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Right On, Danya! Years ago, I worked for Head-Start as a cook and my part of the mission was to cook nutritional meals that introduced children to a variety of foods and cuisines; at first all we asked was, at a minimum, that they touch the "strange" food to their tongues. By the end of the year, the children were eating REAL food. Sadly, they graduated from the program and went on to kindergarten and later grade school where bringing crap like lunchables is status. And even more sadly, Head-Start gets thrown up as not able to prove it is successful because it can't prove that it did any good at all since it can't show long-lasting effects. Since our school lunch programs are barely better than brining lunchables to school, we are dooming kids to fate you point out so well in your article.

I don't even need to read the article. I agree.

Awesome... just awesome... one simple rule: "Don't eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."

I fully agree with you as well. I used to like these meals as a child but now I see how terrible they are in so many ways. I'm happy to say I haven't touched one of those Lunchables boxes since around 4th grade.

get a life

Hopefully you noticed as well that the crap isn't limited to "lunchables". The same information applies to any food that contains preservatives!!! We are poisoning ourselves and our children everyday by putting these synthetic hormones into our bodies...hmmmmm, i wonder why our whole country is fat and has ADHD?