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Daddy Clay: Sorry, but men have no clue about how to eat till they're about 30. Then kids
come along and nutrition goes right to hell. Today's episode is brought to you by BabyBjorn
and their really cool feeding products like this great soft bib and their new cup. I sometimes
think about the guy nutrition timeline. As kids, we ate reasonably well. Mom's food,
cafeteria gunk, and of course the occasional junk food. But then we hit college and it
really craters. We go completely Belushi. Pizza three meals a day. Stromboli at 4. In
the early 20's, it dawns on men that food can be bought in components and combined together
into a meal. You put chicken breast on the grill, about a half a can of lemon pepper
and kapow, magic happens. Dude, that's awesome. Mid 20's, men start to domesticate. We realize
that bad food makes us feel bad. It could also grow experimental and international trying
different cuisines. Long term relationships have a huge impact. You co-habitate or marry,
suddenly, it's a lifestyle. It's a health and nutrition program. All of which gets tossed
out with the afterbirth, kids. Before you know it, your house is awash in snacks. Goldfish
come swimming into your life like salmon swimming upstream to spawn. On a hot summer day, I'm
like a junkie, freebasing juice boxes in the corner of the house in a single slurp. I went
10 years without a Nilla wafer, now I can't go ten minutes. Sandwich snack crackers, granola
bars, Cheez Its, popsicles, dreamsicles, cinnamon graham crackers. I get it. Kids have small
stomachs. They require frequent small meals. Schools even require backpack snacks. There
are whole aisles in the grocery store dedicated to them. Do dads need snacks? No. And don't
give me the whole I'm eating five small meals a day on my new diet plan because I know you
wiped out the whole meal at your plate at dinner time and then polished off what was
left on your kid's plate too. Do dads need snacks? Absolutely not. They're processed
food full of sugar and fat and salt. Absolutely not. So why are we feeding this stuff to our
kids?