Judging

Years ago when I was a Girl Scout Co-leader, the other leader and I would have each girl take a turn at bringing a snack to our meetings. Since we had a group of girls who came from homes where both parents worked, home made treats usually gave way to store bought cookies, pudding cups, fruit roll ups, etc. The funny part was that most people seemed to put the snacks in bags which contained their receipts from grocery store visits if they didn't stop on the way to pick up snack and of course always left the receipt in the bag. Being the person I am I always laid the receipt up and made sure that I asked that weeks owner if they needed it before throwing it away.We had a couple girls who got bored waiting for snack to be served and were known to grab these receipts and read off what all had been bought. The other leader and I of course discouraged this practice but it still happened more than we liked.
One day after admonishing a girl for doing this a parent who was in attendance admitted that she found it interesting what people would buy and that it said something about them. yes, she was right but how true was this? How about the lady who always cooks nightly dinner from scratch but picked up boxed potatoes to donate to the food bank ? How about the Mom who gets up early every morning to cook her children breakfast who buys a box of cereal for her preschoolers to make fruit loop necklaces as an organized preschool craft. I didn't like how people could be judged by a one time shopping trip.
This being said, after Cindy's appointment Tuesday I found myself in Save A lot buying jello & pudding cups, cotton candy flavored yogurt, cottage cheese, three different kinds of Popsicles,canned tomato soup, chocolate milk, & 7 up. These were all soft foods which were recommended for Cindy.With the exception of the chocolate milk and cottage cheese, these are also things that I never buy but what would someone from the outside think ? Here I am an overweight Mom buying $35 worth of junk. Surely many would shake their heads in shame ! I guess it just goes to show, you can't judge a person, or a family on what appears to be. I think in one way or another this is something that most of us need to work on. Oh and by work on I don't mean to make sure that you shred your junk food receipts before anyone sees them in an attempt to claim that you never buy the junk that the Jones' do !Just thought I'd clarify that