Originally Posted by Lissa Kristine:
Right now there's nothing I can do to change any of this. Of course, my coworkers think Veggie Straws are a great way to get veggies into the kids. Are they terrible foods? No, but it's still junk food- NOT an alternative to carrot sticks.
I don't do veggie straws unless I was already going to buy potato chips.
It's the same stuff.
But I do sometimes offer those green pea crisps from Aldi and Whole Foods; they're 70 percent green peas and the rest is rice flour, so it's more like a real food than, say, a graham cracker.