Is fast food your guilty parenting secret?
Our editor had an uneasy feeling recently: she realised that her family had had takeout food three times in one week.
Of course, she’s a working mom married to a working dad, so the pressure on their time is immense, but three times in one week exceeded her comfort zone- It’s hard not to feel a little guilty when meals come in a box instead of being the fruit of hours of labour in a hot kitchen.
There are healthy takeout options at most places, so perhaps it’s not that evil. If you’re a parent under pressure, then it allows you to spend more time helping with homework, or having a laugh about all the funny things life throws at you.
Family time around a stove in a cosy kitchen is special, but there’s no need for takeaway guilt, if you do it right.
Here are a few more articles relating to fast foods:
How often do your kids eat out?
Should fast food TV ads be banned?
The unhealthy generation
Is junk food abuse?
What SA is doing about its fat kids
How about your family? Where do your meals come from?
By: Scott Dunlop