Modern Buddy

Sorta the opposite with my family: they eat healthy and I don't.

Both of my kids go crazy for those Kashi TLC snack crackers. Wonderful examples of wholesome, natural food: dry, tasteless, and BORING. "TLC" has just gotta stand for "Tastes Like Crap".

Gimme a bag of Cheetos and I'll cross the "shortened life expectancy" bridge when I fall off it!

(Wow, how'd I suddenly become the O.P?)

My 19mo son loves him some cheese and mayonnaise on whole wheat.

What things have you feed your kids that would never touch your lips?

charlie55 wrote: Both of my kids go crazy for those Kashi TLC snack crackers. Wonderful examples of wholesome, natural food: dry, tasteless, and BORING. "TLC" has just gotta stand for "Tastes Like Crap".

These are great.

Enjoy your processed crap.

Thanks, I will.

Cool, carry on.

Mmmmmm.......processed crap.

LilBuddy wrote:What things have you feed your kids that would never touch your lips?

I try to set a good example by eating what they eat. I have to say that Hormel Vienna Sausages are fantastic! My daughter loves them. I have to hide a can to have one for myself.
Read the label and imagine a room full of chickens and a robot. That's the part I love, "mechanically separated chicken". Thank you FDA.

Other tasty items they eat that I have to suffer through with them are:

Fried thin sliced spam on white bread with mustard!

Cheetos!

Little Debbie Star Crunch - hey, anything made by Little Debbie.

Baby Ruth.

Bacon!!

A small baked potato with lots of sour cream, salt, pepper, too much butter, imitation bacon bits, and then some more sour cream.

Circus peanuts! Pure sugar goodness

Orange slices! More pure sugar goodness.

Hot Dogs (even the red ones! )

Anything chocolate.

But only skim milk! All that terrible milk fat is bad, bad!!

Unless its in Blue Bell ice cream.

Why did you start this thread? Now I'm hungry.

Fried fish.

Anything fried. Except pork rinds. I draw the line at pork rinds. Well, most of the time anyway.

My kids are also heavily into peanut butter, which, if I'm not mistaken, is supposed to be pretty good for you. Sometimes they'll just sit there and have a spoonful or two for a snack, and it just makes me gag. While I can handle the occasional PB&J without too much trouble, peanut butter by itself just doesn't do it for me.

I think that a lot of it has to do with how you were raised (food-wise, that is) and the flavors and textures to which you became accustomed. When I was very young, my grandmother did a lot of the cooking. Being from that area, nearly everything was blessed with the Northern Italian Trinity: olive oil, butter, and garlic. So, I guess you could say that I have a congenital predisposition for strongly-flavored fatty foods.

Still. I do like some veggies and encourage the kids to load up on them. My favorite (which my kids can't stand) is to lightly toast a split hero roll in olive oil, rub it with some garlic and salt, smear on some butter, then fill it with either spinach or broccoli rabe. And some bacon bits, if nobody's watching.

charlie55 wrote:My kids are also heavily into peanut butter, which, if I'm not mistaken, is supposed to be pretty good for you.

The non-natural kind is a bit high in sugar, and it's naturally high in fat, but it's the healthy kind of fat and it's high in protein, so as long as you don't OD on the calories, peanut butter is pretty healthy.

My daughter mixes sweet/salty in unique ways. Her version of a taco is a slice of hard salami filled with either apple sauce or strawberry yogurt. She rarely eats fries, but when she does, she has to have yogurt for dipping. She likes apple slices plain, but prefers ranch dressing on them.

Oh, and she has never even tried pop/soda/coke/whatever your region calls it. Her logic: "I don't want to like it." Not bad for a 6-year-old.

Orange Guy wrote:Oh, and she has never even tried pop/soda/coke/whatever your region calls it. Her logic: "I don't want to like it." Not bad for a 6-year-old.

Heck yeah, if you don't start drinking it, you won't keep drinking it. I thank my parents for never giving us soda as kids.

Remember the food groups on the pyramid....fat's one of them!

You need your trans fats, saturated fats, unsaturated fats, hydrogenated vegetable oil, and sugar. Part of your healthy everyday (unhealthy) life style.

Orange Guy wrote:My daughter mixes sweet/salty in unique ways. Her version of a taco is a slice of hard salami filled with either apple sauce or strawberry yogurt. She rarely eats fries, but when she does, she has to have yogurt for dipping. She likes apple slices plain, but prefers ranch dressing on them.

Oh, and she has never even tried pop/soda/coke/whatever your region calls it. Her logic: "I don't want to like it." Not bad for a 6-year-old.

My kids were the same at that age. We never gave them sodas. As a teenager, all of a sudden my son wanted nothing but his usual gallon of milk a day but added excessive mountain dew to his list of must haves. Thought it was cool to suck down as much as he could as fast as he could. I fixed his little red wagon by buying 6 2 liter bottles and told him to have a ball. All you want. He tore through one before he got the stomach ache and waited until the next day to suck down 2 more. Funny, he hasn't touched the other three. Can't imagine why.

