Her kids think she’s an almond mom… what do you think? 🤔
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I think when you use words like gross to describe food that is a solid hint you’re an almond mum.
Lots of additives, dyes and hfcs is gross…not sure what the problem is with recognizing that.
@@htebazileeilsel2293exactly. Going by this logic, all Indian moms are almond moms as they discourage eating processed food and encourage eating home cooked, healthy food.
this is a weird comment to me like doesn’t everyone use “gross” to describe food they don’t like. pickles and olives are gross to me. doesn’t make me an almond mom whatsoever
Personal preference is a thing.
I think they mean like added sugar which isn’t necessarily gross per se, but yh some food is gross like pickles for me.
i bet her kids sneak out to Wendy’s, McDonald’s etc etc 😂
As an almond mom kid they 100% do, i have a store nearby and i’m always getting mtn dew and skittles there
Probably smoking meth too…
If not now then when they move out.
@IAmAnItalianPizza so even though you grew up with good food, you still got brainwashed that take away is peak? How does that happen? I’d expect you’d have a refined palette at least.
@@HopeGardner3amedand they will overindulge on it for a long time until they learn
Didn’t the term “almond mom” come from Yolanda Hadid only allowing Bella and Gigi to eat a few almonds so they’d be skinny? I think this lady is possibly a “crunchy” mom but not an almond mom. She has a fully stocked pantry with a good variety of meal ingredients as well as snacks. I think the problematic part might be that the food she buys is very expensive (Erewhon) and inaccessible for most people, however if she can afford to feed her kids healthy food, she should.
I honestly see this pantry as a good example of a healthy, tasty meals and snacks. And remember we didn’t see her refrigerator, there might be better stuff in there!
Edit: lol autocorrect turned almond mom into almond milk
If she were crunchy she wouldn’t have all that packaged stuff.
yeah I agree, theres so many snacks in there, its just all healthy. Theres nothing wrong with eating healthy. The true test is the actual portions and amount of food you eat, and whether or not you comment on your children eating “too mcuh”
Yeah. Some people assume you have to feed your kids carcinogenic food to be a good parent apparently!
yeah i don’t think there’s enough from this video to say she’s specifically a almond mom, HOWEVER her kids expressing feels that she might be does set alarm bells off in my head a bit. an almond mom can have a good variety of ingredients or snacks, but if they’re not allowing their children to eat regularly enough/with enough variety, or they shame their children for eating, them your crossing the (in my opinion sometimes thin) line between crunchy mom and almond mom
Came here to say exactly this. Almond moms say “you’re hungry? Just have a few raw almonds and you won’t feel hungry anymore” *crunchy* moms say “you’re hungry? Here’s a meticulously stocked snack cabinet filled with options that do not contain artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.” I get that “clean eating” when taken to an extreme can constitute “restrictive eating” but it’s not inherently about minimizing calorie intake.
All the people in the comments not knowing about Orthorexia Nervosa and what qualifies as disordered eating, smh. Its not about being obsessed with being skinny, is just being obsessive with what you eat, in this case she’s obsessed with “healthy” vs “gross” ingredients.
Let me ask you a question- if someone is trying to heal from an autoimmune disease or prevent it from getting worse, so they cut out all ultra processed foods, gluten and dairy and focus on eating just meat, veggies, fruits and nuts and if they slip up actually can *feel* that it has affected them by a flair up, would you consider that “orthorexia”??? I think this “eating disorder” is illegitimate because it is a fact that the S.A.D. is contributing to higher cancer rates and higher rates of autoimmune disease and many other issues.
Another armchair psychologist in the comments. You aren’t qualified to diagnose anybody, get off the high horse
@@htebazileeilsel2293 wtf bro, of course it wouldn’t apply, you’re describing a completely different scenario, a very particular one. A person with an autoimmune disease NEEDS a different diet. Why would you think I was including people with legitimate food restrictions?
@@user-fc4xg5ym1t Dw, I know I have no authority on the subject. Sorry you took an opinion on a short about disordered eating as a diagnosis.
@@Papapupapirapapa you’re missing my point, if cutting out these highly processed foods helps you *heal* from a disease then that tells you something about the food/additives. This is different from an allergy because people can be allergic to commonly healthy foods. Its no secret that all of our wheat products in the country contain unsafe levels of glyphosate, so one might cut out wheat in order to prevent disease in the future- trying to eat cleaner is not orthorexia and I think this diagnosis is thrown around to make people who want to avoid this junk as “crazy” or “disordered”
All her PROCESSED food sitting in a cupboard is PROCESSED food. Just because she paid 5x as much as exactly the same processed food minus the oath (totally unverified) of purity is sad/ ridiculous.
A snack bar made with 5 simple ingredients , that you could basically make at home is not the same as a candy bar…I make my own protein packed cookies made with high quality ingredients and coconut sugar, are they “processed”, yes because they underwent a process and a blending of ingredients-but are they the same as a chips ahoy cookie that is made with glyphosate soaked wheat, highly processed white sugar and preservatives and artificial colors/flavors and inflammatory oils? Absolutely not.
People should clarify that they mean “ultra processed” foods, when they say processed. You’re being obtuse.
@@htebazileeilsel2293 yes but is she making balanced, home cooked meals? Doubt it. I see no raw ingredients like vegetables, fruit or proteins
@@htebazileeilsel2293 “Inflammatory oils”???
@@pamelacox540seed oil fear mongering is all
@@htebazileeilsel2293 Anything ground out in a factory is processed. All the “purity” garbage is not in any way regulated. You just have the manufacturers word for it. And anyone that thinks any processed sugar is better than another is gullible enough to be duped and pay a premium for nothing.
Takes one to know one, you’re definitely an almond mom with your new organic anti bloating protein powder 😂
What’s funny is she stole the idea of an anti-bloat protein from popflex/blogilates, who she has criticized before.
@@Updog89Exactly, but Abbey gets a pass because she’s a dietitian. “Anti bloat” claims are literally straight outta diet culture, idk who she thinks she’s fooling lol
I would categorize her as granola… but not an almond mom. That video doesn’t show any form of diet restriction. She stocks with a variety of snacks… that she has the privilege to buy.
This is no different to a mom who chooses to make her baby food from scratch to avoid dyes and preservatives.
What I’m a tad bit confused is how you can judge this mom with such little info… but simultaneously tell the other mom feeding her infant donuts for breakfast that she’s doing a good job?
Both moms are doing what they think best… and just because this mom has the privilege to afford higher quality foods doesnt make it ok to shame her.
I agree! Both videos were disappointing. Both moms hopefully do their best, so why judge the one who’s more privileged and knowledgeable about nutrition while suggesting the mom who gives her one year old donuts does a great job?
And honestly, as a kid who grew up not eating artificially flavored food, I’m really glad about that because if you grow up with “real food” and that’s what you like best, it’s so much easier to eat a balanced diet and listen to your body. As long as there isn’t crazy fear-mongering and extreme restriction, I don’t see why you would criticize a mom for avoiding artificial ingredients…
Is it shaming though? All she said is that ‘yes you are an almond mom’ not that she’s being a bad parent or that the food is bad
@@justme-qd6qbthe term almond mom is inherently negative as it refers to a woman who shamed her kid’s food choices and/or tries to manipulate and control them in an unhealthy way. Otherwise I guess it’s just an almond person? That being said there’s actually snacks in that cupboard, she’s not an almond mom unless her kids are severely limited to how much they can eat, and I’m a little done with this creator tbh
@@scottybateman7033the mother in this video is showing her pantry.
By your definition that would give absolutely no hint about if she is an “almond mom” or not.
So why would she say “Am ai an almond mom? Here is my pantry. Tell me.”
No one is shaming her😂
She literally asked for people’s opinions and that’s what she got.
I don’t see anything wrong with her pantry…looks like healthy and nutritious food. Plenty of stuff out government allows in our food IS “gross”
Same this looks great to me
You act like all these ingredients in her “healthy” packaged food isn’t “gross”
@@Chskss-mx4zlWhat’s gross about packaged food?
@@Updog89 it’s processed by the government
@@Chskss-mx4zl Lol no honey the government doesn’t do food processing, private industries do. The government just oversees processing standards and incentivizes the production of certain agricultural sectors.
