On the healthiness of pre-packaged foods

I thought the South Beach Diet meals were garbage. The breakfast burritos taste like dirt (may just be because I don't eat wheat tortillas), and the dinners are pretty blah. The snack bars are good though, if a bit expensive.

I blame a lot of my family's weight problems on packaged foods that are easy to cook. Both parents worked long hours and stuff like canned chicken and dumplings or TV dinners usually were what we had for dinner. Laziness wasn't really an issue--I played basketball and softball until I was 14 and I still had problems, so it's the diet/genetics for sure.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You're right about time not being an excuse, but kids can't do much about choosing healthy food when their diet is provided by parents that don't make good choices. I remember for a while only having snack foods in the pantry that were either Spigettio-ish or Little Debbies. Even if stuff like fruits and yogurt were available, I probably would have gone with the former just because that's what we were always given.

There's nowhere I can't reach.