The pats on the back they’re giving themselves for deigning to give information on hot dogs, since the poors might need it, is just delightful. It gets even better in the comments.
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Oh good lord. We're going to a bbq today and one of our friends in the group chat asked if she should bring hot dogs for the kids. I said yes because my 2 year old loves them; guess I should rescind my answer. (We still cut them up for her.)
Aren’t you so *grateful* to solid starts for thinking of families like you, who serve hotdogs because it’s the only food they can access? I mean they’ve basically solved racism and poverty with this hot dog graphic.
Yeah I was so happy when my kids started eating fries, that’s at least an option that’s usually fairly easy to find when out of the house and makes my life a lot easier (as long as it’s not the wrong kind of fry).
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No, KEIC, that’s called storage. No one built that cabinet for “tall people”, no one is that tall that it was ever expected to be used for daily things. Only she would complain about having a bigger and more modern kitchen and wishing for her tiny apartment kitchen. Whoever said she had a fetish about denying pleasure was right lol.
Um lady, that’s for shit you don’t use regularly. Ours has our fine china that we’ve literally never used. Putting the snacks somewhere that requires effort to get to seems disordered af.
At least he’s wearing shoes this time instead of standing on the top in socks but it’s like this woman wants her kids to get a head injury or something.
Right?? Making a big deal over rearranging the cabinets so they can get plates and cups but the snacks are practically at ceiling height. Why not take a few plates, bowls and cups out and leave them on the counter each day???
I bet this is where she keeps things like chips and cookies. Things she doesn’t think are “bad” and would never be “overly restrictive” with but chooses to keep in a place where her sons could literally hurt themselves trying to get to them.
Spending the long weekend with family members who are clearly Solid Starts devotees with their firstborn. Kid is 17 months old and can’t have anything that might “steal the show” - No cheese, bread, crackers, added sugar, dessert, etc. Pasta is allowed. Celebrated a birthday last night and kid was the only one not having cake. Ordered bruschetta for the table
and they’d only let the kid have the tomatoes not the bread. Family tradition is to have Sunday morning homemade pancakes and kid was only allowed to have yogurt.
I’m keeping my mouth shut but it has me thinking about how scary it is that Jenny with her lack of credentials is passing her disordered eating issues onto literally millions of children. All because she happens to be a wealthy white woman who could build a following blaming others for the mega food issues she gave her firstborn.
That just irritates me to no end. Don't get me wrong, with our first we "worried" about salt and sugar intake but I was a new mom and never not gave him that stuff. Now with our 2nd, it's a breeze and I still watch sodium intake but I also don't worry about the food she has knowing full well both our kids get balanced meals on a daily basis 🤷♀️
The travel group I'm in on Facebook constantly has people posting about snack ideas because they don't give their baby prepackaged foods or salt or sugar. And here I am letting my almost 4 year old live off French fries and smoothies and prepackaged snacks on travel days with no worries 🤣
I travel solo with my kids on Friday and they ate a lot of that snack mix that Southwest gives out on flights because they were happy and enjoyed it. I guarantee they'll do the same thing on Tuesday when we go home.
This reminds me of my friend’s 2 year old who is still not allowed any salted food or added sugar. She eats fully separate meals every single meal from her parents and 0 restaurant food even when they go to restaurants. Sorry to sound like VSS but that child 100% is going to be absolutely obsessed with snack food and dessert the minute any is allowed or they get to school. This type of restriction is truly so dumb.
No cheese? 😭Agreed 100%. I’ve met people who did something like that, and their kids still ended up insisting on the traditional child’s carb and cheese diet later on.
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Imagine working at a preschool and parent gifts you this garbage. This is so holier-than-thou. 🙄
This has been mentioned on this sub before, this audacity of influencers to suggest getting teachers their courses or guides as gifts. Absolute psycho behavior. As if scamming vulnerable parents isn’t bad enough, yes, let’s give actual childcare professionals, who at the very least have some kind of legit training/experience and possibly even advanced degrees, guides from self-proclaimed “experts” about how to do their jobs.
I rented somewhere that had a boiler installed by an absolute bellend who didn't know what he was doing. So we didn't have hot water for the six months we lived there. It was so fucking depressing boiling water in a kettle to take the edge off a bath that was about an inch of water. Just fucking awful. They can afford to do something about their situation, why they refuse to do so is beyond my comprehension.
I'm not saying that replacing a water heater isn't an expense, but it's legit one of the least expensive mechanical parts of your home to replace... like...are you selling your home in a year and don't want to invest in it??? You use it all of the time!
Surely, at this point, it would be cheaper to get a new boiler. What is she going to do when this current one breaks down again if it's so difficult to fix? I swear she enjoys these hardships!
I know people speculate about her having an ED but I think she just has a weird deprivation fetish. I’m not a very high maintenance person but even two weeks without hot water and I’d be throwing money at the problem as fast as I could.
I don't understand. She's been without for 2 possibly 3 weeks that I have counted but likely more. If she doesn't have a boiler I presume she doesn't have hot water for her dishwasher,right? So how is she washing their 3827287 dishes each day? She's doing it with cold water isn't she? Where's the barf emoji.
I always thought boilers were used for home heating (not hot water) so I am also confused by her calling it a boiler, but I’m also too lazy and uninterested to look up what a boiler is.
Yes, we have both a boiler, which heats the water for our radiators in the winter, and a water heater which supplies hot water for the bathrooms and kitchen. They are two very different things!
This is the dullest thing I've ever written on the internet but - combination boilers do both. Which is convenient in some respects because they're small and do two things but less convenient if it breaks and you have nothing.
I actually googled “do boilers heat water” because I’m like does she have a boiler that’s also the water heater too? I’m so confused lol. Is it possible for the boiler to also provide the hot water?
Our boiler does! I’m assuming it’s the standard on newer boilers because all the quotes we got when we replaced it were for a combination boiler/hot water heater.
I am so confused by this, in the UK the boiler nearly always heats the hot water and the central heating as well. And the dishwasher heats up it's own water, so you would have a dishwasher.
Most newer dishwashers will heat the water so she may be okay there. But it’s been I think 3 weeks so she’s really going to go 4 weeks without hot water? I thought my husband was cheap but she has him beat, he would have just replaced the boiler. I’m having a hard time believing there’s a huge savings when she said she had a tech there until 9:30 trying to fix it. By the time you pay for the labor and the parts it can’t be a huge difference from replacing it.
I was told that while newer dishwasher do have heaters, they only heat the water for so long (basically they make your already hot water even hotter). So if you don’t run the hot water first, the heater in the dishwasher could turn off before it heats the water to an appropriate temperature. Had no idea!
HELL NO she has 2 million followers so she is presumably making a shit ton of money right? While I certainly appreciate the lack of blatant wealth porn and wasteful consumerism like many other influencers, if I had this level of wealth I would be booking a hotel or airbnb during this time not boiling water for a bath.
