Someone is stealing DD's lunch

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey OP, I thought of you yesterday when I was volunteering at my kids' school - I had to accompany kids to their classroom who'd forgotten their lunch boxes. One kid pulled out a couple of baggies and a juice from her backpack - either she didn't have a sack/lunchbox or she didn't understand that she was supposed to be buying that those were for aftercare. Is it possible that your child is confused about how to manage the food she's bringing?

Fwiw, the kid I saw yesterday had only fruit in the baggies; no Oreos. Hopefully that passes muster with the food Nazi moms on this thread. Of course when the lunchroom staff realized, they arranged to get her a hot meal, on the presumption that no parent would deliberately send just a few grapes for their kids' lunch. Perhaps they should read this thread.

This is how every school operates. If the lunchroom monitors determine that a child doesn't have enough food, they give her a lunch. This is the law in every public school in the country. Note that the teachers rarely eat with the children so they have no idea who is eating what on any given day.

[Anonymous]

All the talk about PB on this thread made me hungry. I just had a PB sandwich, so I looked at the nutrition info while I ate it. (mmmmm) Anyway, the PB has 200 calories for 2 Tablespoons--that's probably enough for 2-3 sandwiches. Let's assume I used a whole tablespoon: 100 calories. 3g of carbs, 1.5 gms of fiber, 8 grms of fa, and 4 g of protein. The bread (sunflower bread) 140 calories, 3 g of fat, 23 g of carbs, and 8 g of fiber.


Total ingredients in sandwich: Peanuts, whole kernel rye, water, wholemeal rye flower, sunfloer seed, oat fiber, and yeast.


One of you "PB Sandwiches are the wurst" (hee) folks feel free to explain why sending this to school with my kid is a tragedy and failure of parenting.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD just started first grade and has came home for the past few days saying that some snacks in her lunch bag weren't packed, for example fruit snacks and cookies. I'm 100% positive that I've packed them and I even have DH double check her bag before he leaves in the morning. Yesterday afternoon she came home again saying that her snacks were missing and all she had was her PB&J and crackers! I'm horrid! I talked to the principal this morning and she says, oh this has happened before, but I'll talk to her teacher. Has anyone else been in this situation before? What did you do?

fruit snacks, cookies, PB&J, and crackers?

This sounds like a terribly sugar filled unhealthy lunch. I am surprised the school hasn't confiscated your DD's lunch and sent a letter to you.

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/family-meals/slideshow/25-quick-and-easy-school-lunches-to-pack-for-your-kids/?slide=1

Thanks for the laugh PP. Bon Appetit's suggestions are hysterical! Shrimp rolls! homemade sushi! So easy and fast! How about I make my kid a turkey and cheese sandwich, throw in a pouch of unsweetened apple sauce, a banana and call it a day. Have fun with your prepping your kid's pesto shrimp skewers. Bet those smell great after sitting around in the lunch box for a couple of hours...

Here's a fabulous response to the Bon Appetit suggestions:

http://momswhohatepinterest.me/4267528-13093421

These are hilarious!!!!!

I thought the ham and cheese quesadillas looked good (even with the mustard), but the other comments were awesome.

And are we doomed to have that poster who's obsessed with how crappy peanut butter is on every post about lunches? 'Cause I get it, lady, you don't like peanut butter. Given that nuts are a recommended source of healthy fat and protein, I don't really know what your beef is, but whatever, can you just post once on a thread and then stop?

I nearly peed my pants with the line "asparagus pita filled with cheese that smells like a troll's anus". Amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:It is really okay if a kid eats Oreos.

You have an unhealthy attitude towards food PP.

No, it is not OK. Oreos don't just lack nutrition, the amount of sugar they hold is harmful to the body.

Just because you are unable to stop at just one or two cookies doesn't mean that everyone else has the same weakness.

One or two of any treat is not harmful.

