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Default Stuff you ate as a kid-but you know is bad for you now but......

Jessica V. wrote:

> Kswck wrote:
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>>Try convincing a child that McDonald's is not good for you.
>>That stuff doesn't even qualify as 'food'.

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> I haven't had a problem doing such. When going on school trips that
> include a fast food place for lunch or dinner my DD takes a bag lunch.
> She gets a kick out of being able to gross out her friends with the
> "weird" foods that she likes. A week or so ago she took cold somen
> noodles with Thai peanut sauce for lunch; then promptly bragged about
> how gross her friends thought it was that she was eating "spaghetti &
> peanut butter." To which she asked one of them, "how can you think
> this is gross when you like Hamburger Helper?"
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> Jessica
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That's too cute! Our kids were never indoctrined into the *holy grail
of fast food* and now as adults don't eat it. I can't recall ever buying
HH but I have a couple of hamburger casseroles that I make.