Does your middle school buy multiple school lunches each day?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here we go. OP asked a specific question. Pretty sure she and her daughter, over the many years of education they’ve managed together, have realized that bringing lunch to school is an option.

Yes, my kid does this and I work at a school and see the lunch portions. They are very small.

Through the many years of education we’ve managed together, we’ve learned that taking lunch to school is an option. Kid does not select this option, while my other kid does.

So why wouldn’t you bring a lunch? Especially if school portions aren’t enough food?

NP, but based on my kids I’m guessing that the kid doesn’t leave enough time in the morning to make their lunch and doesn’t want to do it the night before. My kids don’t particularly love school lunch but they like making a lunch even less, and I’m not packing a lunch for a 12 year old so it’s on them to do it.

You’d rather they are the crap school lunch than make them a lunch because they’re 12?
My kid is 11 and I make her lunch. I’m making mine for work anyway so no extra work to make hers. A lot of this time I make it at the same time as dinner the night before

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My kid would totally do this to get a double portion of the one thing that he liked from the lunch while throwing the rest of it away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go. OP asked a specific question. Pretty sure she and her daughter, over the many years of education they’ve managed together, have realized that bringing lunch to school is an option.

Yes, my kid does this and I work at a school and see the lunch portions. They are very small.

Through the many years of education we’ve managed together, we’ve learned that taking lunch to school is an option. Kid does not select this option, while my other kid does.

So why wouldn’t you bring a lunch? Especially if school portions aren’t enough food?

NP, but based on my kids I’m guessing that the kid doesn’t leave enough time in the morning to make their lunch and doesn’t want to do it the night before. My kids don’t particularly love school lunch but they like making a lunch even less, and I’m not packing a lunch for a 12 year old so it’s on them to do it.

You’d rather they are the crap school lunch than make them a lunch because they’re 12?
My kid is 11 and I make her lunch. I’m making mine for work anyway so no extra work to make hers. A lot of this time I make it at the same time as dinner the night before

Yes, they are 12, an age where they need to learn to do low stakes things for themselves. No one is starving, they don’t like the school lunch they are welcome to make one and bring it.

[Anonymous]

She is probably only eating the parts that she likes ie rolls and therefore wants more of that one thing. It’s still probably pretty cheap, but if it bothers you send her with a sandwich to supplement the food there.

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No, but the school lunches are crap so I send it now.

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My kids did. The portions were very small, and if it was something they liked, they'd eat more.

If it was a lunch they didn't like, they'd eat one and then, like PP's kids, come home after school and hoover up everything in sight.

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My super skinny but rapidly growing middle school son will eat two lunches if he buys lunch at school. He only buys a school lunch about once a month (when packing for some reason doesn’t work or he forgets his lunch).

He says that he eats it all, and I believe him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go. OP asked a specific question. Pretty sure she and her daughter, over the many years of education they’ve managed together, have realized that bringing lunch to school is an option.

Yes, my kid does this and I work at a school and see the lunch portions. They are very small.

Through the many years of education we’ve managed together, we’ve learned that taking lunch to school is an option. Kid does not select this option, while my other kid does.

So why wouldn’t you bring a lunch? Especially if school portions aren’t enough food?

NP, but based on my kids I’m guessing that the kid doesn’t leave enough time in the morning to make their lunch and doesn’t want to do it the night before. My kids don’t particularly love school lunch but they like making a lunch even less, and I’m not packing a lunch for a 12 year old so it’s on them to do it.

Why? It’s your job as a parent to feed them. If you would rather school feed them slop when you can afford better but don’t feel like it, that is laziness

[Anonymous]

Yes many kids do double orders at DC's school (W feeder).

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Yes my son will get a double entree on some days.

[Anonymous]

Hi DS is 13 and often gets two lunches at school bc one is not enough.
Also it’s no one else’s business if we do school lunch vs home lunch. I work full time and packing a lunch was a big stress for me. Please don’t judge others who make different choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid would totally do this to get a double portion of the one thing that he liked from the lunch while throwing the rest of it away.

Exactly was I was thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go. OP asked a specific question. Pretty sure she and her daughter, over the many years of education they’ve managed together, have realized that bringing lunch to school is an option.

Yes, my kid does this and I work at a school and see the lunch portions. They are very small.

Through the many years of education we’ve managed together, we’ve learned that taking lunch to school is an option. Kid does not select this option, while my other kid does.

So why wouldn’t you bring a lunch? Especially if school portions aren’t enough food?

NP, but based on my kids I’m guessing that the kid doesn’t leave enough time in the morning to make their lunch and doesn’t want to do it the night before. My kids don’t particularly love school lunch but they like making a lunch even less, and I’m not packing a lunch for a 12 year old so it’s on them to do it.

Why? It’s your job as a parent to feed them. If you would rather school feed them slop when you can afford better but don’t feel like it, that is laziness

There is ample food available in the house for them to make their lunches. They aren’t 6, they’re 12, this is something they can handle, or buy lunch at school, their choice. My job as a parent when they are about to start HS is to teach them some level of responsibility for themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go. OP asked a specific question. Pretty sure she and her daughter, over the many years of education they’ve managed together, have realized that bringing lunch to school is an option.

Yes, my kid does this and I work at a school and see the lunch portions. They are very small.

Through the many years of education we’ve managed together, we’ve learned that taking lunch to school is an option. Kid does not select this option, while my other kid does.

So why wouldn’t you bring a lunch? Especially if school portions aren’t enough food?

NP, but based on my kids I’m guessing that the kid doesn’t leave enough time in the morning to make their lunch and doesn’t want to do it the night before. My kids don’t particularly love school lunch but they like making a lunch even less, and I’m not packing a lunch for a 12 year old so it’s on them to do it.

Why? It’s your job as a parent to feed them. If you would rather school feed them slop when you can afford better but don’t feel like it, that is laziness

Disagree. We have the same rules at our house for our 12yo and 14yo- pack your own lunch or eat the blah school food. Their choice. It is our job to make food available (and we always have a nice variety to choose from )- it is their choice to take 5min to pack it or not. 14yo usually packs hers, 12yo sometimes does, sometimes eats school food. I’m not going to pack lunches at this age. If other parents choose to do so- hey, great.

[Anonymous]

Not a big deal Op. And apparently, kids do it.