parents. I am an overweight adult of healthy eating, healthy weight parents. Although they divorced when I was very young, both remarried healthy, thin people as well. I grew up in a home where we had water or milk with meals. No juice, no soda. My mom regularly cooked with whole wheat pasta, ground turkey, spices and LOTS of VEGETABLES. My dad's biggest indulgement was steak and spaghetti at my grandma's house on Sundays. My friends had Lunchables and Twinkies in their lunch bags. I had tofu & carrot sandwiches with an apple. I always felt deprived. When I moved out on my own, I felt free to buy whatever I wanted at the grocery store. And to eat fast food, which I RARELY had growing up. My bad eating habits have continued. I am married to a man who is not overweight but does not have very good eating habits. And I now have 2 young children, the oldest will usually name a restaurant when you ask him what he wants for dinner. I know we ALL need to make some big changes. All this to say that your relationship with food can be bad even when your parents have been the very best models. For the cooks out there, when did you first learn to appreciate preparing nutrition meals for yourself or your family? I grew up in a home with average to slightly overweight parents. They both worked full time and my mom was in graduate school.