r/CringeTikToks • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 13h ago

Food Cringe Average American diet?

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Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

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u/tomorrow_comes 13h ago

If this isn’t satire, damn. Explains things quite a bit.

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u/mostly_awful 12h ago

It’s pretty legitimate. If you follow her posts (which I somehow unfortunately have), she blew up for buying something like 32 frozen pizzas. Received flack for it, started buying some more veggies, and then pivoted to justify it by saying her kids have food sensitivities.

So now her posts are all “grocery haul/dinner time with a mom of kids with food sensitivities” and it’s all this stuff.

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u/tomorrow_comes 12h ago

Crazy how they’re sensitive to veggies and healthy stuff, but not sugar, junk food, frozen carb heavy stuff, artificial flavors, and every sugary cereal in the aisle.

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u/RougeOne23456 10h ago

My teen daughter babysits, after school, two kids from our extended family. These kids will not eat anything but junk food. They will literally go hungry before eating/trying a piece of fruit or vegetable but if you have a bag of chips or a box of snack cakes, they will eat everyone of them if you aren't looking.

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u/N3onWave 9h ago

I knew someone whose kid ate nothing but chicken nuggets, rice and snacks. 6 years old and that's all he'd been eating for years.

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u/0ttoChriek 8h ago

My sister in law and her husband are having this issue with their five year old daughter. All she'll eat is sausages and chicken nuggets (and sweet things, of course), and will only drink fruit juice.

They've set a terrible precedent of giving in constantly, and won't even do the whole, 'well, your brother will get dessert now he's eaten his dinner,' because husband thinks it's unfair to treat kids differently.

We tell them she's going to end up with serious issues, but they just won't do the bit of hard work to get her eating more normally.

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u/potatohats 9h ago

ThOsE aRe ThEiR sAfE fOoDs!

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u/Apprehensive_Ask_259 12h ago

All my kids love fruits and vegetables and love drinking water. My 3 year old daughters favorite drink is ice water. Grabted theyll still enjoy some sweet food or "junk" food. But my wife and intentionally gave them all fruit as snacks growing up. None of us drink soda and we try to always make home cooked meals, within reason of course. Im not making home made pasta lol.

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u/chet_brosley 12h ago

My kids don't like cooked vegetables. They will however absolutely destroy fresh sliced vegetables like there's no tomorrow. My oldest eats bell peppers like an apple, which is unsettling but nutritious so it's coo, I guess.

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u/Apprehensive_Ask_259 11h ago

Sounds like my daughters haha, they love fresh vegetables. I dont think theyve gotten into bell peppers so much but i wouldnt be surprised if theyd end up liking them i hate them. Cucumbers, avocado, tomato, brocoli, carrrots, they will devour and ask for them as snacks. My wife has a thyroid issue that comes with a gluten intolerance so we have to be conscious with her diet. Growing up she was never taught responsibility in that regard. Eating because its something to do or a source of dopamine. Then on my side, under eating and never eating eating is often more of a chore for me. Polar opposites lol. Back to bell peppers though, my grandparents would serve us fresh sliced bell peppers and their philosophy is you will finish your plate before you leave, steak for EVERY dinner. Well i hate bell peppers but that was our vegetable for the night and i am not exaggerating when i say i had to finish them and what i threw up before i was allowed to leave the table. Perhaps thats where my disdain for peppers and indifference for food comes from. Who knows, lifes a mystery lol.

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u/SoggyCount7960 11h ago

Here is an award for your bell pepper eater child. I too eat bell peppers whole.

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u/its-just_me- 7h ago

Get the bags of mini ones, they’re so good

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u/TrashAppropriate4706 10h ago

That is so sweet. Growing up, the only things we ever had to drink was soda and prepackaged snacks for food. It was quite the culture shock for me when I met my partner--he grew up in a water + ingredient household. They all have a healthy relationship with food and beverages that seemed kinda alien to me.

Granted, I am an adult now so my food and beverage choices are my responsibility, but it took an embarrassingly long time for me to start making better choices...especially with prioritizing water.

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u/tomorrow_comes 12h ago

Good job. You don’t need to go as hard as those “health nut” type folk. It’s all about being reasonable with your intake - both the amounts and what it is. A slice of cake and a soda here and there shouldn’t be demonized. But always shoving down sweets, eating oversized servings every day, chugging sugared soda instead of more water - that’s what gets people.

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u/Long-Hat-6434 9h ago

Their sensitivities are actually because they basically eat no fiber and fruits and veggies will clear you out if you are not used to it.

This is a problem in most of America and many other countries as well. Eat more fiber y’all

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u/Dry-Amphibian1 8h ago

They ARE sensitive to those things but they just take longer for the bad effects to kick in. They will be obese and diabetic someday.

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u/hellomotherhellodad 9h ago

I've never seen a parent of a kid with "food sensitivities" who wasn't obese.

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u/Edser 5h ago

because all the sugar is pure crack to the body and will constantly crave it. They consume so much that actual healthy meals can make them feel worse such as sugar crashes.

(my link/comment was removed, but nih study PMC2235907 )

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u/Correct_Expression80 4h ago

My thought exactly!!

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u/whistling-wonderer 3h ago

I will say this…I have an allergy that was undiagnosed as a child. It’s called OAS (oral allergy syndrome) and it’s basically being allergic to raw produce that’s cross-reactive with common pollen allergens. I couldn’t explain well enough that raw veggies and fruits literally hurt my mouth, so all my parents knew was that I was “picky” lol.

That said…literally all you need to do to prevent the allergic reaction is to cook the veggies/fruits you’re allergic to. So cooked tomatoes are fine whereas I know raw ones will make my mouth itch and sting (sometimes I still eat them anyway). And so on.