When I was little, we had very little variation when it comes to choices of snacks and treats. There’s the familiar brownie, choco fudge, chiffon cake, or sometimes even rice meals. For treats, we had chocolate nuggets, jelly, chocolate gold coins, and when possible, ice cream.

Nowadays, people choose from a number of flavors of instant noodles. In fact, when I went to the hypermarket earlier, there were several shelves that were dedicated for instant stuff alone.

I told myself we’d never reach that point when we don’t have any other option for mateo or anika’s snacks. Never mind if they’re forced to take on rice meals, so long as they don’t depend exclusively on instant noodles.