What makes a family give lunchables for lunch every day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All that cured meat in childhood sounds like a recipe for colon cancer.

Look around you, sweetie. We’re ALL raising our kids in an absolutely toxic hellhole. That cured meat is a drop in the ocean.

Yes there are lots of pollutants for us to work hard to avoid as much as we can.

That’s no excuse for choosing to feed your child cured meats, a known carcinogen and which are advised to be totally avoided by any halfway intelligent doctor, and sugary carbs every single day for lunch.

It’s lazy and careless parenting. Period.

An all the way intelligent doctor will tell you all things in moderation. You can stick to your halfway intelligent doc if you prefer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op-you still haven’t explained how you know that all 3 children in this family ONLY ever get lunchables and nothing else every day?

She doesn’t, because OP is a troll and this family doesn’t exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with op. Have you guys looked at the ingredients of those things? Pure junk, designed by food scientists to be hyper palatable to our kids.

The parents who are like “I know Lunchables are crap but what can I do, they’re all my kid will eat” is one thing. But to be so delusional as to ask “What’s wrong with Lunchables? They’re great!” is just…

Exactly! Listen I am not trying to say everyone needs to pack their kids organic free range farm fresh from scratch blah blah in every lunch but I think there is a happy medium between that and lunchables.

I recently read the book Salt, Sugar, Fat, which is about the food industry and it was really eye opening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ate a PB&J and pack of Oreos or bag of potato chips (or both) everyday for lunch as a kid and don’t think that was unique among my classmates growing up in the 90s — lunchables everyday would have been healthier!

Anyway, if this is all my kid would eat, it’s not the hill I’d die on.

The chips and Oreos aren’t great, but a PB&J on whole wheat bread is vastly healthier than feeding your child carcinogenic deli meat day in and day out for years.

Deli meat should be at most a very occasional treat. It is best avoided altogether.

It’s crazy to read the posts in this thread and the see you all posting in threads about the rise of colon cancer in young people and being oblivious to the obvious connections between diets heavy in cured meat and processed garbage and young people dying of colon cancer.

I’m 53 years old and ate PB&J daily for years as a kid. Tuna salad a few times a week. Fruit as a side, no garbage chips or cookies. Sometimes school lunch when I was younger, but that was back when schools had kitchens and they cooked actual food that looked very much like the healthy meals cooked at home.

Shoveling processed foods and fizzy sugar laden drinks into your kids daily for decades and then wondering with anxiety, will my kids get colon cancer?

Other things that cause cancer but that a lot of adults seem to be okay with:

Alcohol (it's just straight facts that any amount of alcohol is way more likely to cause cancer than deli meat).
Steak
Not wearing sunscreen
Not getting the HPV shot
Air pollution

I think that it's really important to be responsible parents, but it's impossible to be perfect and sometimes we have to make judgment calls. And being judgmental about what other parents do is not going to make their kids' lives better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh go away. You know NOTHING about this family or their child.

Sometimes kids with special needs will only eat certain foods.

Also, a lunchable is not the worst thing a child could eat, especially if they also include things like peas, blueberries, popcorn, etc.

MYOB OP.

Isn't a lunchable just the kid version of a charcuterie board?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ate a PB&J and pack of Oreos or bag of potato chips (or both) everyday for lunch as a kid and don’t think that was unique among my classmates growing up in the 90s — lunchables everyday would have been healthier!

Anyway, if this is all my kid would eat, it’s not the hill I’d die on.

The chips and Oreos aren’t great, but a PB&J on whole wheat bread is vastly healthier than feeding your child carcinogenic deli meat day in and day out for years.

Deli meat should be at most a very occasional treat. It is best avoided altogether.

It’s crazy to read the posts in this thread and the see you all posting in threads about the rise of colon cancer in young people and being oblivious to the obvious connections between diets heavy in cured meat and processed garbage and young people dying of colon cancer.

I’m 53 years old and ate PB&J daily for years as a kid. Tuna salad a few times a week. Fruit as a side, no garbage chips or cookies. Sometimes school lunch when I was younger, but that was back when schools had kitchens and they cooked actual food that looked very much like the healthy meals cooked at home.

Shoveling processed foods and fizzy sugar laden drinks into your kids daily for decades and then wondering with anxiety, will my kids get colon cancer?

Other things that cause cancer but that a lot of adults seem to be okay with:

Alcohol (it's just straight facts that any amount of alcohol is way more likely to cause cancer than deli meat).
Steak
Not wearing sunscreen
Not getting the HPV shot
Air pollution

I think that it's really important to be responsible parents, but it's impossible to be perfect and sometimes we have to make judgment calls. And being judgmental about what other parents do is not going to make their kids' lives better.