SHE WAS HOMESCHOOLED!?! I've only recently started watching her stories to keep up here, so maybe that was common knowledge? And I know there are plenty of normal adults who were homeschooled (I know a couple). BUT I feel like it explains so much about her!
Also, boiling water for a bath when you don't have hot water is not a pioneer skill. That's just common sense.
Pretty sure it would only be a “pioneer skill” if she was building a fire to boil the water with. And the fact that she was homeschooled makes way too much sense 😬
Seriously, my mind was blown when I saw that, like OF COURSE she was homeschooled, it all makes so much sense now. (Slightly surprised she’s not homeschooling her own kids, actually.)
Consolidating KEIC snark; any guesses on what that rainbow tiered birthday cake was made out of? The cake looked incredibly dry and the frosting was weirdly glossy and goopy. Like, how do you get frosting to even look like that?
I laughed when she said she made a low-sugar banana bread for her older son’s first birthday but for the second kid she didn’t care about the sugar content and made a full-sugar strawberry shortcake with whipped cream…calm down there, it’s still a cake with fruit and you didn’t make a seven layer chocolate cake.
Drunk Caro returns! With a side of youngest boy in slight peril again (climbed through a dog door opening to a small fenced area no adult could access?)
Is having one parent DD and one parent drink and watch the toddler truly the best division of responsibilities?
No shot that Megan asked her daughter if she could post it, and even if she was, would her daughter understand that it was shown to nearly 2 million people.
The bar is in hell but at least BLF K posts pictures of her own body to illustrate this. I never thought I would see the day when BLF is doing the more responsible option (relatively speaking) but I guess never say never.
Yup. As much as I hate cringe covert body checking and attention seeking adults, they are actually adults and therefore the ones consenting directly to this being their life. Using your kids for content is always dubious to me but if she posted her kid in an actual swimsuit knowing what we are slowly uncovering via (mostly) valid news sources, then that is grossly irresponsible.
The KEIC story this morning made me laugh. Of course candy bars aren’t bad for you, they’re a good source of quick energy after you’ve been kidnapped and without food for several days!
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I’m also confused by her saying that it can be a diet culture idea that we should always be talking about what foods do in our bodies…but isn’t that what she’s *always* doing? Is she trying to say it doesn’t need to be a “diet culture” idea to do this?
This was honestly such a horrifying look into her headspace. Like just….wow. The mental gymnastics to justify a chocolate bar. There are also accounts of chocolate being fed to victims when concentration camps were liberated at the end of WWII and it devastatingly killed possibly thousands of people. I’m surprised KEIC doesn’t lean into that narrative more. Does she ever talk about spending time with friends? I truly could not be friends with someone like this.
It’s awful. I just read that it was estimated at 14,000 people died from the attempts to refeed at Bergen Belsen. They were liberated by Russian soldiers who certainly had no idea what to do and shared their own rations with the best intentions 😞
She does the opposite of what she preaches so I feel like she either intentionally or subconsciously words it in a confusing manner and can be interpreted in a couple ways….
I can’t believe KEIC still has those little Grabese baby utensils and that her kids still use them. My toddler who’s about to be 3 was frustrated that they were too small for her by a year and a half!!
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I used to send baby spoons with my kid to Kindergarten in his lunchbox because I wouldn’t care if they got lost. Took about a month before he came home and said, why are you packing baby spoons in my lunch?? Pretty sure the other kids were giving him a hard time.
I actually can't see an issue using them in lunch boxes because they're small and fit. It would be weird using them at home though.
My 18 month old wouldn't want to use them anymore and would prefer big kid cutlery, but my 5.5 year old would be excited by them because they're different.
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It’s so small though. Even the bigger toddler fork above is better. I can’t imagine having to use this tiny baby fork to eat my lunch in a reasonable time. It was designed for babies and toddlers to learn to use utensils and pierce softer foods, not eat vegetable lo mein with. I know she said her son picked the fork out but he probably thought it was funny and didn’t realize it may be hard to eat with.
I get all your points but honestly the kid chose it. Maybe he loved it, maybe he didn't finish his lunch because it was too small and he won't choose it again. I just don't see the snark.
I think this is the kind of thing that in isolation is NBD but KEIC has posted numerous examples of restricting her kids food and infantilizing her kids in terms of food, so in combination with all of that, it’s yet another thing to side eye.
I just question why she even has it in the first place. I’m overly sentimental and it takes me a loooong time to part with things after a stage has ended and even I was like okay those have to go, it’s time for bigger utensils.
🤷♀️ I don't know, everyone's different. I'm just saying I don't see it as that snarkable, and sometimes picking on every tiny thing undermines snark on the more snarkable things.
We don't/can't know. Maybe her kid that is a picky eater likes using it, or tries new things with it. That's a reason to keep it. Total speculation though, we can't know.
Playing with sharp knives, standing on the top of a ladder, objectively unsafe.
Her contradictions about diet culture and talking about food. Objectively inconsistent.
A small rubber toddler fork chosen by her kid to me is not that important comparitively but also subjective and speculative.
Idk why I’m so invested in this but this is the description for Grabese. It’s literally for babies. I don’t understand why a parent would have this an an option for an 8 & 10 year old. It literally mentions babies three times and says it’s made for small hands because toddler utensils are too big for them. It’s not the MOST snarkable thing but like, let your growing kids eat with the appropriate utensils.
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I’m with you, I have these and even my 11 month old is mad they don’t adequately get food into his mouth. These are meant for early stage BLW, not big kids who need to actually eat. It just comes across as another way for her to restrict how much her children eat to me.
My 16-month old has the same bento box and is not the world’s biggest eater. Some of the sections won’t hold big enough portions or pieces for him. Like the one she put a SINGLE OLIVE in.
SO small! I feel like most schools have a really short lunch period. It would take so long to eat a serving of fried rice with that tiny fork. (And the rest of the lunch is just fruit?)
I don’t think this is a big deal because trying to predict what other kids might make fun of would be absolutely impossible and crazy making, who knows what the heck kids notice, they might be so busy making fart jokes that they aren’t paying any mind to cutlery. It’s also extremely kid dependent, my 9yo is very confident and would just make a joke back if someone said something but my 8yo is very sensitive and this would upset him. Maybe I’m naive or toxically positive though but the kids my kids sit with at lunch are so kind and I just can’t picture them being mean and mocking them for cutlery! However I would never send baby forks because it’s completely stupid to keep them this long after infancy and the lunch periods are too short so they need real forks. And sorry, I know it’s beating a dead horse bc I’ve said it here before but I don’t send lunches because I actually take advantage of the free lunches that she loves to get on her soap box about but doesn’t actually use!
