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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Would that be in the household? Because if that wasn't allowed for us to eat, it wasn't in the house. Soda wasn't part of what was in the refrigerator because it wasn't allowed as part of the our diet.
In fact, the more I think about this above quote the more it speaks to me that it's about PROCESSED foods versus HOME COOKED meals.
I don't see anywhere in the article that the parents cooked, in fact at the tail end of the article a nanny stated that she provided fruits out of her own pocket.
Now yes, as you stated it would be great that parents had one parent to stay home. But my parents didn't, and I still got home cooked meals.
If am disciplined enough to cook on Sunday, there's home cooked meals all week and both my wife and I work.
In my opinion it's a cop out to say you cannot cook.
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Yes, it could be in the house. Perhaps parents want to have the kids wait till a certain age to eat the crappier foods or they want to regulate their intake of those things. Maybe some nannies are given a set budget that they can spend on getting grocieries for the kids and those are the rules for the budget.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
You can not cook and still eat healthy. Its more lack of any effort if you ask me.
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Exactly. Also you can cook all your own meals and eat like shit. It's amazing how much information you can get from READING THE LABEL. Yogurt Brand X advertises itself as a healthy snack but its loaded with sugar, HFCS, and has no live cultures. Brand Y has minimal sugar, live cultures and no HFCS.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
If you can afford a nanny you can afford to stay home.
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In many cases, yes, but not necessarily. Maybe half of the second income goes to the nanny but you still need the other half of it if you don't want to move to the shitty part of town.
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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
The fact of the matter is that we do need to be concerned with feeding children healthy foods, but if parents get too neurotic about what their child is eating, they need to take responsibility for it, or pay their employee more to take care of it.
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Thats the employee/employer relationship. Parents need to make their desires clear and the nanny needs to decide if those are reasonable requests.
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Originally Posted by ngdawg
I fed them canned spaghetti, microwavable mac and cheese, they snacked on teddy grahams. I also chopped up raw spinach and put that in some of their meals, they ate bananas and apples, yogurts, and yes, hotdogs. Guess what? My kids have been so healthy, they have almost perfect attendance in their 10 years of school (my son went two years without a day off). Meanwhile, my fellow mothers who feed their kids so-called 'healthy' foods (read: salads for dinner, chicken and fish, very little fast food) always talk about how sick their kids were/are at any given time.
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Yes, your experiences should apply to everyone because 'you and your friends' are a representative sample size. We should all feed our kids processes crap and there is no correlation between increased consumption of processed foods and obesity rates.