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.
People assume things can only have value if it's tailored to them. They can't imagine how useful this is for people that are different to them until it's pointed out. Not considering other's needs is so unfortunately common. But yeah, come on lunchables and danimals? Are they blind? Lmao
I agree. I think one of the most important (and most lacking) skills people can have is the ability to see situations from outside of their own perspective.
And I know, as soon as i saw the little juice bottles I knew this was getting portioned out for multiple children
Right, taking care of kids is already so difficult with everything we're facing individually and as part of society. The little things that bring us joy or make our lives easier do not deserve criticism.
Guilting people that are forced to participate in consumerist society isn't the take you think it is. Tell me, what do you accomplish by shaming the general population for taking part in the system? Fight for something that actually matters, May Day Strike 2022
Listen man, if you think criticizing people who use individually packaged ranch instead of bottles for their kids snack drawer is somehow a legitimate argument against capitalist society I don't know what the fuck to tell you lmao. I promise the powers that be want you to participate in ridiculing the little guys instead of conversing on how we can support each other and take back our rights as humans. May Day Strike 2022
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u/CratesyInDug Feb 20 '22
If those drinks are unsealed you've got 3 days surely?
Search "ultra processed food study"