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I don't withhold food from my kids and they would not even say that anything is off limits, but it is truly unnecessary to condition your child to eating a sweet after every meal, especially when that meal contains sweets already (fruit roll ups, flavored yogurt, and the like are sweets, not food). They eat sweets sometimes and like them, but would think it was really weird if I started putting cookies in their lunch. Do adults eat cookies with lunch everyday? I am really out of touch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't withhold food from my kids and they would not even say that anything is off limits, but it is truly unnecessary to condition your child to eating a sweet after every meal, especially when that meal contains sweets already (fruit roll ups, flavored yogurt, and the like are sweets, not food). They eat sweets sometimes and like them, but would think it was really weird if I started putting cookies in their lunch. Do adults eat cookies with lunch everyday? I am really out of touch.

I eat a cookie after lunch almost daily and pack 2 for my daughter. They are fig newtons. I crave my sweets mid day and I also feel that it can be worked off easier than after dinner.

Fwiw I am not overweight nor is my daughter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't withhold food from my kids and they would not even say that anything is off limits, but it is truly unnecessary to condition your child to eating a sweet after every meal, especially when that meal contains sweets already (fruit roll ups, flavored yogurt, and the like are sweets, not food). They eat sweets sometimes and like them, but would think it was really weird if I started putting cookies in their lunch. Do adults eat cookies with lunch everyday? I am really out of touch.

I put cookies in my kids lunches whenever they ask for them.

Sometimes they eat them, sometimes they don't, just like every other item in their lunchbox.

Since the cookies are not forbidden fruit or something that mom flips out over, they have learned to moderate themselves and their food choices. It is a better way to live than to flip out over a single oreo or some fruit chews.

[Anonymous]

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Just because you are unable to stop at just one or two cookies doesn't mean that everyone else has the same weakness.

One or two of any treat is not harmful.

not if you it them multiple times a day. 2 cookies have 30g of sugar. That's over daily recommendation.

Posters who write that asparagus is funny should be ashamed of their ignorance. European kids eat adult food and don't have special "kid diet" consisted of bread and pasta and chicken nuggets. They also have better figures and are healthy

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Anonymous wrote:I don't withhold food from my kids and they would not even say that anything is off limits, but it is truly unnecessary to condition your child to eating a sweet after every meal, especially when that meal contains sweets already (fruit roll ups, flavored yogurt, and the like are sweets, not food). They eat sweets sometimes and like them, but would think it was really weird if I started putting cookies in their lunch. Do adults eat cookies with lunch everyday? I am really out of touch.

I put cookies in my kids lunches whenever they ask for them.

Sometimes they eat them, sometimes they don't, just like every other item in their lunchbox.

Since the cookies are not forbidden fruit or something that mom flips out over, they have learned to moderate themselves and their food choices. It is a better way to live than to flip out over a single oreo or some fruit chews.

I don't flip out. I just don't pack desserts. I did not even know that eating dessert at lunch was a thing a lot of people did.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't withhold food from my kids and they would not even say that anything is off limits, but it is truly unnecessary to condition your child to eating a sweet after every meal, especially when that meal contains sweets already (fruit roll ups, flavored yogurt, and the like are sweets, not food). They eat sweets sometimes and like them, but would think it was really weird if I started putting cookies in their lunch. Do adults eat cookies with lunch everyday? I am really out of touch.

I eat a cookie after lunch almost daily and pack 2 for my daughter. They are fig newtons. I crave my sweets mid day and I also feel that it can be worked off easier than after dinner.

Fwiw I am not overweight nor is my daughter.

You would stop craving sweets every day if you stopped eating them so often. Just saying.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't withhold food from my kids and they would not even say that anything is off limits, but it is truly unnecessary to condition your child to eating a sweet after every meal, especially when that meal contains sweets already (fruit roll ups, flavored yogurt, and the like are sweets, not food). They eat sweets sometimes and like them, but would think it was really weird if I started putting cookies in their lunch. Do adults eat cookies with lunch everyday? I am really out of touch.

I eat a cookie after lunch almost daily and pack 2 for my daughter. They are fig newtons. I crave my sweets mid day and I also feel that it can be worked off easier than after dinner.

Fwiw I am not overweight nor is my daughter.

