You may have seen the Sweet Surprise ads. A woman pours a purple fruit-like drink at a kid’s party. Her (rude) guest makes the statement, “Wow…you don’t care what the kids eat, huh?” In the second ad, a woman offers her man a popsicle, and he replies “I thought you loved me…its got high fructose corn syrup in it…” [...]
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Leaving her comment…(guest blog)
Posted in Feeding our Children, tagged children, food, nutrition on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The following was written by my BFF in response to my last post. Because I found it relevant and well-written, and because my brain is currently taking inventory this weekend, I am posting it instead of writing an original thought. Enjoy and stay tuned…
Humans have a wide range of emotions – not excluding passion – that are all [...]
Taking Candy From Babies
Posted in Feeding our Children, Maternal Lessons, tagged childhood obesity, children, family, nutrition, sugar on February 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The woman at the drive-thru bank window smiles and winks when she pushes back my deposit receipt accompanied by a Dum Dum sucker. I thank her, sigh heavily and toss it into the passenger seat, bracing myself for the round of justifications from Quinn as to why he SHOULD have that sucker at 8:30 a.m.
Oh come on, you think, poor kid, just [...]
Culinary Feminism (or) Brown Baggin’ It
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Feeding our Children, tagged Barbara Kingsolver, family, feminism, food, Packing lunches on August 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A couple of my friends raised a collective eyebrow when they learned that I packed my husband’s lunch. To their credit, they were also old college friends who had seen me through women’s studies classes and unshaved armpits. They seemed surprised I had caved to The Man. If their husbands wanted a lunch, they would have to [...]
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