I agree with a lot of what you said. It's easy to look at what I wrote and conclude: don't introduce pouches, easy. Be extremely deliberate in what you put on t

I agree with a lot of what you said. It's easy to look at what I wrote and conclude: don't introduce pouches, easy. Be extremely deliberate in what you put on the table, easy. I don't disagree with those things in concept. I'd love to execute a process every day that is perfection with respect to ingredient quality, time-spent, food consumed, etc. But I don't know a lot of people who somehow do all of this flawlessly - perhaps none in fact. Also, what I didn't say is that you weigh what you want to control, how you want to impose rules with how much stress and anxiety you're willing to deal with in the process. Suppose your kid cries for 30 minutes straight because they really want a pouch vs. chickpea pasta you've put in front of them. At some point, is that anxiety-inducing event worth it? Or, can you compromise sometimes with a pouch that helps everyone (kids, adults) get something they want.