As to why they didn't just eat the grapes plain, I think the mentality was to stretch everything as far as it could go and then some, lol...if everyone just ate the grapes, each kid would only get a few and if they enjoyed them and got used to eating them as a snack, it would get really expensive really quick.
I'm surprised the main kid was allowed to make himself the Jiffy pop popcorn, in our house those were for a special treat on Saturday night and we had to share.
I am loving this show, I have always been fascinated by large families and how they eat. My family was small and my mom made small portions of ethnic food and I hated it. I loved going to friends houses where the mom made casseroles and served slices of bread with tubs of butter and plain jane chocolate chip cookies!!! My mom made dark little cookies with lots of nuts that I didn't care for. Oh and the milk!! My best friend lived on a dairy farm and her family drank whole milk, we never ever had whole milk, my mom didn't even like to buy milk! And the big boxes of generic cereal or Captain Vitamin, I was in heaven! We had hippy dippy granola shit back when it wasn't good like it is now.
And that wallpaper with the rose's on it makes me swoon!