Some days, your values just collide, and you have to choose between self-care and a competing value. Oftentimes, it is self-care vs. kid-care. Today, it was self-care vs. frugality. Frugality won.
This was my afternoon snack. Two half-eaten apples. Because I wanted an apple, but couldn't stand to throw away randomly-bitten-but-mostly-intact apples I served my kids for lunch. They were 69 cents each, after all.
In retrospect, perhaps self-care would have been a better choice.
KUDOS! it's not easy to admit that you eat your kids garbage! but i must admit, so often times i'm stuck eating half a bowl of soggy cereal to keeps it from getting poured in the trash!
ReplyDeleteOh how many chomped on apples I have eaten. mmmmm...
ReplyDeleteI too have found myself eating my daughter's "leftovers" a lot, A LOT, this past week. And then I think of my friend who lost 10 pounds in a month because she *stopped* eating her kids lunches and snacks when they were done so it wouldn't go to waste. Waist or waste? That is the question for me!
ReplyDeleteHeee..pretty funny!
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Thanks for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteFor one: it is nice to see that other people's kids eat the same way and amount that mine do (I'm always worried they're not getting enough)
For two: I have finished off their scraps a number of times! Sometimes I have gathered them from the 4 corners of the house, and I'm on the way to the garbage can, but just can't allow myself to throw away "perfectly good food" ha!