we still gotta eat!

Yes, you’ve all heard me talk about trying to cut back on eating out. Trouble is shopping isn’t just shopping. A lot of times, it’s eating out and it’s starting to get expensive with the ravenous appetites of my teens and fuel prices the way they are!

Even a simple meal at McD’s can cost over 10 bucks a head. Yes, in case you haven’t noticed, McD’s has raised their prices, TGIF now charges for extra sauce, and the service charges and tax all add up quite nicely, thank you.

I hope it doesn’t come down to having to start ourselves on appetite suppressants to cut down on the cost of eating out . Nah, I’m just kidding. We still got to eat and definitely growing kids have to eat. The thing is finding ways to eat more nutritiously for the same amount of money.

kids and supermarket carts

On another occasion, I saw a kid trying to climb out of a supermarket cart. His mother has placed him there probably to prevent him from running all over the place.

Fine but kids are highly mobile and should never be left unattended in a supermarket cart. First off, the cart is on wheels which doesn’t make it the most stable thing in the world.

Secondly, a child leaning out of a cart with wheels is very dangerous. He might fall out of it head-first or he could tip the cart over. Both are potentially hazardous to the child and he could be badly hurt.

I don’t understand why mothers allow their kids to stand in carts in the first place!

kids and plastic bags

I saw this kid with a plastic bag in his hand that he’d probably torn off the big rolls in the fresh produce section at the supermarket. His mom was nearby when he started putting the plastic bag on his head and pulling it over his face.

I saw them from afar and thought surely his mother would tell him to remove it. She looked at what he was doing and then moved on to the next aisle without saying a word! Um, hello? Plastic bags are fun but they’re a suffocation hazard.

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