Please Ask!

How do you suggest dealing with peer pressure? Sometimes there are just too many icky snacks getting passed out around the neighborhood. I hate to be the mom saying no. Any clever ideas for this hard liner?

I say avoid saying no. Your kid won't die from eating a bag of glowing orange "cheese" crackers every once in a while, and prohibiting it is probably just going to make it worse. Don't offer these things at your house. Offer other things that taste good. When I was growing up, I coveted other kids' lunches and all those pre-packaged things. Now there are some high quality pre-packaged foods (fruit leather is a good one, it's pure dried fruit) which might be good to drop into your envious little child's lunch every now and then.