Orange Guy wrote:Oh, and she has never even tried pop/soda/coke/whatever your region calls it. Her logic: "I don't want to like it." Not bad for a 6-year-old.

When she gets older and starts to assert her independence from you more, tell her "You'll change your mind about it when you get older. I did." My dad said that to me about coffee, and it stuck with me. Which is why, to this day, I do not drink coffee.

Coming home tonight with my son driving we noticed the ultimate in processed pig has made its return to McDs. Yes, that's right, the McRibb is back for a limited time.

,the art of fried bologna is lost but still a fav here

,nutella french toast

burnt-weenie sammiches,,w/ melted kraft singles

hot dogs w/ canned Poss chili & tater tots

dole pineapple cream cheese spread on white bread,hmm

potted meat and ritz crackers w/ tabasco

fried pork rinds

salted p-nuts poured into a bottle of coke-a-cola (red label)

lil` debbie cakes and a yoo-hoo!!
,,omfg my stomach hurts

Wow! I'd completely forgotten about peanuts poured into a bottle (glass of course) of coke. Yummmmmmy!

Moon pies with a big ole orange belly washer.

sliced raw potatoes.

Snickers dipped in rotel dip.

DennisD wrote:Yes, that's right, the McRibb is back for a limited time.

They keep promising that "limited time" bit, but they keep bringing it back!

TVB wrote:

DennisD wrote:Yes, that's right, the McRibb is back for a limited time.

They keep promising that "limited time" bit, but they keep bringing it back!

But only for a limited tiiiiiime! So buy 6 NOW. Tomorrow they may be gone. For at least 3 months.

The reason they do that is after people buy one they realize they are really not all that and then it takes 3 or 4 months to forget and build up the craving again.

"Order when ready!"

"Uhh, I'll have three McRibbs, extra large fry, extra large coke, two 20mg lipitors and a nitroglycerin refill please."

i thought i was the only one who liked circus peanuts. the front package is always stiff so you have to squeeze the ones in the back to find a soft pack.

bigbropgo wrote:i thought i was the only one who liked circus peanuts. the front package is always stiff so you have to squeeze the ones in the back to find a soft pack.

Yeah, I often wonder who gets stuck with the hard ones. I have a couple of times when my wife bought them but didn't care. I just wanted my circus peanut fix!


Necco Wafers. So good.

DennisD wrote:

bigbropgo wrote:i thought i was the only one who liked circus peanuts. the front package is always stiff so you have to squeeze the ones in the back to find a soft pack.

Yeah, I often wonder who gets stuck with the hard ones. I have a couple of times when my wife bought them but didn't care. I just wanted my circus peanut fix!


Necco Wafers. So good.

I grew up on Twinkies, we all know what kind of shelf life they have, somewhere in the order of 2000000 years!!!
Now one of my favorite snack is a one pound of 'genaric' cheese curls and a three litre bottle of grape soda
With all the presertives in my body it should never decompose!!!

One of the worst things you can hear at a funeral is, "This was so unexpected; he/she was the picture of health". I'd rather continue with my "less than optimal" lifestyle and have them say, "It's a miracle he lived as long as he did".

charlie55 wrote:One of the worst things you can hear at a funeral is, "This was so unexpected; he/she was the picture of health". I'd rather continue with my "less than optimal" lifestyle and have them say, "It's a miracle he lived as long as he did".

Nice one!

In Alaska, my snack was a 6-pack of maple bars and a big orange drank followed by a big grape soda! Now it's a pile of Pecan Sandies with whole cow juice for dunkin'! Then lunch. At 6'-2" and 196 # my Italia does great...cruise at measured 60 and avg 86mpg. Alas, winter approaches so good days are rare.

KRUSTYburger wrote:

Orange Guy wrote:Oh, and she has never even tried pop/soda/coke/whatever your region calls it. Her logic: "I don't want to like it." Not bad for a 6-year-old.

Heck yeah, if you don't start drinking it, you won't keep drinking it. I thank my parents for never giving us soda as kids.

I had the opposite experience. I didn't have soda as a kid and then I went crazy for it as a teenager. Call it my way of rebelling or whatever you will but now I'm hooked. I don't think it was good or bad that my mom didn't buy soda for me, it just was.

I don't have human kids, but if I ever do they'll probably rebel against my husband and I by eating meat. We're both vegetarian.

myras_girls wrote:I don't have human kids, but if I ever do they'll probably rebel against my husband and I by eating meat. We're both vegetarian.

Count on it.

Manna from heaven!

DennisD wrote:

Manna from heaven!

MMmmmmmmmm........
Guess what I'm having for breakfast this morning??
Thanks for the idea!

I HAD to ride out last night just for some circus peanuts too!!!!!