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It’s sad and it’s hard all at the same time. I have kids and I try my best to buy “healthy snacks” but everything even organic products are either full of sugar or seed oils. My kids don’t eat perfect but we try our best to avoid the more processed junk foods that most of the kids around my kids eat.

joemack 1y ago

Yes it's a constant battle in our culture. Church, school, grocery store, bank... Always it's a special treat.

We used to collect the kids candy they brought home from school and buy it back. We would fill up giant gallon pickle jars.

I brought up the topic in the community parent teacher council and they all said they don't see that much candy. 🤦‍♂️

After we started homeschooling 2 years ago we don't collect nearly as much junk.

The exception is Halloween. We offer to buy back 90+% of the candy. This last year all the kids pooled their candy and we bought them Tears of the Kingdom. They thought it a very worthy trade. It was cheaper than a single cavity filling.

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Kristin Carrera 1y ago

Parents usually don’t see the problem. I see all the time with my kids friends, the lunches on field trips and snacks are usually all processed foods.

I usually allow my kids to pick 1-2 candies or chocolate if they get something from a birthday at school and the rest goes in the garbage. It’s hard when it’s all around them. At home we don’t eat any candy. We make our own ice cream which the kids love.

Definitely easier to keep it away when homeschooling. I definitely applaud you on that, I don’t have the patience to homeschool 😅 we are doing summer work and I’m over it 🤣