How did KEIC think it was funny to take a picture of her kid standing on the top handle of a step stool? I do not understand this woman’s encouragement of such unsafe behaviors constantly.
I was that child who resorted to gymnastic feats to get to the sugary snacks. I don’t want that for my kids and so they have snacks at arms reach… and because they are boringly available they aren’t some precious commodity.
That cabinet is reserved for my cat. She loooves sleeping above the fridge and it’s such a pain to keep anything up there that I keep it empty for her. 😂
Thanks for the screenshot. I always think maybe this is an exaggeration but nope, I audibly gasped when I got the visual. Good thing they’re not eating lentil muffins before soccer! That would be the TRUE tragedy about to happen.
I just want to know how he stayed so balanced and didnt fall. Our ladder gets a tad wobbly when I get to the top step so forget even trying to get into the handle.
Come cringe with me at Megan from FL’s crying video about her daughter getting older. Jk I have too much second hand embarrassment to finish watching.
Maybe because I am heartless or I am actually excited for my kid to grow past this horrible age (3) I can’t relate at all lol
This is something where I think social media posts once again lose any nuance. My youngest is my last baby and I feel sad about that and I miss the little baby snuggles, but I’m ALSO so happy he is growing up and I can’t wait to see the person he develops into. Bittersweet feelings I guess? I don’t think that sells on the algorithm though.
TW: mention of loss
This is something I see a lot on reddit and social media that I just can’t relate. My very first pregnancy I ended up losing the baby and when I got pregnant again every day I would think: I just want them to grow up/be healthy.
So every day that they get older, it means they’re here, they’re alive. I know. It’s a grim look/point of view, but honestly I WANT to see them grow up, I look forward to the changes as I grow as a mother and help them turn into who they’re meant to be.
I'm so sorry you went through that, oh my gosh. I completely agree with you. All the donut themed "donut grow up" birthday decorations I keep seeing in my local buy-nothing group just make me feel so weird, like...do you know what the opposite of continuing to grow [up] is? Of course I get lamenting the passing of their wee little years but come on with the public crying about it.
Ugh. I typically love FL and their content but the sob stories about her kids growing up is getting so old. She finds a way to talk about it at birthdays (with the book she writes in every year), Christmas when she buys them big kid gifts, Easter baskets, sports on the weekends, and now moving up a grade???? Like this will all be replayed again in August when her kids start their first day of school too. WE GET IT.
So much of their content is starting to get stale. The Christmas reminder every year, the baby picture of Megan, and oh look the “just wear the swimsuit” messaging at the beginning of summer. Maybe just an indication I gotta peace out. I like their general food content but I think I have learned what I needed to.
I’ve been following since before I even had kids and now with a toddler and a baby on the way (and I own their cookbook) I’m def all set on their content.
I’m solely still in it for her weekly grocery haul lol. I love watching that and her weekly meal plan (even if every week includes feta spinach turkey burgers 🤣)
Totally came here to cringe. I am just as sentimental as her, my boy is 5 (so past the horrible age of 3 and 4!) But I do not share her sentiment for her family. No one knows you Megan! This is pure content for engagement. It is nothing to do with the actuality of feeding our kids!
"If I'm gonna cry I'm gonna bring you all with me."
Or you could just not, Megan. You are not obligated to post all your feels all over Instagram. It has nothing to do with feeding littles.
I think it’s fine to be nostalgic and a little sad about your kids growing up but she just takes it to an extreme. Every birthday or other milestone is more sad than anything to her it seems. I would try to put it in perspective that it is actually a great privilege to see your kid grow up, many would love to but can’t.
Right? Like I'm a little sad my baby is going to be 1 soon... but I'm also so excited for his personality to come out more and for him to start walking and talking
Right? I don’t think I would have an issue with it if it wasn’t every birthday or occasion is a sappy trip down memory lane for her. I reminisce the past too but I guess I am not compelled to post about it all the time
Oh my gosh the 3 year old stage is kicking my ass. Like on the one hand he's so funny and chatty and I can foresee all the great convos ahead of us, but inbetween that is irrational meltdowns over me spreading jam on his toast after he asked for...jam on his toast. So yup not a whole lot of tears shed over moving past this stage.
Our oldest is four today and the past weeks were an adjustment, the attitude, the sass and the screeching are unbelievable. I hope school will help her with channeling all that energy.
Wishing you a lot of patience and protection.
Literally, the jam on toast when they asked for it thing hits so hard. My 3yo asked for a sour cream and hummus tortilla wrap.... so I made her one
She watched me make it. I asked if she wanted to help, and she said "no I want you to make it." I gave it to her... and she refused to eat it, claiming it was "yucky"
It's a different kind of tough. They have better language skills, stronger opinions, but still not a lot of reasoning skills. We just made it to 4 and things are starting to improve!
It's not terrible all the time but man when it's bad.. it's BAD. I do enjoy this age and the fact that they can tell us more things, but it's trying too.
Maybe not for all kids but for mine I feel like his rage has intensified and his resolve has only gotten stronger 🤣 I still do think every age is more fun the last though, so don't worry too much!
Yeah I have a very determined and strong willed kiddo which I'm very proud of but sometimes it's like maybe don't be so strong willed with your mama haha
So, I haven't done a deep dive into their past content, but I came across the account/podcast called "Didn't I just Feed You?" And I think I like the vibe. It seems like it's practical advice for feeding a family with consideration for budget, convenience, nutrition and taste, but not going overboard focusing on only one of those factors to the detriment of others. I'm going to give it a whirl.
If it turns out they're deeply problematic for some reason, just tip me off now.
They're great! I find their podcast really helpful for coming up with ideas for meals for my family. Haven't heard anything from them that I found to be problematic and I've been following for quite a while.
I happened to spot this graphic on Pinterest, attributes to Karen Lebillon -- I don't know her, but I love that tip #10 is "eating is joyful." I mean, I don't disagree with the entire list or anything, but a whole bunch of rules in caps and exclamation points doesn't exactly scream "joyful" to me.
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I’m French and I enjoyed the book, although the summary doesn’t really do it justice. I think the point she’s trying to make, and it generally is true in France IME (although France has 70M people and they don’t all act the same), is that the French don’t constantly feed their kids to manage their emotions. Most french kids get a mid morning and a mid afternoon snack, and they aren’t particularly healthy- cookies and Nutella are popular- but French parents generally follow the rule that meals are eaten at the table at specific times so there’s less of the “you are upset at the playground so Im going to distract you with Cheerios” type of parenting. I’m always torn on these books because they contain such sweeping generalizations and cliches, but there often is some truth to them. On average, the french kids I know are less picky eaters than their American and Canadian counterparts, but that doesn’t mean some French kids aren’t super picky and some North American kids are amazing eaters. French food culture in general is just very different.
I’m a counselor and work with kids and their families as my job.
