, it is neglectful on the parents part.

but please don't be so hard on those moms. unless you know the situation you can't judge them.

~Pam

Have to agree with Pam here, I was speaking generally above. Heck fathers can make some hasty decisions as well... and I am most certainly not without fault! Before I lost weight the first time I was 310 lbs. and quite the irresponsible eater. I was still with my ex-wife at the time, and well... kids DO learn from watching!

Cheap stuff is loaded with carbs and trans fat. Lean meat costs more, whole grains cost more, fresh veggies are more expensive than cheap canned stuff loaded with salt. Eating right really is more expensive, but.... the cheap food is expensive too, in the toll it takes on our bodies. Starting with healthful food in small proportions is the way to go! If I could raise my four kids over again, I would do it correctly right from the very beginning, but we don't have children when we are old and wise, we have them when we are young and able to stand the physical stresses of childbirth and child rearing! I do have to say that my children were trained to walk in the store with their arms folded, and they could each have one treat if they behaved the whole time. They each had a turn of picking out their favorite cereal, one each shopping trip, so I bought the generic oat rings and they had a box of "fancy" cereal to share with each other every two weeks. (It was gone the first day.) In the late seventies and early eighties we didn't know all the nutritional stuff we know now! And in the sixties, when I grew up, we had seven or eight food groups. Anybody remember back then? I remember my mom ragging on a woman in the neighborhood who gave her kids 2% milk instead of whole milk because it was less expensive. Mine were all raised on skim, as soon as I learned to drink it myself. So we learn, and we get better, but we have to share what we have learned, and keep on learning!

If all this information was out there for me when I was a young mom, I to would have done better. Especially with so much information available on the Internet now , there is probably a computer in every home at 50 dollars a month......cell phones , probably at least two or more in every home,.....satellite or cable tv in every home....40,000 dollar SUV's . It was as someone mentioned on tv the other day that some people will go buy their children 300 dollar pair of tennis shoes and not get the real necessities they need. I am in no way bad mouthing all the mom's and dad's , but I was ignorant to how important nutritious foods were , there is no reason not to know these days. Priority is way out of proportion these days, my nieces and nephews at age 3 to 8 were demanding the latest video game machine at that time only 300 dollars and 35 dollars for each game. And their mother was feeding them on food stamps. I guess I am just venting, but something just isn't right.:grumble: