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I grew up in the ’80s, when a lot of our mothers were dieting and some of them — in spite of their best intentions — were passing their feelings about weight down to their children. I thought my mother was overweight. Reader, she was not, but she said she was so I believed her. In retrospect we can all acknowledge that as a size 6-petite she was rather small. But she worried about her weight and wanted to make sure we were all healthy. (We were.)

I didn’t think about it at the time, but she also worried about money, and how much of it she and my dad had to spend to feed four children. Both of those things influenced what we learned about snacks. And some of that information was great. (No, really.)

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