I never bought a sugared cereal for my kids,or any other junk food,no matter how they pleaded.
That’s what parents do.
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I never did either-no sodas, and only fresh, unprocessed, non-canned food for meals-and we packed her lunch for school, too. The cub loved oatmeal for breakfast-sweetened with local produced honey-the poor, deprived child didn’t have a chance to eat unhealthy stuff with both her parents having been ranch raised. She never appreciated the way she ate at home until she went off to college and was introduced to dorm food-then she couldn’t wait to get home to eat on weekends...