I ate a lot of junk when I was pregnant. Who had time to cook? I would make Hamburger helper, chicken nuggets from a box, pasta from a package where you just add butter and milk. I didn't care what the package really said.
My son ended up with a soy allergy from the time he was 14 months old.
So I had to go back and read all the boxes and packages and see what was safe for him to eat. It made me re-evaluate everything and realize how much food is fake or not real. Like Chicken Noodle soup from a can has SOY in the chicken instead of real chicken but who would think it? It looks like chicken noodle soup.
Now I read packages and if it is something I don't recognize or sounds like it is full or corn syrup solids or fillers of Yellow #14 then it is not going in the grocery cart.
I cook most stuff from scratch. Usually I cook the night before and then serve it the next day to the dck. So Lasagna is not from a package - i make it, stews, goulash, spaghetti and even mac and cheese. I make grilled cheese using real bricks of cheese and whole wheat bread -never cheese slices. I won't even serve pudding because the ingredients sound sketchy.
Every 3-4 weeks I end up needing a shortcut day for whatever reason like if I didn't get home until late the night before or whatever and then I will open a can of soup or a box of KD with a vegetable on the side and parents know that it could happen once in a blue moon but it is certainly not a regular thing.
I know i have kids where they eat KD several times a week and the parents tell me that but I still try to feed the dck what I feed my own kids. The rule is - if I wouldn't want my kids to eat it then I won't serve it to someone else