Sometimes The Things I See Shock Me! - Page 3

[MommyKelly]

Originally Posted by mistymama

Sometimes I like to go eat lunch with ds (1st grade, public school) - and it never ceases to amaze me the things kids have in their lunches. One kid pulled out a baloney sandwhich on white bread, chips ahoy cookies, a red jello cup & coke. NO JOKE.

Thats how my lunches were in school. LOL My Mom taught me ZERO good eating habits. Whats worse is when I was a senior she would buy me little bags of cheetos, and Dr pepper to take to school. I WAS PREGNANT! LOL

Thank goodness I was able to learn about nutrition on my own later on.

[AFWife]

Originally Posted by desertpenguin

i remember earlier this year when my friend offered me some juice and said "it has antioxidants in it!" and pointing at the spiffy label. i was like "doesn't all 100% juice have antioxidants in it????" then she was kinda embarrassed.

Speaking of antioxidants... You know that Cherry 7Up? It proudly says "With antioxidants on it" and then in little bitty letters kind of hidden on the can it says "Contains 0% juice" I'm still confused how that works out...

It doesn't shock me how people eat...because I used to be one of those people. My roommate/suitemate in college was one of those people (I can't tell you how many meals she ate that were just Doritos and Fritos Bean Dip...) I really just hate the commercials that talk about how much better processed food is for you. Oh, like the Sunny D commercials. It's got all this great stuff in it, supposedly. And it's the SAME things that OJ has.

[LeahBoo]

At my high school, one of the lunch options was a snack bar type thing. Every day my freshman year, I ate frosted animal cookies, sun chips, a fruit rollup, and a sunny-d.

EW!

[Marylizah]

Originally Posted by LauraLoo

The other day I went to the beach with a friend who brought store bought, organic fruit juice frozen pops for her children, and had extra for my kids. She was boasting that they were so good for her kids and gave me the label to read. Of course, the 2nd ingredient on the list was sugar. They were loaded with sugar, and not even organic sugar. I said nothing because I didn't know where to start.

Granted, the organic part is great, but the million grams of sugar kind of outweighed any benefit that I saw. Seems like people now associate anything *organic* with healthy, and that isn't necessarily always the case.

I totally get what you are saying, but if my child wants a sweet, frozen snack I would prefer 1,000,000 % that the snack contain actual sugar and not HFCS.

Of course, I wouldn't say they were good for my kid, but they would definitely be better than the alternative!

But, on-topic, a lot of people really have no clue. Our culture is oriented towards speed and convenience, and whole foods are not as speedy or convenient as the packaged stuff....

[onelilguysmommy]

Originally Posted by AFWife

Speaking of antioxidants... You know that Cherry 7Up? It proudly says "With antioxidants on it" and then in little bitty letters kind of hidden on the can it says "Contains 0% juice" I'm still confused how that works out...

It doesn't shock me how people eat...because I used to be one of those people. My roommate/suitemate in college was one of those people (I can't tell you how many meals she ate that were just Doritos and Fritos Bean Dip...) I really just hate the commercials that talk about how much better processed food is for you. Oh, like the Sunny D commercials. It's got all this great stuff in it, supposedly. And it's the SAME things that OJ has.

I got some for free and tried it.
It tastes like chemicals (to me. Normal 7-UP just tastes super funky sweet, not chemically to me.)
Theres vitamin e in it if I remember right.

[LauraLoo]

Originally Posted by Marylizah

I totally get what you are saying, but if my child wants a sweet, frozen snack I would prefer 1,000,000 % that the snack contain actual sugar and not HFCS.

Of course, I wouldn't say they were good for my kid, but they would definitely be better than the alternative!

Absolutely! If they had had HFCS, I probably would have said something because we are avoiding HFCS like the plague. Sugar I can live with in moderation, but still would have preferred that they were 100% fruit, of course.

[funkymamajoy]

Originally Posted by choli

Are people really "shocked" by these things or do they just love the opportunity to feel superior?

What people eat doesn't shock me. Heck, I like to indulge on occasion. But the blatant lying and spin in advertising shocks me. Although, I guess I should be used to it by now.