Is pop part of your grocery lists?
When I go to Costco, I see carts loaded with pop, potato chips, munchies galore.
When I was growing up, my mom had strict rules against junk food and these things were never allowed to be in the grocery carts.
As in never.
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Pop??? Pop?? Pop!!! 
Sorry, but you northerners are so cute 
I do not buy soft drinks at all for our house. The only time my kids are allowed to drink sodas is out at a dawat or occasionally at a restaraunt.
As far as chips , cookies, snacks go, yes I do buy them for my boys, but in moderation. I don’t want to deprive them of anything, but I don’t let them indulge mindlessly either.
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Dude…as soon as I hit post I thought of YOU!
Yes, yes…we call it pop out here…
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when bro’s son is home during holidays, yes our cart at least has one case of 24 cans. he can’t live without diet pepsi! 
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Growing up my parents let us binge on soda face palm Their reasoning being it provides ‘energy’ Umm no mom and dad its actually called sugar rush…we were not bad kids, we were hyper-active…
But my husband and I hardly drink soft drinks ourselves so never introduced it to the kids either. We hardly even buy store bought orange/apple juice or even ice tea. I do like to have it for dawats, and I don’t do this diet/aspartame, If I am gonna have a soda every 6 months I am gonna have a coke/pepsi, not some coke zero or half crap…or whatever it is that they call it 
What amazes me is that when desis invite people over, they have more soda pop and less water at the table. The usual ratio is 5 two liters bottle of pop to one pitcher of water. What the h?
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Growing up, my parents were quite strict about junk food and my brother and I were never allowed to drink fizzy drinks, sweetened juices or other rubbish. This included family dinner parties or other family gatherings. We always ate our meals with water. The only exception I can think of is children’s parties. Other than that, they never bought things like that.
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It’s a downwards spiral, these sodas. Once you start making a habit of them, it’s harder to wean yourself off of them. I was never fond of them & my hubby claims that he was not fond either before marriage, but after marriage he has a serious problem if there isn’t coke in the house! Not only is it horrible for your body, it’s unnecessary money down the drain.
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didn’t you know that back home [at least in small city in India] offering soft drinks is part of the treating a guest. i remember host asking us “ThanDa (soft drink or sharbat) piyeNge yaa garam (tea)”…the ThanDa used to be coke/pepsi/campa cola/Thumbs up/Limca/Gold Spot etc.
even now, people like to treat guests with pepsi/coke if nothing else is available.
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I don’t have a habit of drinking soda, but there is always a well stocked variety in our home because we get frequent guests and host frequent dinner parties… We have it all Pepsi, Diet Coke, Sprite, Diet 7up, Crush, and Mountain Dew. Pepsi dominates.
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What’s a pop ?
Do you mean Soda…
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LOL…
I thought you meant POP TARTS
and
accidentally wrote…
POP PART
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We very rarely buy soda/pop at our home. If we have guests, they are served water, oj, labban, or tea. We do buy cookies and chips but in a very moderate quantity. We are not buying them on every shopping trip. We have somewhat introduced our son to sweets, however when we go grocery shopping, he is not allowed to pick candies, chips, etc. He can choose a fruit/vegetable and munch on it while we are at the store. He loves it. :)))
It is very cute to watch him walking around the store holding a big bell pepper, broccoli head, apple, avocado, etc. 
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My monthly grocery list includes two different types of cookies and one big pack of crisps and a pack of chocolates, but no soda at all.
As I mentioned in another thread, my kids get crisps every Friday , and chocolates every Tuesday. Cookies are used when no fruit / homemade stuff is there at milk time in evenings. I used to bake my own cookies when we were in Europe but ever since we came to Pakistan I can’t seem to do it somehow.
I grew up with a mother who made everything at home. When I was in hostel during my college years, my room mates/ class mates used to gather up to see what ammi sent with me this time. The goodies she gave m every time included finger crisps, chocolate ki mithai, muffins, cookies, nimko etc. etc. that was the maximum, we got in the name of junk.
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You want junk food?
I am your man 
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He is adorable Mashallah…such a cuuuuute kidddd!
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We buy pop but we keep it in our store room for last minute guests…its not in the kitchen and is not consumed by anyone in the household.
Cookies come rarely.
My mom buys no potato chips…for snacks my family has always grazed on nuts. There’s alwayssss a mixture of almonds, cashews, peanuts, etc that have been roasted sitting on the kitchen table for anyone who’s got the munchies.
And I don’t think I ever thought about it until now…that those things are not staples in our home.
It does alarm me a little bit I think because I feel in America everything is always in excess. We eat in larger quantities than I think any other country!
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diet soda. it’s an addiction.
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I’m addicted to chips for life.
Don’t really like cookies or soft drinks much. Occasionally eat a chocolate or cheesecake slice.