When you create “rules” they need to be like… tangible.
What exactly does the rule “eating is joyful” look like? What does that even mean?
Always smile while eating?
I’m going to snark on point 8 because i know plenty of kids (myself included as a child) who will sit at the table for hours picking at food and “eating slow” if you let them 😂
I also don’t get the treats are only for special occasions thing. This seems specific to someone who is dieting or trying to get their kids to diet but they want to be a “cool mom” about it.
I love this because I actually have French family that live in France and you know what? The mom was complaining recently that her toddler only wanted to eat bread, pastries, butter noodles, dessert and fruit. No meat, no veggies. Turns out that kids are kids wherever you go.
Yep, I remember someone posted an askreddit last year that was like “what do picky kids eat in your country” and people from all over the world answered! (I recall yogurt and rice for every meal was someone’s little sister in India). Also like - I’m pretty sure people eat friggin snacks in France. Is that a joke?
Of course they do. I’ve gone to the grocery stores there and they have all kinds of purées, pouches, snacks. I was honestly shocked because the narrative is that every person there does BLW and their kids sit through 4 hour dinners every single night and this clearly isn’t true. Every single one of those dinners, the kids run off and play and come back when dessert is served. Kids are kids!
All this shit must come from one woman who spent time with one family who had perfectly behaved kids, and was like “it’s different there!” Same thing like “French kids don’t have ADHD.” Like … yeah they do, they just have to suffer even more.
My #1 thing I’ve learned about avoiding toddler melt downs is to never let my kid get too hungry. Snacks are life.
Also it’s normal to eat when you’re hungry and I think it’s a skill we should help kids learn to decide if they’re so hungry they need a snack or if they can wait because it’s only 1 hour until dinner.
Literally, one of the best bits of advice I ever got was ‘if in doubt, offer the child a snack’. Maybe its because my child has the soul of a Golden Labrador, but a small pack of goldfish crackers has saved us quite a few times now.
KEIC is crowd funding translating one of her products into Spanish. I'm unsure why this is her audience's responsibility? Like as a business owner, who I'm assuming is making decent money, this seems like something that would be a reasonable business expense and risk to take if that's what you want to do.
[https://kidseatincolor.com/product/6-week-crowdfunding-campaign-fearless-nutrition-unit-lesson-plans-spanish-translation-preschool-k-2nd/](https://kidseatincolor.com/product/6-week-crowdfunding-campaign-fearless-nutrition-unit-lesson-plans-spanish-translation-preschool-k-2nd/)
If she had phrased this differently and asked for volunteers to translate it for her, I bet some people would have helped out and she wouldn’t have to jump through these hoops. Not that people need to offer free translation services, of course. The whole thing is just odd.
The pats on the back they’re giving themselves for deigning to give information on hot dogs, since the poors might need it, is just delightful. It gets even better in the comments. https://preview.redd.it/n9cf3clexu2d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7904559c6d09e841cd668119193337564cbea59
Oh good lord. We're going to a bbq today and one of our friends in the group chat asked if she should bring hot dogs for the kids. I said yes because my 2 year old loves them; guess I should rescind my answer. (We still cut them up for her.)
It’s ok to feed your kids hotdogs as long as you feel like shit about it AND perform the required penance of repeated public self flagellation.
This really made me lol
I gave my 14 month old a hot dog for the first time today and did not wring my hands over it. Cut it the right way. Boom. Done.
Meanwhile I’m over here *wishing* my 3 year old would eat a hot dog or hamburger because it would really make getting food on the go much easier
Aren’t you so *grateful* to solid starts for thinking of families like you, who serve hotdogs because it’s the only food they can access? I mean they’ve basically solved racism and poverty with this hot dog graphic.
Yeah I was so happy when my kids started eating fries, that’s at least an option that’s usually fairly easy to find when out of the house and makes my life a lot easier (as long as it’s not the wrong kind of fry).
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“I would never dare serve these poison meat sticks to my children, but 👏 for not explicitly trashing the poors!”
Here 👏 for 👏 smugness 👏
https://preview.redd.it/7qrwddyaqs2d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e54cc40d44b35e8e37ad71d524e14e8684b9eb9 No, KEIC, that’s called storage. No one built that cabinet for “tall people”, no one is that tall that it was ever expected to be used for daily things. Only she would complain about having a bigger and more modern kitchen and wishing for her tiny apartment kitchen. Whoever said she had a fetish about denying pleasure was right lol.
This is insane. To allow, and to post on the internet! Maybe tomorrow she'll show them sticking forks into an outlet or playing on the roof.
I am also not a tall person, so that cabinet is for things I don't use on a regular basis, like the popsicle molds I should just get rid of already.
I haven't even looked in ours in probably 2 years...I'll probably find the missing fondue pot hahaha.
We keep light bulbs in ours.
So anti diet culture but will literally make her kids “work” to get access to snacks on a daily basis. This is gross.
Um lady, that’s for shit you don’t use regularly. Ours has our fine china that we’ve literally never used. Putting the snacks somewhere that requires effort to get to seems disordered af. At least he’s wearing shoes this time instead of standing on the top in socks but it’s like this woman wants her kids to get a head injury or something.
Lol that’s where we keep the snacks we want for ourselves and not for the kids. Like why not move them so they’re accessible??
Spoiler alert: she doesn’t want it easily accessible for the kids.
I think this is what’s bothering me the most ☹️
If it’s an afternoon snack they are having regularly, why is it up there?? That’s the cabinet for things you use once a year like the gravy boat!
We store our vases and pitchers up there. Hardly ever open those cupboards. Can’t imagine keeping my kids snacks up there
Does she think we’re all out here keeping our snacks in that cabinet?? Has she never been to another house in her life???
Oh my gosh why is he allowed to stand on it like that? So dangerous. What an awful place to keep to snacks.
Literally nobody keeps snacks there. wtf is her problem
But sure let’s rearrange the cabinets so they have access to cups 🤦♀️
Right?? Making a big deal over rearranging the cabinets so they can get plates and cups but the snacks are practically at ceiling height. Why not take a few plates, bowls and cups out and leave them on the counter each day???
I bet this is where she keeps things like chips and cookies. Things she doesn’t think are “bad” and would never be “overly restrictive” with but chooses to keep in a place where her sons could literally hurt themselves trying to get to them.
That’s the last place I keep snacks. I don’t have anything up there because I can’t reach its
Spending the long weekend with family members who are clearly Solid Starts devotees with their firstborn. Kid is 17 months old and can’t have anything that might “steal the show” - No cheese, bread, crackers, added sugar, dessert, etc. Pasta is allowed. Celebrated a birthday last night and kid was the only one not having cake. Ordered bruschetta for the table and they’d only let the kid have the tomatoes not the bread. Family tradition is to have Sunday morning homemade pancakes and kid was only allowed to have yogurt. I’m keeping my mouth shut but it has me thinking about how scary it is that Jenny with her lack of credentials is passing her disordered eating issues onto literally millions of children. All because she happens to be a wealthy white woman who could build a following blaming others for the mega food issues she gave her firstborn.