There isn’t anything intrinsically wrong with processing food… do you even know what that term means? Not all processed food is unhealthy, you gotta educate yourself a little better about what that actually entails and what the research suggests. Most studies show eating higher proportions of “ultra-processed foods” (meaning the processing they undergo tends to strip them almost completely of nutrients and incorporate more preservatives and artificial ingredients) is bad for health outcomes if it’s done on a regular basis. But most of those foods she showed in her pantry very much avoid that. As long the kids are snacking on those in the context of a balanced diet (which we don’t see because we just saw the snacks) they are gonna be just fine.
Her kids are getting healthy carbs, fiber, protein, vitamins and other nutrients from those snacks, they aren’t the demographic researchers are worried about.
She is definitely well off financially… that pantry could pay my rent for a month or 2 maybe.
What I wanna know is do any of you who are hating on the womans pantry have a special category or label for people who drink 3 mountain dews a day and eat nothing but ultra processed chips, cookies and fast food? Would you have a problem if her pantry had doritos and candy and pop in it? If the answer is “no”, there is actually something very wrong with your thought process.
It’s called silky moms, and let’s be real there’s plenty of shaming about that already. Which especially sucks for poor parents
exactly and thats what kind of annoys me w abbey sharp and her audience. anyone mindful of ultra processed foods or certain ingredients is an “almond mom” “restricting” “privileged” “problematic” etc.. but gorging on over 50 grams of sugar and guzzling gallons of canola oil a day w no thought is “food freedom” LOL. how convenient for big pharma
@@justme-qd6qb you don’t *have* to eat ultra processed stuff if youre poor. A lot of ultra processed foods are pretty expensive just look how much a bag of chips costs!
@@justme-qd6qbHave you even stepped into a grocery store since the start of the inflation? Prices of packaged foods have also gone through the roof, go look at the cereal prices. Stop acting like choosing to buy processed foods is cheaper and just admit that most people are just addicted to junk food and don’t want to change. That’s the most likely scenario
I feel like almond mom has to do with calorie restriction rather than only eating “healthy”. Almond moms eat two almonds and call that dinner. She has a ton of junk food but it’s just “organic”
Almond mom absolutely includes orthorexia. She’s still restricting just ingredients instead of calories overall. Like with all these no- products you’re gonna be deficient in something at the end of the day. And as someone W a mum who explores every side of the almond, clean eating only stays ‘unrestrictive’ for so long before it’s not healthy enough and you need new rules
@@lizdexamphetamine The no-products are generally lacking additives and vitamin supplements that make up for the loss of natural vitamins. That’s all. I don’t think everyone absolutely NEEDS the sprayed-on vitamins to avoid being deficient.
Anyway, I see it like when people watch the “How it’s made” videos about something like hotdogs. If you learn about the process of the random stuff thrown in your ultra-processed foods like “Butylated Hydroxytoluene” when there’s way safer preservatives that exist such as citric acid, ascorbic acid, sodium benzoate, etc., you might be grossed out in a similar way. I don’t think it’s that presssing of an issue.
Honestly this might be a hot take but I see no issue with having nuts and berries as a snack, Granola bars were almost always my at home snack, “the kidd probably sneak out at wendys” yeah and the mom probably knows that too, I love eating junk food with my friends, but I understand a mom saying “AT LEAST while they are at home I want them to eat a friking apple”
Like it is a very American experience to think oreos and chips are part of the basic grocery list, believe me I had no problems getting those at school lol, but its nice that at least at home the kids can get a vegetable or two, and as an adult it doesn’t feel like it was restrictive or like I need to compensate, it just feels like when I’m at home I eat at home food, and when I’m with friends I eat whatever its more convenient
Almond moms are moms who are obsessed with eating “healthy” foods, that is an eating disorder it’s very specific one cannot remember the name. These “healthy” foods are pretty much just what most people call superfoods(though most of the things she is showing are Still ultra process). Like the lady doesn’t even have a bag of tostitos corn chips which are not healthy for you but it’s nice to have a little snack
@@vozera723Maybe she doesn’t like Tostitos chips and prefers healthier alternatives? I guess if you eat healthy you’re an almond mom with “orthorexia” 🤡
This is a lot of judgment off a short clip. TBH. She has snacks and food available for her children…. No she’s not an almond mom who pretty much doesn’t let her kids eat. I bet her 17 year old is just embarrassed that her mom buys the organic brands of snack foods and then calls her mom an almond mom because it’s trendy. 17 year olds can be right but they can also say dumb stuff because they are still growing. Like no I do not think a teenager calling their parent a popular internet label is enough of a red flag to past this kind of judgement.
