I grew up a child of the 1980’s: Smurfs, Star Wars, playing outside all day, and fruit roll ups. I was lucky that it was normal for me to see my mom cooking a homemade meal most evenings in the kitchen. Even when I would come home late from gymnastics, we would rarely if ever, go to a drive-thru as she would have dinner waiting for me. Of course the 80’s were also categorized by casseroles and she apologizes to this day about the lack of fresh vegetables at a given meal. I reply, “Mom, it was the 80’s. No one had ever heard of kale back then.”

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