I’m usually too busy being alpha to bother with beta things like cooking for my family.
Fat kids? Mums - it's all your fault!
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Not really. I live up in the desolate north. Now that the mines have closed down we all have to lick the slime off rocks and scratch for potatoes to appease our southern overlords. I'd say my closest friends are high 20s to low 30s and they manage on a single income.
Its true though. I wouldn't say its particularly their fault, historically gender specific roles have been far more rigid.
Of course that's no excuse for current generations to maintain those viewpoints ... but then saying that, there are plenty of "men" and "women" these days who are equally useless at both traditional male and female activities, and you have to wonder what skills they actually possess other than duck face posing and twitter feeds
Edit: I guess that's not a particularly new thing, my MIL in her late 60s can't wire a plug, would probably have a mental breakdown if asked to do an oil change, nor can she cook or do the washing up without me needing to redo half of it
I agree it's true just a dumb post that I quoted to make the point.
It's just the same with young ones now though who can't do loads, not just an elder generation. People are people and have different skills, generalisations don't help anywhere.
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Uh huh. Sure. Yeah. You need 60k to survive. Any more corkers?
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I think the headline is purposefully provocative to get feed back.
But I agree with the general basic point that if there are 2 parents both working and the kids have to find food for themselves when they are home then its not going to be healthy food.
But I agree with the general basic point that if there are 2 parents both working and the kids have to find food for themselves when they are home then its not going to be healthy food.
Seeing as the average salary down there is 32k there must be a lot of people suffering malnutrition and living in sheds.
This is GD where statistics go out of the window and everyone is an MD or small business owner.
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In Morrisons this morning at check out a woman came up behind us - I think it was a woman or it could have been a corner sofa - she plonked two bags of crisps on rubber belt - These wasn't single bags but bags with at least 24 bags of crisps in them. - other times I have seen the trolley full of bottles of Coke. ??
We buy two single bags for the week just in case we fancy one.
We buy two single bags for the week just in case we fancy one.
I'm not saying eat 24 bags of crisps, but to be fair there aren't even many calories in a packet of crisps. And "sweets" while we're at it aren't very calorie dense as they're basically just sugar which is only 4 calories per gram. People tend to be overweight from having large portions of their regular meals, just eating big platefuls of regular food. Having Pizza isn't bad in itself, having a full Pizza to yourself as well as a big breakfast and a big lunch and the snacks between is.
Essentially what I'm saying is your diet needs to be looked at as a whole, and there's no such thing as bad food, portion sizes and number of portions are more important than what those portions are actually comprised of. Calories in must be less than Calories out, however you achieve that balance.
Maybe it's different there, here there's a lot of fat people waddling about, ordering Grand Big Macs with large fries and a diet coke...
Exactly, that's both time and cost inefficient. Even if you only want 2 bags a week, it still makes more sense to buy a 24 pack to last you 3 months
Isn’t there a link between zero sugar soft drinks and obesity — something to do with the brain tasting ‘sweet’ but not getting the expected sugar, so you then overcompensate with additional calories.
Anecdotal I know, although that seems to be the theme in GD threads lately but every person I know who drinks zero sugar stuff is massively overweight.
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Correlation != causation.
Hint - it's not the mothers working that's causing an increase in obesity in their children.
Have you had some part in the research? I'm just going off what the sources have said and they're all directly attributing mothers working as the cause. I can't get hold of the paper itself as I'm not sure its in the public domain yet.