Parent: Ok what do you want to eat?
Child: McDonald’s
Home cooked!!!
Parent: OK get your jacket so we can go.
To often I hear this same method take place when it’s time for children to eat. When I was growing up I never new what a McDonald’s or Burger King was until I was about 10. I did have the experience of eating at ethnic restaurants and the occasional sandwich from the corner store, but the supermarket was my favorite place to visit when it came to food. When children think of food most of the time they never think to say lets cook some hamburgers at home or bake some BBQ chicken. Its an automatic store run. It is perceived also buy the parents to be easier, with the growth of parents having no time but more economic stability to purchase food, not from a grocery store but from a burger spot to replenish themselves. We need to make a consistent effort to reeducate the parents to start to educate the children to a better balance in how we sustain our energy.