Are we really just accusing random women online of pushing eating disorders onto their kids now?
It’s giving ✨ pick me mom ✨
I think of almond moms as crunchy moms with orthorexia. A simple pantry tour doesn’t really reveal how she handles family dinners with her kids, or how she talks about food around her kids. We would need to see more.
I might have a bias as I grew up with my almond mum and my grandparents, so it wasn’t only her stocking cupboards or influencing my little brain, but imo here even the snacks are centred around mums idea of wellness, all of their pasta is “alternative” pasta, there are no normal kid things in there, like cereal or chips the muesli bars are diet branded etc. My mum would always have her almond food but my grandparents made sure I had normal kid snacks (not like of candy and chocolate but like, they’d get me full sugar granola bars and rollups for school)
@@lizdexamphetaminekids should have candy.
Yeah, very little. You don’t need just straight sugar.
@IsaacMyers1 my mother wasn’t an almond mom but she strongly restricted us from a lot of junk food. Cotton candy, popcorn, potato chips etc. We were allowed certain types of sweets but most of them werent allowed. The first thing I did the first time I went outside without my mother, was to buy cotton candy. Was it that good? No. But it was nice to be able to try it to know that it tasted like.
This.
This lady isn’t asking the internet. She thinks it’s a flex. 😂
This part, she’s almost proud of it, if my kid said that id be so concerned
@@shanel4294 And why shouldn’t she be? Guarantee this woman’s children have healthier diets than 90% of their peers. If she were proud of taking her children to eat fast food everyday, then there would be a problem.
Wrong Channel bud @@lakeshelor6159
@@lakeshelor6159completely restricting children from sugar and “unhealthy” foods is also a problem. They see other children enjoying those things and feel miserable. They also develop an unhealthy relationship with food because when they finally do get access to those foods they won’t be able to moderate their consumption and feel guilty.
@@lakeshelor6159 wtf are you talking about, her pantry is literally just full of sugar and carbs disguised as ‘healthy alternatives’ because it doesn’t have any “artificial ingredients” whatever that means lmao…
Squash pasta – literally just carbs
Trail mix with chocolate – sugar
Blueberry bar – sugar
Soft Baked bars with dark chocolate – tons of sugar
She’s the definition of almond mom because health isn’t her concern, just calories hence why all of these foods aren’t healthy they are just low calorie.
Hope that clears it up for you! x
Preferring these foods doesn’t automatically make you an almond mom. The questions are how do you react when your kids eat something or ask for something that isn’t this type of food? How do you talk about your own body, other people’s bodies, and your children’s bodies in relation to food?
I follow this person. She has a teenager, toddler and infant.
Her family is pretty well-off, they’re almost always eating out at cool places and her kids get to eat whatever from what it looks like. I think it’s more she has “healthier” foods in the house (especially for the younger kids), but when they go out, it’s free game. So i don’t think I’d classify her as ‘almond’ in the whole lifestyle sense.
This is exactly why we don’t judge off one video. Abbey comes off entitled and just as bad as the influencers she puts down.
Whats her @??
Well she’s just recating to this video and off this video I’d say she’s an almond mum
@@crazymusicchick On the other hand she once reacted to a mom giving her small child a donut for breakfast and said it’s totally fine and found reasons to justifies that. Here one word is enough for judgement… It always seems to hit only one side of the spectrum
The internet has gone mad when we shame Mothers for providing healthy snacks for her kids 😂
Both of my parents grew up poor and I ate a ton of crappy junk food as a kid because they didn’t know any better. I have a bunch of health problems as an adult because of it and had to relearn what it means to eat a nutritious diet as an adult. When I have kids, I will also fill my pantry with healthy, nutritious foods- this mom is doing a good thing.