power i;1039850 wrote:You can't blame fast food. Those were around when I was a kid (just not on every corner) and we considered eating at a fast food restuarant a real treat. For too many kids today, it's a way of life. I have four kids and understand very well that time can be an issue. If my kids were eating fast food, it was on the way to practice or a ballgame. But alot of those times that was me being lazy and not taking the half an hour it takes to make something for dinner. But my kids never had a weight issue and trust me if they had, there wouldn't have been ANY fast food.
Fn BINGO,
I grew up in a family where we ate home meals almost all the time. Mom worked 40+ hours so many times it was something in the crock pot, leftovers, some casserole she whips up the night before or in the AM and I would put in the oven when home from school. Every couple of she would pick up a pizza on the way home, or chicken from the local place. Not saying we were The Waltons and sat around the kitchen table at the same time and ate. That didnt happen often becuase all of us kids were always in some activities but we pretty much always had mels from home
Going out to eat? It was very rare. Our "out to eat" treat was when enough of us kids garned up enough "book it" points from Pizza Hut and we would go.
My wife on the other hand is totally opposite. It is at least once a day she will get food from some restaurant or drive through. we go around and around about it all the time. It is more expensive, less healthy but that is just how she has always been in taking the easy way out.
Nowadays it is the NORM for people with kids to order out and go through FF, where it used to be more of a treat to do so
