Air? Poison. Water? Poison. The food? You're not gonna believe this...
What it's just getting the little tykes used to adult food?
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.”
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.
Baby food is literally a scam, you can just mush/dice/cut up up the stuff you already eat and let them eat normal food.
Yeah, the baby food products are more useful on the margins for convenience and form-factor. Useful when traveling and you need something that’s shelf stable at room temp, being out of the house and needing safe foods without access to a kitchen, when your kid is screaming at you and you need to feed them something right now, that sort of thing. Feeding your baby “baby food” as their primary source of nutrition is like if an adult decided to get all their meals from a gas station.
I knew a guy who got most of his meals from a gas station.
My mum just made her own baby slop which was largely just boiled veg and chicken blended in large batches then freeze it. Only baby food stuff she'd get was desert things as a treat.
Babies are humans if their food is unpalatable to you its probably shit for them as well.
Also i strongly believe sugary cereals were a psyop to get kids addicted to sweets n shit. How did we get to the point of feeding children bowls of sugar and carbs and assert that as normal? Banana breakfast supremacy
Also i strongly believe sugary cereals were a psyop to get kids addicted to sweets n shit.
The entire American diet is disgustingly sweet. And any cheap processed food is also pumped full of high fructose corn syrup. I'm American and it fails to amaze me that these norms are never challenged.
Apparently non-Americans are usually surprised by how sweet American bread is. I had one friend from Germany whose only semblance of a bread refuge in our rural area was Panera’s bread wall miches.
I'm not that big a hippie but my 5yo has had almost no cereal. We largely (but not militantly) avoid high fructose corn syrup- that cuts out a lot of crap.
Grown adults still eating sugary cereal branded for kids is one of the most pathetic things I have observed since leaving my parents' home.
They will eat name-brand instead of generic. They will eat McDonalds, the most basic slop. Sometimes I look down on people making something from a box, but that is at least cooking, and it is cheap when you factor in time and mental energy. People who buy the expensive low-quality shit shouldn't complain about being broke.
Man I already feel pathetic and most days I'm just trying to push through. Sometimes eating the same poison I grew up eating makes that a little easier.
Do you eat the General Mills brand, or the Malt-O-Meal/store brand?
The $8 Big Mac, or the burgers at the store that cost $1.40 for the patty and $0.60 for everything else? The $3 burrito from Taco Bell, or the 50-cent burrito in an 8-pack from the frozen section?
Exceeding recommended sodium levels is probably not too terrible, not meeting calorie requirements seems really bad.
"I can excuse excessive sodium levels, but I draw the line at caloric restriction."
You can excuse exceeding the recommended sodium levels? Getting infants accustomed to high amounts of salt will warp their tastes and predispose them to the ultrapalatable foods that cause heart disease.
In parenting classes they tell you "don't season the baby food to your own tastes, it's okay if it's bland because their taste buds are hyper-sensitive".
If baby doesn't get enough calories, baby is hungry and cries, then you give baby more food. You can always add more, but you can't take away, like if baby gets too much sodium.
