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Just a Spoonful of Sugar...
by Tammy Harrison

I had a fight with a candy bar package the other night. I had sent our daughter to her Brownie meeting with smores, and she returned with a whole package of chocolate bars. I hid them from the kids, thinking they would be a perfect midnight snack when I was craving a sugar rush. I must have been overly eager to taste the delectable smoothness of the confections as it took me a half hour just to get the package opened!

As I walked the aisles of the grocery store yesterday, I started really paying attention to the packaging. Those marketing experts are not idiots, I'll give them that! The packages for the kids are bright, inviting and way cool to their target audience! But, beyond the labels and the colors, I noticed something else -- most of the packages that contained vast amounts of sugar were the ones that were double and triple wrapped!

The meat has a single layer of cellophane protecting it from the elements. The orange juice is contained in a carton. The fruits and vegetables are naked!

Although I was quite aggravated with the chocolate bar the other night, I realized that maybe it wasn't so bad, for my kids, that the package was as safe as the child-proof lids on their vitamins. Now, if the packaging gurus could just figure out how to secure the toothpaste lid from the bathroom monsters, I could sleep a little better!