Teacher criticized my kid's lunch

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:anyone sending their kids with a pb sandwich is lazy and sending disgusting unhealthy food.. They should be publicly humiliated and shamed into providing better food.

Also, wondering what you send your kid to school with. Would looove a sample menu.

Stir fry free range organic chicken breast and organic veges and sobe noodles made fresh the previous night
hand cut chicken tenders baked in olive oil
hand pulled organic gain fed beef stew with organic veges over

etc...

Read any parent magazine to get some good easy recipes. If your food doesn't consist of turning on the stove and cooking it's probably terrible. Getting some crappy wonder bread, opening a jar of peanut butter and jelly/honey slapping it on there and calling it a day is giving up on your kids health and shows zero parental effort.

SOBA NOODLES?! WHY ARE YOU FEEDING YOUR CHILD THAT TOXIC SHIT?@!?!

If that post wasn't a joke, then I feel so terribly sorry for you. Your kid is in for a world of eating disorders when s/he's older. I can only imagine how else you parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Read any parent magazine to get some good easy recipes. If your food doesn't consist of turning on the stove and cooking it's probably terrible. Getting some crappy wonder bread, opening a jar of peanut butter and jelly/honey slapping it on there and calling it a day is giving up on your kids health and shows zero parental effort.

Yes, there's nothing quite so awful, and awful for you, as raw fruits and vegetables. Also, sushi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Read any parent magazine to get some good easy recipes. If your food doesn't consist of turning on the stove and cooking it's probably terrible. Getting some crappy wonder bread, opening a jar of peanut butter and jelly/honey slapping it on there and calling it a day is giving up on your kids health and shows zero parental effort.

SOBA NOODLES?! WHY ARE YOU FEEDING YOUR CHILD THAT TOXIC SHIT?@!?!

If that post wasn't a joke, then I feel so terribly sorry for you. Your kid is in for a world of eating disorders when s/he's older. I can only imagine how else you parent.

Still, I'm impressed. I've never made soba noodles by hand. (Although I did make Italian buckwheat-flour noodles by hand, once.) Obviously the peanut-butter-hating PP is a better parent than I am. I will apologize to my children when I see them this evening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:anyone sending their kids with a pb sandwich is lazy and sending disgusting unhealthy food.. They should be publicly humiliated and shamed into providing better food.

The sad thing is I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. If not, then this is one of the weirder things I've read on DCUM. And that's saying something around here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PBJ is trailer trash food which is basically a candy bar. Its also bad form to bring peanuts to school. Shame on you.

PBJ is not bad if you use natural PB and all-fruit jelly (no sugar). My kid is allergic to tree nuts, but not peanuts, so he eats PBJ regularly. I really don't see how it's junk food if you use good PB, good jelly, and good bread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PBJ is trailer trash food which is basically a candy bar. Its also bad form to bring peanuts to school. Shame on you.

PBJ is not bad if you use natural PB and all-fruit jelly (no sugar). My kid is allergic to tree nuts, but not peanuts, so he eats PBJ regularly. I really don't see how it's junk food if you use good PB, good jelly, and good bread.

Because you didn't stand in front of a stove and cook it, obviously! Therefore, you should pack your kid GRILLED peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

[Anonymous]

^^^meaning pan-fried. Or just plain fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, a la Elvis.

[Anonymous]

This actually cracks me up. Our pre-school teacher said I was sending too many sugary snacks for my toddler - it's always cut up fruits and veggies. Too many carbs. You can't always win these battles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I give my kid PBJ every day, apple slices, and carrot sticks. It's just as easy to throw in carrot sticks as the other things. At least it wasn't a Lunchable.

Take out the J and that is the lunch I pack at least 2 days a week. easy peasy

[Anonymous]

I generally encourage my kids to steal lunches from the other children, particularly the well dressed and groomed ones. They have the best food.

[Anonymous]

This thread is so funny! You all are killing me here!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I generally encourage my kids to steal lunches from the other children, particularly the well dressed and groomed ones. They have the best food.

Me too. We call it trading. We send her with a box of twinkies every day, and she reports that she eats a ton of raw vegetables and hummus instead. Thanks guys!

[Anonymous]

It is cultural. Americans throw PG and J in their crappy brown paper bagged lunches and wonder why obesity is so rampant. Stop that crap and cook a real meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This actually cracks me up. Our pre-school teacher said I was sending too many sugary snacks for my toddler - it's always cut up fruits and veggies. Too many carbs. You can't always win these battles.

No kidding. There are a lot of self-appointed experts on nutrition and feeding out there, and they are often worse than useless. If a teacher or administrator at a school is worried about a child's lunch because it seems as though the kid's family can't afford groceries, sure, the teacher should see if it's possible to help. Criticizing what a kid is eating? Here, help yourself to a big steaming mug of STFU.

There is no food that is good for everyone. If you aren't the child's doctor, you don't know what the kid needs to eat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is cultural. Americans throw PG and J in their crappy brown paper bagged lunches and wonder why obesity is so rampant. Stop that crap and cook a real meal.

My children bring their lunches in lunch boxes, not brown paper bags. Maybe that's why my children not obese?

(Actually there is probably a negative relationship over time between percent of children bringing peanut butter sandwiches for lunch at school and childhood obesity rates. But I doubt that it's a causal relationship.)