Experienced Bad Mom Goes Grocery Shopping

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I ran into a neighbor while grocery shopping last week. She’s the mother of two teenagers. As we chatted, I glanced into her basket. It held nothing but healthy stuff: apples, broccoli, whole wheat flour, etc. Everything was good for you.

Meanwhile, my cart was overflowing with crap. I did have apples, bananas, and baby carrots buried at the bottom, and I don’t think my family eats atrociously, but really my cart was a mish-mash of tasty treats, stuff we should eat (but probably won’t), and stuff that’s on sale:

The top layer of my grocery cart

I think I literally tried draping myself across my cart, batting my eyes, and making sweeping hand gestures to distract, distract, distract!

Plus, don’t forget this is what I feed my kids when my husband’s out of town.

If she starts leaving celery sticks on my front porch for my poor, suffering children, then I’ll know she saw everything.

What’s made you feel embarrassed lately?

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April 9, 2012 By 8 CommentsFiled Under: Experienced Bad Mom, food, shopping Tagged With: , , , ,

I Feel Like Chicken Tonight

I’m coming clean. This is what I fed my kids for dinner one night last week.

I don’t know what’s more disturbing:

1. That it’s a frozen kids meal that consists of mostly beige, processed food,

2. That the box is really trying to claim it’s good for kids: white meat chicken! whole grain! protein!

or

3. That it’s got a Halloween theme and I let my kids eat it in March.

I think the Halloween theme is probably the weirdest thing about these meals. I let the kids pick these out at the store and when they threw Halloween nuggets in the cart (with total excitement), I triple-checked the expiration date (which was December 2012, thank you very much).

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever willingly let your kids eat?

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March 14, 2012 By 3 CommentsFiled Under: Bad Mom, Dad, food, Halloween, shopping, Uncategorized, vegetables Tagged With: , ,