WARNING: Soapbox ahead 😉 I don’t even want to get started on the “Honey Boo Boo” disaster, but I will say that watching a child eat cheeseballs for breakfast is not a comedy. I could probably write a book on this family… I just hope they’re acting & most of it’s not true.
Today I caught the end of that Wife Swap show on Lifetime… this episode was an extremely health-conscious family swapping with a family who ate only junk food. I know they beef up the details and the script for entertainment purposes, but it was obvious the family knew nothing on the subject of nutrition (stating they’d fry up a salad if they could). At the end of the show they’re supposed to talk about how the swap helped them and the positive qualities they took from the other family. The junk food mom stated that she was going to try to cook at least 2 healthy meals a week. (If you eat 21 meals a week, that’s about 10% healthy food… not gonna cut it.) They then showed a scene where she had ONE grape and ONE baby carrot stick lying on the table in front of a mountain of chicken nuggets. She said “if you eat that grape and that carrot you can have all these nuggets.” The little boy said no of course, because he had obviously never been told what to eat before, and she said “oh well, at least you tried.” Smh. The poor little boy was overweight, along with his entire family. Continue reading
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