Where did this thing come from? Along with the stereotype of girls drinking coffee and eating nothing else? And the “almond mom” thing? Do women not eat? What’s the history of this cultural thingy?
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Girl dinner isn’t about the size of the meal or not eating enough, it’s about cobbling together random stuff rather than cooking a meal. Like having a dinner made of some baby-bell cheese rounds, a cup of noodles you found in the pantry and a bowl of breakfast cereal.
Technically have your grains, proteins, and fats, and it’s enough food but it’s not like a “meal” in the traditional sense. A lot of people do this it’s not something new or exclusive to girls/women, but the name “girl dinner” and women being open about this on social media was a way of low key subverting expectations of domesticity and these perfect “instagram-able” meals, and/or part of the larger trend of being more candid about mental health and struggling (eg. goblin mode).
Almond moms is a whole other unrelated thing, girl dinner has nothing to do with diet culture or not eating
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