Life Lessons at the grocery store

While at the grocery store today Gabi asked if she could get fruit cocktail. I normally don't buy that sort of thing but I ok'ed it. She grabbed a can that was at her eye level and read "Healthy Kids" off of the label and threw it in the cart. Looking at the shelf I noticed that this particular kind was packed in light syrup. Glancing up two rows, I see fruit cocktail that is packed in juice.

Grabbing a can of each, I knelt down and asked Gabi to read the ingredients. Pears, peaches, water, sugar...was read of the "Healthy Kids" label. Pears, peaches, water, pineapple, pear juice, cherries was read off the other. I asked Gabi which one she thought was a better choice and she promptly replied the one without sugar.

Flipping the can around she was shocked to see that the chosen can was not the one labeled as healthy. "Why?" she asked. I launched into a spiel about advertising and how they want you to buy their product so they use words to get your attention. Since kids like (and probably eat the most) fruit cocktail they put "healthy kids" on the label thinking more parents would choose that one over all of the other choices. I thought that most of this went in one ear and out the other since about halfway through she was concentrating only on hopping like a kangaroo.

Several minutes and random discussions later she exclaimed "They tried to trick me!"

Confused I asked what she was talking about.

"Those fruit people! They tried to trick us. But it didn't work! Ha!"

I guess she was listening after all.