Teacher criticized my kid's lunch

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Who said I am making the meals? Our nanny is an excellent cook. I do pick the ingredients.

You stir the pot, too!

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Who said I am making the meals? Our nanny is an excellent cook. I do pick the ingredients.

You stir the pot, too!

LOL

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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.

Try again. It is not 1970, people don't use brown paper bags or make PB and J on wonder bread. Like most Americans, I put my kids peanut butter sandwich (made on organic whole wheat bread with no sugar added peanut butter) in a BPA free plastic container and then in his $20 monogrammed Land's End lunch bag.

So you took out two piece of bread, opened a can of peanut butter, slopped it on the bread and put it in a container. Glad to see you take 1 minute out of your day to feed your child.

I could spend hours making a soufflé she could eat, and it would be less healthy. The amount of time spent on making the meal is not related to the nutritional content of the meal. If it were, then carrot sticks / celery sticks / hummus would be a very unhealthy meal, and it isn't. Your soba/stir-fry isn't impressive. The noodles are just nonnutritive carbs, and the stir-fry probably is packed with sodium and chemicals (unless, of course, your chicken is organic). My natural peanut butter on whole grain bread is no worse. And my nowhere-near-obese kid will actually EAT the PB sandwich.
But keep talkin' Gwyneth.

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http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ PB and J!

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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.

You have to cook the rice for sushi, you get the point. PB and J is just not trying at all.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "trying". If you mean "trying to win the best / most superior Mommy award", then, yes, it's not trying at all. If you mean "trying to get some nutrition into a kid who has no time to eat at school and generally doesn't like to stop moving to eat", then yes, it is.

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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.

PB&J isn't the cause of our obesity epidemic. You sound unhinged.

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LOL!

My mom "cooked" my lunch. I didn't like PBJ (love it now!) She fried bacon and I ate a cold bacon sandwich. It was my choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Are gogurts considered processed? It's yogurt, just in a tube...

Well, they have ingredients that aren't great: modified corn starch (likely GMO), artificial colors like red #40, carrageenan. Non organic milk used to make the yogurt, so they likely come from cows treated with antibiotics and hormones.

This is a bizarre criticism. Sure, artificial colors are an issue but criticizing "likely GMO" and "likely treated with antibiotics" products is not about nutrition.
I have no problem with your lunch except you should have included a fruit and a vegetable. Sticking some baby carrots and a clementine in there and taking away a sweet or a carb would solve that.

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Anonymous wrote:Are gogurts considered processed? It's yogurt, just in a tube...

Well, they have ingredients that aren't great: modified corn starch (likely GMO), artificial colors like red #40, carrageenan. Non organic milk used to make the yogurt, so they likely come from cows treated with antibiotics and hormones.

This is a bizarre criticism. Sure, artificial colors are an issue but criticizing "likely GMO" and "likely treated with antibiotics" products is not about nutrition.
I have no problem with your lunch except you should have included a fruit and a vegetable. Sticking some baby carrots and a clementine in there and taking away a sweet or a carb would solve that.

Baby carrots are processed.

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Baby carrots are processed.

Good grief. Why don't you just send some potted lettuce and a nutcracker with unshelled pecans?

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Baby carrots are processed.

Good grief. Why don't you just send some potted lettuce and a nutcracker with unshelled pecans?

I think you misunderstand. I keep pointing out that people get so worked up about "processed" foods without realizing what commonly consumed -- and healthy -- foods are processed. I.e., bread, cheese, wine, yogurt, BABY CARROTS. All processed. I don't understand what people's issue is with "processed" foods. It's a stupid pejorative.

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I love this thread! These moms kill me. I have sent my kid to school with McDonald's sandwiches. Why does anyone care what another is eating?

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Guys. GUISE. SRSLY. Anti-PB poster is clearly just fucking with you at this point.

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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.

I make my PB and J's on toast. The toaster is next to the stove, so I'm pretty much in front of the stove when I'm toasting the bread.

Do I get a mommy of the year award?

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Anonymous wrote:Good for the teacher. Feeding kids sugary processed garbage is a form of abuse.