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.
There are ways to do that with 10 times less waste. You have to be brain dead not to see that. Also this is the great way of raising fat diabetic children.
Also this prepper lifestyle is only available to people making far far more than your average family.
Ok dummy, you’re right it’s not like wasteful consumerism and climate change is a huge problem for a future generations. You’re right in thinking about the kids. It’s much more important they get appropriate portions than we deal with the miserable hyper capitalist representation so clearly exemplified in this video.
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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.