Cool story Jan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ate a PB&J and pack of Oreos or bag of potato chips (or both) everyday for lunch as a kid and don’t think that was unique among my classmates growing up in the 90s — lunchables everyday would have been healthier!

Anyway, if this is all my kid would eat, it’s not the hill I’d die on.

The chips and Oreos aren’t great, but a PB&J on whole wheat bread is vastly healthier than feeding your child carcinogenic deli meat day in and day out for years.

Deli meat should be at most a very occasional treat. It is best avoided altogether.

It’s crazy to read the posts in this thread and the see you all posting in threads about the rise of colon cancer in young people and being oblivious to the obvious connections between diets heavy in cured meat and processed garbage and young people dying of colon cancer.

I’m 53 years old and ate PB&J daily for years as a kid. Tuna salad a few times a week. Fruit as a side, no garbage chips or cookies. Sometimes school lunch when I was younger, but that was back when schools had kitchens and they cooked actual food that looked very much like the healthy meals cooked at home.

Shoveling processed foods and fizzy sugar laden drinks into your kids daily for decades and then wondering with anxiety, will my kids get colon cancer?

Other things that cause cancer but that a lot of adults seem to be okay with:

Alcohol (it's just straight facts that any amount of alcohol is way more likely to cause cancer than deli meat).
Steak
Not wearing sunscreen
Not getting the HPV shot
Air pollution

I think that it's really important to be responsible parents, but it's impossible to be perfect and sometimes we have to make judgment calls. And being judgmental about what other parents do is not going to make their kids' lives better.

Cool story Jan

You must be a highly educated DCUM poster. Impressive comment.

[Anonymous]

I get the generic Armour ones as an after school snack when we’re going right to an activity. DC doesn’t eat the meat, so it’s just cheese and crackers and a mini candy. I’ve tried both brands and Armour more like actual food than Lunchables brand. The Lunchable crackers taste like sweet animal crackers that dissolve into glue in your mouth, the cheese seems closest to American style processed slices, and the meat is super slimy and rubbery. Armour surprisingly seems slightly better, though I usually still save the meat for the dog.

I did suggest getting a bento box and making our own lunchables, but that was firmly rejected and isn’t a hill I’m going to die on.

[Anonymous]

I REALLY NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH "peas, blueberries, popcorn, etc."[u]!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I REALLY NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH "peas, blueberries, popcorn, etc."!!

What lunchable has those items?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year around this time, I had mysterious knee and ankle swelling that made it nearly impossible to walk, bend, get around.

Thank you, Lunchables, for helping make it easy to pack lunches during this weird time. Thank you, school lunch, for being an option. Thank you, Stouffer’s lasagna. Thank you, Eggo waffles. Thank you, Go-Gurts. Thank you, Chinese delivery. Thank you to the gourmet food delivery service that I very occasionally splurged on. Thank you, DH, for stepping up and doing way more than your fair share. Thank you, flexible employer. Thank you, neighbors and friends who helped me out and didn’t judge the contents of my kids’ lunch boxes.

What did the swelling turn out to be? Inflammation?

Still no diagnosis, just tons of physical therapy. I was sent from specialist to specialist. “Best guess” was a weird COVID symptom that lingered.

[Anonymous]

Ignorance, laziness. They are probably from a lower class upbringing and somehow made it big. Anyone educated about nutrition understands that is akin to feeding your child poison. Probably healthier to send dog kibble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ignorance, laziness. They are probably from a lower class upbringing and somehow made it big. Anyone educated about nutrition understands that is akin to feeding your child poison. Probably healthier to send dog kibble.

Yes, they're clearly trying to kill their children. Again you are obviously the better parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a very wealthy family (private school, $3m home) with a nanny for their three school-aged kids.

My older sister did similar with her kids. They're now in their 20s and the main foods they eat are still chicken tenders, mac & cheese, and hamburgers. It is so sad. I've taken them out for dozens of good dinners with my kids (their cousins) and they turn their nose up at EVERYTHING half-decent. It's so sad and embarrassing. They are grown a** adults who eat like babies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ignorance, laziness. They are probably from a lower class upbringing and somehow made it big. Anyone educated about nutrition understands that is akin to feeding your child poison. Probably healthier to send dog kibble.

Plenty of wealthy educated parents know full well how bad something is and still allow it just to shut the kids up. Be it junk food (nutrition), be it cell phone with no restrictions (porn, addiction), be it TV and video game systems in room (bad content, addiction).