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    July 9, 2008
    Balancing Grocery Budgets, Nutrition, And Convenience

    GroceriesSometimes as a working parent, it is hard to balance good nutrition with your budget and the time you have available for cooking. Of course, it’s hard even if you’re not a working parent, but Elizabeth at Career and Kids says:

    Now, I’m used to working parents being portrayed as the downfall of
    society (that was a joke, relax), but being judged as a working parent
    by what I call the “sancti-foodies” is a new one to me.

    You know the type, when you mention that you saw a dancing pig with
    his hair on fire playing chess at McDonald’s the other day, they
    respond, “Oh, I wouldn’t know, we don’t ‘do’ McDonald’s, you can make a
    healthier, cheaper version of it at home, you know.”

    Working parents, like all parents, have to provide meals for their
    families. The average parent wants to feed their family healthy and
    nutritious meals and stay within a budget, and they try.

    It’s no secret that some meals are fancier that others and some
    meals are more nutritional than others, at least at my house, but it’s
    just life, it’s not because I work.

    Yes, this. I am tired of people who act like you have committed a cardinal sin of parenting if each and every morsel that goes into your kid’s mouth isn’t prepared from scratch, organic, healthy goodness. Sometimes, there just isn’t enough time to make everything from scratch. Often, there just isn’t the budget to make everything organic. And so on and so forth.

    I think the key here is that we do the best we can. Instead of being sanctimonious, why not try saying something like, "Oh, here’s an easy recipe I made from scratch that’s healthy, too." It would go a lot longer way in your world foodie domination, people. ;)


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    Eh…the only people who I hear this crap from are the mommie goody two shoes online. The ones who say they prepare wholesome goodness 3 times a day…but let's get real…..they're probably opening a can of spaghettio's. LOL.

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