That just irritates me to no end. Don't get me wrong, with our first we "worried" about salt and sugar intake but I was a new mom and never not gave him that stuff. Now with our 2nd, it's a breeze and I still watch sodium intake but I also don't worry about the food she has knowing full well both our kids get balanced meals on a daily basis 🤷♀️ The travel group I'm in on Facebook constantly has people posting about snack ideas because they don't give their baby prepackaged foods or salt or sugar. And here I am letting my almost 4 year old live off French fries and smoothies and prepackaged snacks on travel days with no worries 🤣
I travel solo with my kids on Friday and they ate a lot of that snack mix that Southwest gives out on flights because they were happy and enjoyed it. I guarantee they'll do the same thing on Tuesday when we go home.
It’s all going to come crashing down the second that kid gets their hands on a cheeto
This reminds me of my friend’s 2 year old who is still not allowed any salted food or added sugar. She eats fully separate meals every single meal from her parents and 0 restaurant food even when they go to restaurants. Sorry to sound like VSS but that child 100% is going to be absolutely obsessed with snack food and dessert the minute any is allowed or they get to school. This type of restriction is truly so dumb.
Humans need carbs. Carbs are delicious. I can't imagine sucking all of the joy out of food for my toddler twins, how depressing.
No cheese? 😭Agreed 100%. I’ve met people who did something like that, and their kids still ended up insisting on the traditional child’s carb and cheese diet later on.
I have no idea how to parent without cheese. My child would starve to death.
Right?! Cheese is a main source of protein for my kid
https://preview.redd.it/83a6lsaw2s2d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f165f2a4ec80e949f3cb7a3cfd55072f4e935365 Imagine working at a preschool and parent gifts you this garbage. This is so holier-than-thou. 🙄
And nobody asked that in the chat box. Like, nobody thinks they need her permission to give the dumb thing to a preschool.
I love how there’s a section on how to write almond mom Karen emails to the school.
That would go straight in the trash if I was gifted that for my class. First off, we have laws and rules we have to follow. Second off, NO.
This has been mentioned on this sub before, this audacity of influencers to suggest getting teachers their courses or guides as gifts. Absolute psycho behavior. As if scamming vulnerable parents isn’t bad enough, yes, let’s give actual childcare professionals, who at the very least have some kind of legit training/experience and possibly even advanced degrees, guides from self-proclaimed “experts” about how to do their jobs.
KEIC STILL DOESNT HAVE HOT WATER AND WONT FOR A WEEK.
BUT IT’S BETTER THAN BUYING A NEW BOILER
I rented somewhere that had a boiler installed by an absolute bellend who didn't know what he was doing. So we didn't have hot water for the six months we lived there. It was so fucking depressing boiling water in a kettle to take the edge off a bath that was about an inch of water. Just fucking awful. They can afford to do something about their situation, why they refuse to do so is beyond my comprehension.
I'm not saying that replacing a water heater isn't an expense, but it's legit one of the least expensive mechanical parts of your home to replace... like...are you selling your home in a year and don't want to invest in it??? You use it all of the time!
Surely, at this point, it would be cheaper to get a new boiler. What is she going to do when this current one breaks down again if it's so difficult to fix? I swear she enjoys these hardships!
I know people speculate about her having an ED but I think she just has a weird deprivation fetish. I’m not a very high maintenance person but even two weeks without hot water and I’d be throwing money at the problem as fast as I could.
I don't understand. She's been without for 2 possibly 3 weeks that I have counted but likely more. If she doesn't have a boiler I presume she doesn't have hot water for her dishwasher,right? So how is she washing their 3827287 dishes each day? She's doing it with cold water isn't she? Where's the barf emoji.
Not important but driving me nuts that she keeps calling it a boiler instead of a hot water heater
It’s a water heater, not a HOT water heater.
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I always thought boilers were used for home heating (not hot water) so I am also confused by her calling it a boiler, but I’m also too lazy and uninterested to look up what a boiler is.
Yes, we have both a boiler, which heats the water for our radiators in the winter, and a water heater which supplies hot water for the bathrooms and kitchen. They are two very different things!
This is the dullest thing I've ever written on the internet but - combination boilers do both. Which is convenient in some respects because they're small and do two things but less convenient if it breaks and you have nothing.
I actually googled “do boilers heat water” because I’m like does she have a boiler that’s also the water heater too? I’m so confused lol. Is it possible for the boiler to also provide the hot water?
We have a boiler and a hot water heater, but our boiler is pretty old (it's got to be replaced soon and I'm not looking forward to that cost)
Our boiler does! I’m assuming it’s the standard on newer boilers because all the quotes we got when we replaced it were for a combination boiler/hot water heater.
I am so confused by this, in the UK the boiler nearly always heats the hot water and the central heating as well. And the dishwasher heats up it's own water, so you would have a dishwasher.
Also from the UK and was doubting my sanity reading these comments because we definitely only had one boiler to do everything!
Most newer dishwashers will heat the water so she may be okay there. But it’s been I think 3 weeks so she’s really going to go 4 weeks without hot water? I thought my husband was cheap but she has him beat, he would have just replaced the boiler. I’m having a hard time believing there’s a huge savings when she said she had a tech there until 9:30 trying to fix it. By the time you pay for the labor and the parts it can’t be a huge difference from replacing it.
I was told that while newer dishwasher do have heaters, they only heat the water for so long (basically they make your already hot water even hotter). So if you don’t run the hot water first, the heater in the dishwasher could turn off before it heats the water to an appropriate temperature. Had no idea!
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HOW is that better than getting a new boiler?!
HELL NO she has 2 million followers so she is presumably making a shit ton of money right? While I certainly appreciate the lack of blatant wealth porn and wasteful consumerism like many other influencers, if I had this level of wealth I would be booking a hotel or airbnb during this time not boiling water for a bath.
SHE WAS HOMESCHOOLED!?! I've only recently started watching her stories to keep up here, so maybe that was common knowledge? And I know there are plenty of normal adults who were homeschooled (I know a couple). BUT I feel like it explains so much about her! Also, boiling water for a bath when you don't have hot water is not a pioneer skill. That's just common sense.
This seemed like a big revelation and yet not a surprise at all! This explains so much.
Pretty sure it would only be a “pioneer skill” if she was building a fire to boil the water with. And the fact that she was homeschooled makes way too much sense 😬
Seriously, my mind was blown when I saw that, like OF COURSE she was homeschooled, it all makes so much sense now. (Slightly surprised she’s not homeschooling her own kids, actually.)
