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<blockquote data-quote="Marcie Mac" data-source="post: 548173" data-attributes="member: 47"><p>Its interesting reading about the different points of view. Living in Ca, when I was younger, loved a stick shift, which came with a really small car, that went really really fast. After I grew up, and had to commute 45 to 60 miles for a job, in traffic which was a minimum of an hour, let me tell you shifting from first to second to first to second, barely ever getting into third - that got old fast. And I have seen more accidents than I care to in those smallish cars. The love of my life was my Fiat X19, and I was over the moon with them bring back the Fiats again but I had forgotten how tiny they were and as much as I like them, will give them a pass unless we move to a place that has wide open spaces. We just bought a brand new Mazda 5 (seats 6) at a time in our lives when I thought the soccer mom thing was over and done with but a new phase with wheelchairs, etc and ease of getting in for SO and mother in law with plenty of leg room was driving that purchase. Thankfully it gets excellent gas milage</p><p></p><p>I will agree food portions are over the top here. We eat out a lot, but mostly always at buffets where we can enjoy different kinds of ethnic foods. They make money on me because one small plate and I am done, and SO, well, he is not a money making proposition for them LOL My boys, especially difficult child, are fast food junkies. I tried to keep it at a minimum when they were little, but schools here, at lunch, would have it delivered to the lunch room and they had choices of Micky D's, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried. Trying to get them to eat packed lunches was impossible. Its changed now, and they bring in sushi, salads and other ethnic foods (could be because of the neighborhood we live in) . When I was growing up, we always ate fresh made "cafeteria" food - there were no other choices. Watching the boys eating habits now that they are older, Jamie has tapered off a lot off fast food and only eats it after a 12 hour day at work. He loves Fresh and Easy foods that are prepared fresh that day, and when he does cook, its mainly Indian food, and ingrediants must be be organic. Its funny because Jamie is overweight, and Danny, well his food consists of 99% fast food, is really skinny. I guess they were both blessed with totally different metabolisms. And I am one who is always battling with those 20 pounds or so, we went back east last year to Ohio visit my mother, and we were just stunned by the amount of obese people. So much so that SO who never really pays attention to that kind of thing just went "WOW' Every other store front seemed to be a place to eat. I had forgotten growing up back east there was not a lot to do - we did a lot of visiting other relatives and everything revolved around food - doesn't seem like you were there for more than 10 minutes before the table was set. When my cousins took SO and I out to Golden Corral, I had my one plate of mostly veggies, and it was constant hammering by them with "is that all you are going to eat, you really need to eat, I can't believe that is all you are going to eat, you need to try some of this and some of that, you are way too skinny" during the entire meal, meanwhile one cousin had 6 full plates of food (not counting dessert)</p><p></p><p>I had to chuckle about the breakfast cereals. Giving Danny Fruit Loops or other kinds of similar cereals would be a guarantee that i would receive a call from the school about his behavior shortly after his arrival there. He had options of Cheerios or waffles with a drop of maple syrup (he would often gulp that stuff from the bottle so I had to keep it hidden) Lunch money had to be given directly to the school, otherwise, any money in his hands would be spent at the grocery store on sweets before he arrived at school, then I would get "that call" he was out of control. They didn't help any because soda's were readily available for them to purchase. Thankfully he grew out of that -fast forward to today, you couldn't get him to eat anything sweet for any amount of money.</p><p></p><p>But thank you for the perspective - it made for interesting reading and thought</p><p></p><p>Marcie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcie Mac, post: 548173, member: 47"] Its interesting reading about the different points of view. Living in Ca, when I was younger, loved a stick shift, which came with a really small car, that went really really fast. After I grew up, and had to commute 45 to 60 miles for a job, in traffic which was a minimum of an hour, let me tell you shifting from first to second to first to second, barely ever getting into third - that got old fast. And I have seen more accidents than I care to in those smallish cars. The love of my life was my Fiat X19, and I was over the moon with them bring back the Fiats again but I had forgotten how tiny they were and as much as I like them, will give them a pass unless we move to a place that has wide open spaces. We just bought a brand new Mazda 5 (seats 6) at a time in our lives when I thought the soccer mom thing was over and done with but a new phase with wheelchairs, etc and ease of getting in for SO and mother in law with plenty of leg room was driving that purchase. Thankfully it gets excellent gas milage I will agree food portions are over the top here. We eat out a lot, but mostly always at buffets where we can enjoy different kinds of ethnic foods. They make money on me because one small plate and I am done, and SO, well, he is not a money making proposition for them LOL My boys, especially difficult child, are fast food junkies. I tried to keep it at a minimum when they were little, but schools here, at lunch, would have it delivered to the lunch room and they had choices of Micky D's, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried. Trying to get them to eat packed lunches was impossible. Its changed now, and they bring in sushi, salads and other ethnic foods (could be because of the neighborhood we live in) . When I was growing up, we always ate fresh made "cafeteria" food - there were no other choices. Watching the boys eating habits now that they are older, Jamie has tapered off a lot off fast food and only eats it after a 12 hour day at work. He loves Fresh and Easy foods that are prepared fresh that day, and when he does cook, its mainly Indian food, and ingrediants must be be organic. Its funny because Jamie is overweight, and Danny, well his food consists of 99% fast food, is really skinny. I guess they were both blessed with totally different metabolisms. And I am one who is always battling with those 20 pounds or so, we went back east last year to Ohio visit my mother, and we were just stunned by the amount of obese people. So much so that SO who never really pays attention to that kind of thing just went "WOW' Every other store front seemed to be a place to eat. I had forgotten growing up back east there was not a lot to do - we did a lot of visiting other relatives and everything revolved around food - doesn't seem like you were there for more than 10 minutes before the table was set. When my cousins took SO and I out to Golden Corral, I had my one plate of mostly veggies, and it was constant hammering by them with "is that all you are going to eat, you really need to eat, I can't believe that is all you are going to eat, you need to try some of this and some of that, you are way too skinny" during the entire meal, meanwhile one cousin had 6 full plates of food (not counting dessert) I had to chuckle about the breakfast cereals. Giving Danny Fruit Loops or other kinds of similar cereals would be a guarantee that i would receive a call from the school about his behavior shortly after his arrival there. He had options of Cheerios or waffles with a drop of maple syrup (he would often gulp that stuff from the bottle so I had to keep it hidden) Lunch money had to be given directly to the school, otherwise, any money in his hands would be spent at the grocery store on sweets before he arrived at school, then I would get "that call" he was out of control. They didn't help any because soda's were readily available for them to purchase. Thankfully he grew out of that -fast forward to today, you couldn't get him to eat anything sweet for any amount of money. But thank you for the perspective - it made for interesting reading and thought Marcie [/QUOTE]
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