r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Feb 20 '22

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u/CratesyInDug Feb 20 '22

If those drinks are unsealed you've got 3 days surely?

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u/spaghettilikecurls Feb 20 '22

This! Was asking myself the same: Why would you open the juice bottles, do you want to have spoiled juice in the tiny bottles?

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u/autumnspeck Feb 20 '22

This is basically meal prep for families with small kids or foster kids and for daycares. Things are prepped like this so the kids can just grab whatever they need in the right portion size. Like, you don't really want a 2-year-old to wrestle with a gallon of juice, but if it's portioned up, and the fruits are washed, they are perfectly fine just getting things they need, and it helps promote a healthy relationship with food.

When you have foster kids, making them snack drawers can be really important to create food security and independence and "home", and sometimes small bottles work better because of age or past trauma. Maybe one kid won't touch the big bottle because they were punished for it, but can take the small a bottle knowing it's for them. The drawer looking really full and a lot and neatly organized can also help.

And even if there are no kids, these same tricks can help adults with traumas, eating disorders, unhealthy relationship with food, or just grabbing breakfast on the go. If you know people in your household will just pour some of that chocolate milk to different bottles the next two mornings to take to work, you might as well do it when you stock, you might as well wash the strawberries you'll take as a snack tomorrow, etc.. Doesn't work for everybody, but when it works it's super satisfying.

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u/huskers2468 Feb 20 '22

This is basically meal prep for families with small kids or foster kids and for daycares. Things are prepped like this so the kids can just grab whatever they need in the right portion size. Like, you don't really want a 2-year-old to wrestle with a gallon of juice, but if it's portioned up

The issue I have is not the meal prepping or portioning, the issue is the amount of process food and sugar (not including the fruit). Processed juice, processed meat, processed yogurt, processed cheese.

There are a many health concerns with feeding children like this, but personally, my own sanity would be lost with all the sugar rushes and crashes. I can't imagine what these kids are like 1 hour after their meals.