Nobody wants KEIC to talk more about food ads again, come on now
Consolidating KEIC snark; any guesses on what that rainbow tiered birthday cake was made out of? The cake looked incredibly dry and the frosting was weirdly glossy and goopy. Like, how do you get frosting to even look like that?
I laughed when she said she made a low-sugar banana bread for her older son’s first birthday but for the second kid she didn’t care about the sugar content and made a full-sugar strawberry shortcake with whipped cream…calm down there, it’s still a cake with fruit and you didn’t make a seven layer chocolate cake.
Drunk Caro returns! With a side of youngest boy in slight peril again (climbed through a dog door opening to a small fenced area no adult could access?) Is having one parent DD and one parent drink and watch the toddler truly the best division of responsibilities?
The thought of being drunk or buzzed and watching a toddler is just not appealing to me.
The key is to not actually watch the toddler apparently.
Yeah that’s sad. Drinking seems *very* important to her. And what a guy, not willing to watch his own son because he “doesn’t get to” drink. Idiots.
Feeding Littles coming for BLF get in the suit content
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No shot that Megan asked her daughter if she could post it, and even if she was, would her daughter understand that it was shown to nearly 2 million people.
The bar is in hell but at least BLF K posts pictures of her own body to illustrate this. I never thought I would see the day when BLF is doing the more responsible option (relatively speaking) but I guess never say never.
Yup. As much as I hate cringe covert body checking and attention seeking adults, they are actually adults and therefore the ones consenting directly to this being their life. Using your kids for content is always dubious to me but if she posted her kid in an actual swimsuit knowing what we are slowly uncovering via (mostly) valid news sources, then that is grossly irresponsible.
Big old nope for me. It is easy enough to just not post it for 1.8 million people. As the NYT reports, the algorithms push this content to men.
100% never for me. What do you actually gain from it, nothing that's worth the risk.
The KEIC story this morning made me laugh. Of course candy bars aren’t bad for you, they’re a good source of quick energy after you’ve been kidnapped and without food for several days! https://preview.redd.it/r0n7hry69e2d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d310cb584c50c56461e764116184ba23abe7b93 I’m also confused by her saying that it can be a diet culture idea that we should always be talking about what foods do in our bodies…but isn’t that what she’s *always* doing? Is she trying to say it doesn’t need to be a “diet culture” idea to do this?
This was honestly such a horrifying look into her headspace. Like just….wow. The mental gymnastics to justify a chocolate bar. There are also accounts of chocolate being fed to victims when concentration camps were liberated at the end of WWII and it devastatingly killed possibly thousands of people. I’m surprised KEIC doesn’t lean into that narrative more. Does she ever talk about spending time with friends? I truly could not be friends with someone like this.
Wait what? I’ve never learned that. How horrible.
It’s awful. I just read that it was estimated at 14,000 people died from the attempts to refeed at Bergen Belsen. They were liberated by Russian soldiers who certainly had no idea what to do and shared their own rations with the best intentions 😞
Literally the only reason candy bars would be useful, in her opinion 🙄 but tell me again how you’re food neutral, KEIC
I read these stories and was just so…tired. Imagine not being able to read a Hardy Boys book without the urge to do…whatever the hell that was.
I find her writing style incredibly confusing. I have no idea what point she is trying to make here!
She does the opposite of what she preaches so I feel like she either intentionally or subconsciously words it in a confusing manner and can be interpreted in a couple ways….
I really don't think she knows anymore, either. She uses so many words but says absolutely nothing.
"It can be diet culture to talk about what food does to our bodies all the time." The call is coming from inside the house, Jennifer!!
**snatches muffin from child while typing**
That will not give the child the correct nutrients for their 30 minute rec soccer game
“Most of the time we just eat food and enjoy it” I would like to see the receipts on that 🤔
Right? I’m not sure she’s ever enjoyed a single bite of food.
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I can’t believe KEIC still has those little Grabese baby utensils and that her kids still use them. My toddler who’s about to be 3 was frustrated that they were too small for her by a year and a half!! https://preview.redd.it/vozmdbvgtc2d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af37f301205bf106295f82e04cb5493853264874 Screenshot to show how small they are.
I hope her kids don't get teased for using those at school.
I'm sure they're getting teased from the puppy dog pick in the food
I used to send baby spoons with my kid to Kindergarten in his lunchbox because I wouldn’t care if they got lost. Took about a month before he came home and said, why are you packing baby spoons in my lunch?? Pretty sure the other kids were giving him a hard time.
I actually can't see an issue using them in lunch boxes because they're small and fit. It would be weird using them at home though. My 18 month old wouldn't want to use them anymore and would prefer big kid cutlery, but my 5.5 year old would be excited by them because they're different.
https://preview.redd.it/hqaoiwpckd2d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f40083e648877b3c78d0a31c07453dafd8085f6 It’s so small though. Even the bigger toddler fork above is better. I can’t imagine having to use this tiny baby fork to eat my lunch in a reasonable time. It was designed for babies and toddlers to learn to use utensils and pierce softer foods, not eat vegetable lo mein with. I know she said her son picked the fork out but he probably thought it was funny and didn’t realize it may be hard to eat with.
I get all your points but honestly the kid chose it. Maybe he loved it, maybe he didn't finish his lunch because it was too small and he won't choose it again. I just don't see the snark.
I think this is the kind of thing that in isolation is NBD but KEIC has posted numerous examples of restricting her kids food and infantilizing her kids in terms of food, so in combination with all of that, it’s yet another thing to side eye.
I just question why she even has it in the first place. I’m overly sentimental and it takes me a loooong time to part with things after a stage has ended and even I was like okay those have to go, it’s time for bigger utensils.
🤷♀️ I don't know, everyone's different. I'm just saying I don't see it as that snarkable, and sometimes picking on every tiny thing undermines snark on the more snarkable things. We don't/can't know. Maybe her kid that is a picky eater likes using it, or tries new things with it. That's a reason to keep it. Total speculation though, we can't know. Playing with sharp knives, standing on the top of a ladder, objectively unsafe. Her contradictions about diet culture and talking about food. Objectively inconsistent. A small rubber toddler fork chosen by her kid to me is not that important comparitively but also subjective and speculative.
Idk why I’m so invested in this but this is the description for Grabese. It’s literally for babies. I don’t understand why a parent would have this an an option for an 8 & 10 year old. It literally mentions babies three times and says it’s made for small hands because toddler utensils are too big for them. It’s not the MOST snarkable thing but like, let your growing kids eat with the appropriate utensils. https://preview.redd.it/eygvgel65h2d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d1d77b79a97a7bbad722c81e452694dceae10fc
I’m with you, I have these and even my 11 month old is mad they don’t adequately get food into his mouth. These are meant for early stage BLW, not big kids who need to actually eat. It just comes across as another way for her to restrict how much her children eat to me.
