Name brands for everything apparently, not buying in bulk when it made sense to, and the lady didn’t even use coupons from weekly ads that were available. Every poor family probably already does already probably buys generic and utilizes sales and coupons whenever they can. So I imagine this entire article is aimed at families that have never had to worry about their food budget until recently and are now discovering the things everyone else has been doing for a long ass time.

But to give a tiny bit of credit towards the author kids are notoriously wasteful of food. They’ll take one bite of something decide they are full or previously favorite foods are now yucky, or just straight up drop it on the ground. Parents often become human garbage disposals to avoid food waste.

There’s ways to minimize this such as exposing your kid to “ugly” fruits and vegetables, thoughtful eating habits, educating your kids on food waste of course, etc. Sometimes kids are gonna kid though, so you’re always going to have moments where they waste food.

i’m getting married to deepseek tomorrow, y’all should come