Prepackaged food, Boxed dinners, junk food, etc...

[emmy526]

Who buys those things to feed their family with?  Frozen dinners, boxed dinners you make adding water and the packets in the box...canned meals, ready to eat junk...who buys it?  

[rec104]

I do

[Behindthelense]

I do sometimes.

[deltadawn1975]

 we use tv dinners and quick to cook stuff when we are rushed for time or it is way too hot outside to do a lot of cooking.

[noTimetothink]

i will buy a family box of mac and cheese(there is 8 boxes in this one big box) and it will last me maybe 3 to 4 months. i use it as a qiuck fix when plans change and we have to leave fast or something. i dont like it, to much salt. my dh buys corndogs but he is the only one that eats them, and his teen son, my 3 kids dont like them. i do stock up on frozen veggies, i hate canned and fresh go bad so fast.....i will buy fresh if i know i am going to use it within a week. i can not stand "fake meats" i call them fake because it does not taste like the real thing to me.

[embersparkle]

 I do, but its not all the time. Sometimes I just want something I can make fast and easy.

[sourflower]

I do.

[OxbAbIebxO]

Kraft Mac and cheese is as far as we go. My son loves it. But obviously he doesnt eat it every day.

[Fairegirl33]

 We buy and eat them sometimes...

[LntLckrsCmQut]

I agree with emmy. I'm gone 11-12 hours a day and still cook a healthy meal. My 17 year old knows how to cook because I am very adamant about children being in the kitchen as much as possible. He was cooking whole meals by the time he was 10. Dude can throw down. lol Time doesn't have to be a reason to eat crap food. On my days off, the kids and I (17 and 5) get in the kitchen and make pre made meals for the days I just don't feel like making anything. My husband/son can just toss it in the oven and let it go. We also utilize our crock pot a lot, which is a great time saver.

Quoting CDMelty:

You only work 40 hours a week, they're all during the day, and your kid is 17. Tell me my defense of packaged food is somehow insulting when you work 12hr swing shifts and your kids are 10 and 11.

And I never said all poor people eat that food. I said poor people eat that food. Maybe you could ask your 17yo to tutor you in English comprehension. If all poodles are dogs, it doesn't mean all dogs are poodles. If poor people eat Kraft, it doesn't mean that all poor people eat Kraft or that only poor people eat Kraft.

Quoting emmy526:

i'm far from rich, make poverty wages,  and work 40hours a week, still cook and bake from scratch, and have taught my kids to do the same.  I don't get home til after 6, and its usually my 17yr old dd who makes dinner--from scratch, and has been for the last 4 years, since i've let her use the stove.   

That's a really lame generalization to use.  

Quoting CDMelty:

Poor people who work too many hours to have time for making dinners from scratch, or whose kids have to make their own dinner while Mom and Dad are at work.

[momtoBrenna]

We buy a 75/25 mix of healthy to junk. We are working towards a 90/10 ratio as I don't think we should cut it all out. Forbidding foods can backfire when they are out of the house so we want them to be able to have some icecream, etc., here and there.