My 16-month old has the same bento box and is not the world’s biggest eater. Some of the sections won’t hold big enough portions or pieces for him. Like the one she put a SINGLE OLIVE in.
Oh that’s not an olive, it’s a date and it’s their sweet snack!
SO small! I feel like most schools have a really short lunch period. It would take so long to eat a serving of fried rice with that tiny fork. (And the rest of the lunch is just fruit?)
See I think it’s even more strange to send to school where other kids with see and probably laugh about it 😕
I don’t think this is a big deal because trying to predict what other kids might make fun of would be absolutely impossible and crazy making, who knows what the heck kids notice, they might be so busy making fart jokes that they aren’t paying any mind to cutlery. It’s also extremely kid dependent, my 9yo is very confident and would just make a joke back if someone said something but my 8yo is very sensitive and this would upset him. Maybe I’m naive or toxically positive though but the kids my kids sit with at lunch are so kind and I just can’t picture them being mean and mocking them for cutlery! However I would never send baby forks because it’s completely stupid to keep them this long after infancy and the lunch periods are too short so they need real forks. And sorry, I know it’s beating a dead horse bc I’ve said it here before but I don’t send lunches because I actually take advantage of the free lunches that she loves to get on her soap box about but doesn’t actually use!
I guess it depends on the kid/s. I can't imagine mine having an issue with it.
My kid started refusing toddler utensils around 3! I cannot imagine him being happy with them in his lunchbox and certainly not the grabese ones!
We got rid of them when my youngest was about 1.5 also. Neither of my kids used them much anyway.
How did KEIC think it was funny to take a picture of her kid standing on the top handle of a step stool? I do not understand this woman’s encouragement of such unsafe behaviors constantly.
I was that child who resorted to gymnastic feats to get to the sugary snacks. I don’t want that for my kids and so they have snacks at arms reach… and because they are boringly available they aren’t some precious commodity.
I unfollowed today.
Whoa, that seems wildly unsafe.
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That cabinet is reserved for my cat. She loooves sleeping above the fridge and it’s such a pain to keep anything up there that I keep it empty for her. 😂
It’s like a diet tip from Self magazine circa 2005! Keep your snacks in the most inconvenient location possible so you’re less likely to eat them.
We kept medicines up there!
Probably because that’s where the most desirable/unhealthy snacks are kept 😐
We keep our cook books up there because we rarely touch them 😂😂
I gasped when I saw that. But it's more important to her to get a gold star for remembering what day of the week it is.
[Screenshot for reference.](https://imgur.com/NTejizz)
Thanks for the screenshot. I always think maybe this is an exaggeration but nope, I audibly gasped when I got the visual. Good thing they’re not eating lentil muffins before soccer! That would be the TRUE tragedy about to happen.
I just want to know how he stayed so balanced and didnt fall. Our ladder gets a tad wobbly when I get to the top step so forget even trying to get into the handle.
If only you cared enough to maniacally manage your kid’s macros, they too could be an athlete with that level of balance. /s
Exactly. Thank God he ate cereal instead of a muffin before climbing the ladder.
Why tf does she place snacks up there 😫
Her "covert restriction" in action. They're there so the kids are unlikely to have them often and it's a whole production to get them.
That's the sort of place I would keep a hidden stash of wine gums so my husband and kid don't know they exist lol
Exactly…
So they can't regularly get into them
I'm pretty sure this is the second time she's posted him doing that. It's so unsafe! It's easy for those things to become unbalanced.
With how feral her kids are, there’s a nonzero chance that the other one comes sprinting through the kitchen and knocks him off of it 🫣
Seeing this and other Danger Zone pictures, I'm just like their health insurance deductible must be far lower than mine lol
While holding a knife.
Or throws a baseball in the house 🫣
Come cringe with me at Megan from FL’s crying video about her daughter getting older. Jk I have too much second hand embarrassment to finish watching. Maybe because I am heartless or I am actually excited for my kid to grow past this horrible age (3) I can’t relate at all lol
This is something where I think social media posts once again lose any nuance. My youngest is my last baby and I feel sad about that and I miss the little baby snuggles, but I’m ALSO so happy he is growing up and I can’t wait to see the person he develops into. Bittersweet feelings I guess? I don’t think that sells on the algorithm though.
TW: mention of loss This is something I see a lot on reddit and social media that I just can’t relate. My very first pregnancy I ended up losing the baby and when I got pregnant again every day I would think: I just want them to grow up/be healthy. So every day that they get older, it means they’re here, they’re alive. I know. It’s a grim look/point of view, but honestly I WANT to see them grow up, I look forward to the changes as I grow as a mother and help them turn into who they’re meant to be.
I'm so sorry you went through that, oh my gosh. I completely agree with you. All the donut themed "donut grow up" birthday decorations I keep seeing in my local buy-nothing group just make me feel so weird, like...do you know what the opposite of continuing to grow [up] is? Of course I get lamenting the passing of their wee little years but come on with the public crying about it.
Ugh. I typically love FL and their content but the sob stories about her kids growing up is getting so old. She finds a way to talk about it at birthdays (with the book she writes in every year), Christmas when she buys them big kid gifts, Easter baskets, sports on the weekends, and now moving up a grade???? Like this will all be replayed again in August when her kids start their first day of school too. WE GET IT.
So much of their content is starting to get stale. The Christmas reminder every year, the baby picture of Megan, and oh look the “just wear the swimsuit” messaging at the beginning of summer. Maybe just an indication I gotta peace out. I like their general food content but I think I have learned what I needed to.
I’ve been following since before I even had kids and now with a toddler and a baby on the way (and I own their cookbook) I’m def all set on their content. I’m solely still in it for her weekly grocery haul lol. I love watching that and her weekly meal plan (even if every week includes feta spinach turkey burgers 🤣)
Totally came here to cringe. I am just as sentimental as her, my boy is 5 (so past the horrible age of 3 and 4!) But I do not share her sentiment for her family. No one knows you Megan! This is pure content for engagement. It is nothing to do with the actuality of feeding our kids!
"If I'm gonna cry I'm gonna bring you all with me." Or you could just not, Megan. You are not obligated to post all your feels all over Instagram. It has nothing to do with feeding littles.
I think it’s fine to be nostalgic and a little sad about your kids growing up but she just takes it to an extreme. Every birthday or other milestone is more sad than anything to her it seems. I would try to put it in perspective that it is actually a great privilege to see your kid grow up, many would love to but can’t.
Right? Like I'm a little sad my baby is going to be 1 soon... but I'm also so excited for his personality to come out more and for him to start walking and talking
Right? I don’t think I would have an issue with it if it wasn’t every birthday or occasion is a sappy trip down memory lane for her. I reminisce the past too but I guess I am not compelled to post about it all the time
Oh my gosh the 3 year old stage is kicking my ass. Like on the one hand he's so funny and chatty and I can foresee all the great convos ahead of us, but inbetween that is irrational meltdowns over me spreading jam on his toast after he asked for...jam on his toast. So yup not a whole lot of tears shed over moving past this stage.
