Totino's "Mom Up"

http://www.totinos.com/Mom%20Up

I want to smack the smug right off of moo's face! Also, Totino's is the last thing a little kid should be eating. I don't care how cheap it is. I HATE these junk food ads directed at breeders to make them feel good about buying shit food for their spawn!

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http://www.totinos.com/Mom%20Up

I want to smack the smug right off of moo's face! Also, Totino's is the last thing a little kid should be eating. I don't care how cheap it is. I HATE these junk food ads directed at breeders to make them feel good about buying shit food for their spawn!

DH and I love Totino's! But, MAYBE once every 2-3 weeks! We prefer to make our own pizza because it's much healthier!

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Anyone who goes to their website has the option of taking a 1 min survey.

I let them know how off-putting their "mom"- centric advertising is to this potential customer.

My mom used to buy my brother and I Totino's as an occasional treat in the summer. Thesedays, it seems like payrunts buy their kids junk food constantly to make up for the fact they don't do their "jobs" particularly well....it's something to appease the brats. I guarantee Totino's, Ore-Ida crinkle cuts, Lunchables, Pop Tarts and Coca Cola products compromise the majority of the diet of too many modern kydz.

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DH and I love Totino's! But, MAYBE once every 2-3 weeks! We prefer to make our own pizza because it's much healthier!

Okay, I'll admit to being sort of a pizza snob The grocery store I shop at even sells knock off Tostino's type pizzas for less than a buck. I'm pretty sure I got sick from eating one of those back in college.

As an Italian, I negate to that... thing the right to be called Pizza.

Also, that is not a thing for children to eat *eyerolls*

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I guarantee Totino's, Ore-Ida crinkle cuts, Lunchables, Pop Tarts and Coca Cola products compromise the majority of the diet of too many modern kydz.

And then their handlers want to play stupid when their kids are Type 2 diabetics at 13 or taking hypertension medication at 9 years old. If these bitches really wanted to "mom up"they wouldn't feed this shit to their kids as often (or not at all).

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I guarantee Totino's, Ore-Ida crinkle cuts, Lunchables, Pop Tarts and Coca Cola products compromise the majority of the diet of too many modern kydz.

And then their handlers want to play stupid when their kids are Type 2 diabetics at 13 or taking hypertension medication at 9 years old. If these bitches really wanted to "mom up"they wouldn't feed this shit to their kids as often (or not at all).

no they don't play stupid.

1. kids get various cardiovascular diseases
2. sue the company for manufacturing such unhealthy product
3. ???
4. PROFIT!

Ok as far as junk food goes, I love Totinos. I rarely buy them but partake on occasion. If I had kids they can snack on apples and veggies, just like I had to. Totinos are a freakin' meal.

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Okay, I gotta admit that I eat Totino's on occasion...it's a guilty pleasure of mine. Frozen pizza was an occasional treat when I was a kid, and I guess that's something I've carried over into adulthood. But good grief...that site actually suggests that moms have their frozen product on hand to "prevent mealtime meltdowns". Seriously? I'm sure "mealtime meltdowns" (kid-gloves term for "bratty tantrums") got me nowhere fast as a kid.

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"Be prepared for anything motherhood throws at you.

Translation: Buy our shitty frozen dinners so you can throw them at your kids because you're so fucking lazy!

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"Be ready before a mealtime melt down occurs."

Translation: Give into your whining brat's demands, fuck proper nutrition!

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"Load the freezer with Totino's party pizza without breaking the bank."

Translation: Have lots of money left on your Access card for the nail salon and liquor store!

I also admit to eating this crap on occasion. I mean, sometimes you just crave crap like this, or Chef Boyardee spaghetti from a can. But to raise someone on it is begging for early diabetes and a truckload of other heath problems.

Most grocery store delis have pizzas now that are already made, but not cooked, so all you do is put them in the oven. They're not that bad, actually.

I've had some of those take n bake pizzas of which Shiny speaks. They're not bad, and they have a ton less sodium and crap, because they're not made with a long shelf life or freezer durability in mind.

