Hopefully this is the right sub! I’m late 20’s F and he’s early 30’s, for context. We have two kids, a toddler and a baby, and this is something that has bothered me for a while. I’m no health nut by any stretch, but I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated by what goes into the shopping cart and into our mouths each week.
I do the shopping. I do the cooking. But the stuff he asks me to get for his work snacks and home snacks makes the cart look like a toddlers dream… cookies, crackers, chocolate dipped granola bars, etc. The weeks that I refuse, he spends $100 at the dollar store on junk food during the week.
His eating habits are rubbing off on our toddler, because of COURSE she doesn’t want the apple and yogurt I got for her when Dad is sucking back cookie after cookie. She’d rather share his cereal made of pure sugar for brekky instead of the cheese and eggs I made for everyone. He drinks pop after pop, and eats so much sugar. His entire family has type 2 diabetes but since he’s somehow dodged being overweight he thinks he doesn’t need to watch himself.
How do we find a happy medium? I have started being really intentional about what I’m putting in my body now that my parents both have issues because of their own bad food habits. I don’t want to take sugar out altogether, but he eats SO much junk that it’s impossible to teach our kids balance without being the biggest hypocrite. I also want him to live a long life, y’know? Has anyone dealt with similar and figured out a way to find balance?