Lunchbox in public

[Anonymous]

Mine has a plain llbean lunch box. It’s fine.

[Anonymous]

Agreed - I have a public school senior boy who still brings a lunch bag.

[Anonymous]

My DD is at a girls’ school like this on the other side of the country. She’s in the youngest grade and they carry lunch bags but I noticed no one else does and it made me worried for the coming years. In one grade, lululemon bags are acceptable. Another grade all has either Trader Joe’s mini totes or Trader Joe’s insulated lunch bags with the skylines in them. Either the same grade or another grade seems to “allow” sterilite compartment containers and they carry them flat and seem to have really elaborate meals and there’s a culture of displaying them. And there is definitely a grade that is stuffing food into the depths of their backpacks because they show no evidence of carrying food.

These are girls ages 10-14 so I don’t know how I’ll handle the Hs years.

[Anonymous]

I would think it was a mixture of kids bringing lunch and sometimes buying lunch. Some kids might bring lunch if they hate Tuesday’s Choices for example.

Every public school in Massachusetts has free lunch and free breakfast for all students not just low income. It’s ok food. Twice a week they have vegetarian dishes, once a week they have pizza from a restaurant, they have alternatives of turkey and cheese sandwich or. Chicken Caesar salad.

Let him bring some food in his backpack and check out the lunch.

[Anonymous]

I’m one of the early posters and didn’t name our school. It’s a large public in VA. I buy plain lunch boxes from Amazon. My HS kids care a lot of brands of clothes and shoes and one cares a lot about her backpack. Neither care about lunch boxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to DC, no one brings a lunch bag/box in high school as it’s ‘not cool’. DC doesn’t actually know anyone in high school

DC is in a small private (8th grade) currently where everyone had to bring lunch as there is no cafetaria. Got a hydro flask lunch box and DC said OK for this year but no way in High School, ‘too embarrassing’.

No.
What do they eat?
Hopefully your child doesn’t have an eating disorder ..

Is this true?

[Anonymous]

No.
What do they eat?
Hopefully your child doesn’t have an eating disorder ..and not starving herself since carrying food in a lunch box isn’t cool

🙄

[Anonymous]

My kid brings the same l.l. bean lunch box he’s had since 6th grade. It’s plain, not remarkable, and large enough for a teen.

At first he thought no one else would bring lunch, but loads of kids do. The lunch line is always very long - also: food not great, nor is it cheaper than something from home.

[Anonymous]

My 12 and 14 year old boys are in 7th and 9th at large FCPS schools and have Nike lunch boxes they bring every day.

[Anonymous]

Tons of kids bring their lunch in HS. We are at a large FCPS school. My boys always had a nondescript plain black LLBean type of lunch box. My daughter has one that is slightly cuter/colorful. Nobody is embarrassed of bringing their lunch to school or thinks it's weird.

[Anonymous]

Most girls use Lululemon bags and or the Trader Joe’s reusable mini totes.

[Anonymous]

9th grader at big public school. Packed lunch everyday and not weird at all. Said school lunch is grossed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No.
What do they eat?
Hopefully your child doesn’t have an eating disorder ..and not starving herself since carrying food in a lunch box isn’t cool

🙄

You don’t seem to have read OP’s original post. There is no eating disorder. Her kid apparently does take a lunch box/bag currently.
Why does every thread on DCUM have someone like this. Maybe the same couple of people.

[Anonymous]

I am the PP. My son carries a lunch tote with a sandwich wrapped in foil on most days. Some days it’s a burrito or wrap.

[Anonymous]

So let him buy lunch. It won't kill him.

And then he'll see people do bring lunch bags.