You would stop craving sweets every day if you stopped eating them so often. Just saying.

NP. Would you stop commenting on other people's food choices if you pulled the stick out of your ass? Just saying.

[Anonymous]

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Just because you are unable to stop at just one or two cookies doesn't mean that everyone else has the same weakness.

One or two of any treat is not harmful.

not if you it them multiple times a day. 2 cookies have 30g of sugar. That's over daily recommendation.

Posters who write that asparagus is funny should be ashamed of their ignorance. European kids eat adult food and don't have special "kid diet" consisted of bread and pasta and chicken nuggets. They also have better figures and are healthy

No one said they are feeding their kids a cookie filled lunch multiple times/day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't withhold food from my kids and they would not even say that anything is off limits, but it is truly unnecessary to condition your child to eating a sweet after every meal, especially when that meal contains sweets already (fruit roll ups, flavored yogurt, and the like are sweets, not food). They eat sweets sometimes and like them, but would think it was really weird if I started putting cookies in their lunch. Do adults eat cookies with lunch everyday? I am really out of touch.

I put cookies in my kids lunches whenever they ask for them.

Sometimes they eat them, sometimes they don't, just like every other item in their lunchbox.

Since the cookies are not forbidden fruit or something that mom flips out over, they have learned to moderate themselves and their food choices. It is a better way to live than to flip out over a single oreo or some fruit chews.

You're American so I don't blame you, but the amount of sugar your kid is consuming and the average American consumes is NOT moderate. It's excessive.

A meal that includes PBJ + oreos + fruit roll up + juice is an insane amount of sugar. 1 out of the 4 is okay, not everything, and certainly not all 4 in every meal.

Your kid is fine now - but you're certainly conditioning your child to be an overweight adult.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't withhold food from my kids and they would not even say that anything is off limits, but it is truly unnecessary to condition your child to eating a sweet after every meal, especially when that meal contains sweets already (fruit roll ups, flavored yogurt, and the like are sweets, not food). They eat sweets sometimes and like them, but would think it was really weird if I started putting cookies in their lunch. Do adults eat cookies with lunch everyday? I am really out of touch.

I put cookies in my kids lunches whenever they ask for them.

Sometimes they eat them, sometimes they don't, just like every other item in their lunchbox.

Since the cookies are not forbidden fruit or something that mom flips out over, they have learned to moderate themselves and their food choices. It is a better way to live than to flip out over a single oreo or some fruit chews.

I don't flip out. I just don't pack desserts. I did not even know that eating dessert at lunch was a thing a lot of people did.

I also don't pack dessert for lunch. DS mentioned it once or twice last year (K). He didn't seem upset. It was just an observation. He noted that some kids get cookies or doritos.
I just told him that is what some parents pack but not me. I don't ban sweets and DS will have a small desert most nights his finishes his dinner but I don't see the need to bring them to school.
The sweetest thing he gets is fruit leather or regular fruit and he seems fine. That said, so does his friend who get doritos in his lunch.

Different strokes for different folks.

Now who is stealing the lunch?

At DS's school cubbies are in the hallway. Last year his cubby was on the main school hallway and they were told to keep their lunch bags on top of the cubby rather than inside their backpacks.
I never heard of any food going missing so I am totally intrigued by this mystery.

[Anonymous]

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Just because you are unable to stop at just one or two cookies doesn't mean that everyone else has the same weakness.

One or two of any treat is not harmful.

not if you it them multiple times a day. 2 cookies have 30g of sugar. That's over daily recommendation.

Posters who write that asparagus is funny should be ashamed of their ignorance. European kids eat adult food and don't have special "kid diet" consisted of bread and pasta and chicken nuggets. They also have better figures and are healthy

No one said they are feeding their kids a cookie filled lunch multiple times/day.

No one said it, but most people eat "treats" multiple times a day:
cookie = treat
juice = treat
fruit snacks = treat
candy = treat
desserts = treat
muffin = treat
sugary ceral = treat
soda = treat

Americans eat treats all day in between processed food or junk food and wonder why they're fat.