In response to your “soapbox” post – I think it’s wonderful that you care so much about what your kids eat – I definitely do think it’s important, and I think it’s about changing the way people think about practicality and convenience. After all, I bet a lot of the parents who have young kids now grew up eating a lot of artificial junk food, without having a lot of the research we have now about it – so a lot of them probably think, “I ate this stuff as a kid and it didn’t kill me.” I’m not a parent, but I work as a nanny in a very yuppie town where I hear these debates going on all the time, and I admit that sometimes people can get a little preachy about organic this and all-natural that, and I totally get how busy parents can get offended at the insinuation that they’re not being careful enough. The family I work for has two working parents and no housekeeper, but they make healthy eating a priority and they make it work – so I know it’s possible! I think things are changing, and with time, more people and institutions will come around and find ways to feed their kids more healthily – hopefully by the time I have kids in school, it won’t be nachos and french fries for lunch every day, like it was when I was 10 :)