At this time of year my Facebook feed is filled with lunch porn. Is yours?
No, don’t get the wrong idea, t’s the G rated type. Though in my view, that’s G for “get a life” rather than G for general viewing because there is nothing “general” about these posts.
The ones I am referring to are about food.
About lunch-boxes and recess ideas, like brilliant bento boxes and organic after school snacks. They are paleo friendly wholefoods, they are unrefined and vegan, they are home-baked-sugar-free-preservative-free carbohydrate-free and as elaborate as a gingerbread house.
(That would be a sugar-free, whole grain, gluten free gingerbread house of course).
And they make me hang my head in shame at the Vegemite sandwiches, box of sultanas, half bruised apple and bag of crackers I cram into my kids’ Tupperwear each morning while inhaling a coffee.
As much as I want to try and be that mother – and kudos to you if you are – I just can’t keep up.
So it is refreshing to read that other mums can’t do it all too.
A Facebook post by young mother from the Central Coast of NSW has gone viral. Paige-Alexis Cunningham has decreed the “what not to feed your kids” type shaming that has risen alongside the culture of sugar shaming.
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Afternoon snack of watermelon and a bit of a rant. Lately my feed has been flooded with people sharing 'what not to...
Posted by Paige-Alexis Cunningham on Thursday, January 28, 2016
Her post, liked by more than 17,000 people, shamelessly and proudly shared what her kids ate that day.
Oh there was watermelon, lunch was a "Happy Meal" she says and at breakfast one kid at Rice Bubbles and the other “refused to eat.”