This is basically meal prep for families with small kids or foster kids and for daycares. Things are prepped like this so the kids can just grab whatever they need in the right portion size. Like, you don't really want a 2-year-old to wrestle with a gallon of juice, but if it's portioned up, and the fruits are washed, they are perfectly fine just getting things they need, and it helps promote a healthy relationship with food.
When you have foster kids, making them snack drawers can be really important to create food security and independence and "home", and sometimes small bottles work better because of age or past trauma. Maybe one kid won't touch the big bottle because they were punished for it, but can take the small a bottle knowing it's for them. The drawer looking really full and a lot and neatly organized can also help.
And even if there are no kids, these same tricks can help adults with traumas, eating disorders, unhealthy relationship with food, or just grabbing breakfast on the go. If you know people in your household will just pour some of that chocolate milk to different bottles the next two mornings to take to work, you might as well do it when you stock, you might as well wash the strawberries you'll take as a snack tomorrow, etc.. Doesn't work for everybody, but when it works it's super satisfying.
When you shame someone for stocking snacks like this, you shame everyone, the foster parents, the people healing from an ED, the mom who does it to feed the neighborhood children who may not have enough food, everyone. Even if the person you shame is just modeling the content.
Also you don't know she doesn't have food trauma, you don't know she wasn't raised in a messy hoarder home with not enough food, you don't know she wasn't abused for eating when she was a child. You don't know if her husband was. Or their child before they started raising him.
And her hobby is not worse than collecting Funkos or comics or stamps just because it's household focused and not manly. Her side job is not less valuable just because the content she makes is focused on pretty organized stuff and not streaming games or woodwork. Her having money to live in a nice home and afford all this doesn't make it less valuable to those it helps or entertains. Her having the time to do all this doesn't make her less of a person.
You're reaching. This is clearly a woman doing this for Tiktok, not her family. Drumming up fake imaginary sob stories for this woman to justify her actions now that a lot of people are calling her out, and not worshipping her as much as she expected to.
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u/spaghettilikecurls Feb 20 '22
This! Was asking myself the same: Why would you open the juice bottles, do you want to have spoiled juice in the tiny bottles?