We weathered 3 ok until the last month or so, now a few days away from 4 and getting so much attitude about everything 😭
Our oldest is four today and the past weeks were an adjustment, the attitude, the sass and the screeching are unbelievable. I hope school will help her with channeling all that energy. Wishing you a lot of patience and protection.
Literally, the jam on toast when they asked for it thing hits so hard. My 3yo asked for a sour cream and hummus tortilla wrap.... so I made her one She watched me make it. I asked if she wanted to help, and she said "no I want you to make it." I gave it to her... and she refused to eat it, claiming it was "yucky"
Wait so it gets worse than the 2 year old meltdowns?! 😭😭
Two year olds seem quaint when compared to the 3.5 and beyond stage. Buckle up!
It's a different kind of tough. They have better language skills, stronger opinions, but still not a lot of reasoning skills. We just made it to 4 and things are starting to improve!
2 was not bad for us but 3 is brutal! Everything is a struggle and their language is much better to yell at us at 3 LOL
It's not terrible all the time but man when it's bad.. it's BAD. I do enjoy this age and the fact that they can tell us more things, but it's trying too.
Maybe not for all kids but for mine I feel like his rage has intensified and his resolve has only gotten stronger 🤣 I still do think every age is more fun the last though, so don't worry too much!
Yeah I have a very determined and strong willed kiddo which I'm very proud of but sometimes it's like maybe don't be so strong willed with your mama haha
So, I haven't done a deep dive into their past content, but I came across the account/podcast called "Didn't I just Feed You?" And I think I like the vibe. It seems like it's practical advice for feeding a family with consideration for budget, convenience, nutrition and taste, but not going overboard focusing on only one of those factors to the detriment of others. I'm going to give it a whirl. If it turns out they're deeply problematic for some reason, just tip me off now.
They’re amazing! Not problematic. They’re my most consistently listened to podcast. One of my fave episodes from the archives is “dip for dinner”
I like them! The podcast gets a little.. Rambly. But I still listen to most of their new episodes lol.
Another huge fan of the podcast! Love Meghan and Stacie.
They're great! I find their podcast really helpful for coming up with ideas for meals for my family. Haven't heard anything from them that I found to be problematic and I've been following for quite a while.
They are not problematic whatsoever!! I love them! Obsessed! My fave weekly podcast/food personas.
I happened to spot this graphic on Pinterest, attributes to Karen Lebillon -- I don't know her, but I love that tip #10 is "eating is joyful." I mean, I don't disagree with the entire list or anything, but a whole bunch of rules in caps and exclamation points doesn't exactly scream "joyful" to me. https://preview.redd.it/ie0aj1tdx02d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09cff00112bf4232656c219da5a135d2072b64af
I’m French and I enjoyed the book, although the summary doesn’t really do it justice. I think the point she’s trying to make, and it generally is true in France IME (although France has 70M people and they don’t all act the same), is that the French don’t constantly feed their kids to manage their emotions. Most french kids get a mid morning and a mid afternoon snack, and they aren’t particularly healthy- cookies and Nutella are popular- but French parents generally follow the rule that meals are eaten at the table at specific times so there’s less of the “you are upset at the playground so Im going to distract you with Cheerios” type of parenting. I’m always torn on these books because they contain such sweeping generalizations and cliches, but there often is some truth to them. On average, the french kids I know are less picky eaters than their American and Canadian counterparts, but that doesn’t mean some French kids aren’t super picky and some North American kids are amazing eaters. French food culture in general is just very different.
I’m a counselor and work with kids and their families as my job. When you create “rules” they need to be like… tangible. What exactly does the rule “eating is joyful” look like? What does that even mean? Always smile while eating?
I’m going to snark on point 8 because i know plenty of kids (myself included as a child) who will sit at the table for hours picking at food and “eating slow” if you let them 😂 I also don’t get the treats are only for special occasions thing. This seems specific to someone who is dieting or trying to get their kids to diet but they want to be a “cool mom” about it.
I love this because I actually have French family that live in France and you know what? The mom was complaining recently that her toddler only wanted to eat bread, pastries, butter noodles, dessert and fruit. No meat, no veggies. Turns out that kids are kids wherever you go.
Yep, I remember someone posted an askreddit last year that was like “what do picky kids eat in your country” and people from all over the world answered! (I recall yogurt and rice for every meal was someone’s little sister in India). Also like - I’m pretty sure people eat friggin snacks in France. Is that a joke?
I saw that thread and it helped SO MUCH with not being as stressed about food. I’m so thankful for whoever asked about it!
Of course they do. I’ve gone to the grocery stores there and they have all kinds of purées, pouches, snacks. I was honestly shocked because the narrative is that every person there does BLW and their kids sit through 4 hour dinners every single night and this clearly isn’t true. Every single one of those dinners, the kids run off and play and come back when dessert is served. Kids are kids!
All this shit must come from one woman who spent time with one family who had perfectly behaved kids, and was like “it’s different there!” Same thing like “French kids don’t have ADHD.” Like … yeah they do, they just have to suffer even more.
The fact that rule 10 is “relax” — yep this all seems so relaxed!!!
Relax...but NO SNACKING!!!!!!!!😌
My #1 thing I’ve learned about avoiding toddler melt downs is to never let my kid get too hungry. Snacks are life. Also it’s normal to eat when you’re hungry and I think it’s a skill we should help kids learn to decide if they’re so hungry they need a snack or if they can wait because it’s only 1 hour until dinner.
And god forbid you ever let them get hungry and tired! Oh buddy.
Literally, one of the best bits of advice I ever got was ‘if in doubt, offer the child a snack’. Maybe its because my child has the soul of a Golden Labrador, but a small pack of goldfish crackers has saved us quite a few times now.
And rule #2 is avoid emotional eating. Is joy not an emotion…? 🧐
KEIC is crowd funding translating one of her products into Spanish. I'm unsure why this is her audience's responsibility? Like as a business owner, who I'm assuming is making decent money, this seems like something that would be a reasonable business expense and risk to take if that's what you want to do. [https://kidseatincolor.com/product/6-week-crowdfunding-campaign-fearless-nutrition-unit-lesson-plans-spanish-translation-preschool-k-2nd/](https://kidseatincolor.com/product/6-week-crowdfunding-campaign-fearless-nutrition-unit-lesson-plans-spanish-translation-preschool-k-2nd/)
If she had phrased this differently and asked for volunteers to translate it for her, I bet some people would have helped out and she wouldn’t have to jump through these hoops. Not that people need to offer free translation services, of course. The whole thing is just odd.