Food (heh) for thought

Found this on FB today and thought it might resonate with some of you. Seemed appropriate in light of our food discussion today.

I’ve railed against the snack culture before — from the time, when my boys were a baby and a toddler and we showed up for a bookstore story time, at 10 a.m., and were the only family there without a lunchbox full of snacks — to recently, when I glanced around the poolside while I watched the kids’ swim lessons, and saw parent after parent, chatting with each other, reading, or texting, and pulling bags of Cheerios and chips and crackers and Goldfish out of their bags for the younger kids. I do get that toddlers’ tiny tummies require more frequent filling, but come on.

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