At any rate, that Totino's site is pretty damn insulting. It assumes that mom are fine with their kids dictating the evening menu, and that no one has the brains or the time to cook an actual meal. My mom never rolled like that, even when both my folks were working full-time. We generally ate actual meals made at home, at an actual dining table. It's possible, people.

"Be ready before a meal time meltdown occurs" is a particularly disturbing message for several reasons. We have to wonder why a kid would be having a "meltdown" because he's so hungry in the first place, WHY she would handle his anger with a quick junk food fix, and/or HOW shoving a high in sugar-fat and nutritionally void "food" down a kid's gullet would ever be the best answer to anything. If she can be prepared for a "meal time meltdown" with a freezer full of junk food, then she could instead either have a healthful meal planned and prepared ahead of time OR she can have her cupboards or refrigerator stocked with fruits and vegetables, cereal, or healthier choices in the first damned place!

It takes less time to hand a kid an apple or pour it a bowl of cereal than it does to take a frozen pizza out of it's packaging, nuke or bake it, and serve it.

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If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!

Because nothing says good parenting like giving your kid crap!

I do not have the greatest diet, but I draw the line at hard core crap.

Stuff with a load of chemicals in it tends to make me ill also.

Totinos makes Mama Celeste or Jack's Pizza look like gourmet items.

BARF.

I wouldn't even feed this shit to rabid raccoons. In fact I'll bet if you *would* leave it outdoors - animals wouldn't touch it. I've seen plenty of old food lying around for ages - animals won't touch it and it appears not to degrade at all.

Word to the wise - when even seagulls turn up their beaks at food - it's NASTAY.

There were no 'mealtime meltdowns' at my home. I ate what I was served, and STFU about it. Even if it was cabbage and homemade hamburger patties for three or four days in a row - my moo and I were poor.

I rarely ever got frozen treats or fast food. When we went over to my aunt and uncle's house for dinner, we always got great food there - complete dinners, like prime rib and homemade German spatzel, homemade chicken cordon bleu and other fabulous treats. It was always great eating over at her house.

As a result, I never really craved a lot of junky stuff, except for sweets which was the only thing I was allowed here and there when we went shopping.

If I DARED have a 'mealtime meltdown' my mother would have crowned me. We were fortunate enough to have food in front of us, and I learned to be grateful for whatever was presented to me.

I don't think I've ever had Totino's, although once in awhile I'll break open a can of ravioli if I"m really hungry and in a hurry. I've seen the boxes of frozen pizza rolls, and they've never really appealed to me.

Mooos who start their kyds off by feeding them this stuff on a regular basis, are simply conditioning them, to crave junk food more often in their teen and adult lives. It makes for a lot of whiny, chubby, sickly kyds AND adults. It certainly explains why I see a lot of people in their 20s who weigh more than 225 pounds.

The pizza rolls are a disgusting joke. The little $1.25 pizzas I'll sometime grab, like I said, if I'm really craving junk, but only once in a blue moon, since I'd rather spend the extra money and get the deli pizzas or something hot from Domino's or Pizza Hut. But the pizza rolls? It's pretty much greasy, tough, preservative-laden cardboard-like bread wrapped around some low quality 'tomato' sauce and a few sad little squares of processed meat product and a few strings of gross cheese. It's an insult to the word 'pizza'.

I love pizza! But I can make it myself, thank you very much. It's really not that hard to make a crust, throw some toppings on it and stick it in the oven for 20 minutes. I still had a terminal case of wee, when my father taught me how to do it. Some of those store pizzas are NASTY

There was no drama at the table when I was a kid. I could eat or I could not eat and wait until the next meal.

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During the Spokane World's Fair of 1973, us kids clamored for Chef Boyardee. Mother gave in, and bought us a tin. Worst thing we ever ate. We ckoked it down in silence, and never asked for it again.

The pasta, meat, and sauce were all the same texture and flavor. Absolutely terrible. Took me years to be able to order pasta in a restaurant in case they left the noodles in the pot all day.

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