I hate packing, shopping, and cleaning up my child's lunch

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can't afford 3 dollars a day?

New poster - I can afford $3 a day, but I refuse to pay that much for the processed, heavy fat and carb junk they serve at my daughter's MCPS.

Packing lunch is annoying for me too but what I have done to make it easier is to separate snacks into baggies for the week. I include a whole fruit like banana, apple or grapes, a few baby carrots etc. which is easy to throw in.
I purchase the small milk cartons from costco. the only thing I have to do in the morning or night before is make a sandwich or pack leftovers.

Rarely any messes since everything is packaged. This year, my kid will help with this task.

once in a blue moon I let her buy lunch in the cafeteria when something that is borderline healthy ends up on the menu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make him unpack it and eat it for dinner.

You have a good point. Thank you for being the only person so far to post something reasonable instead of attacking me! I actually do something like that already. He always comes home hungry since he won't eat his lunch, so I tell him he needs to eat what he didn't have at lunch or wait until dinner. Sometimes he eats some of it, other times it's in the trash. I usually send in yogurt & fruit or a vegetable and some type of protein like chicken, turkey, cheese or peanut butter, and a small snack like a 0.5 ounce of chips or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't afford 3 dollars a day?

New poster - I can afford $3 a day, but I refuse to pay that much for the processed, heavy fat and carb junk they serve at my daughter's MCPS.

Packing lunch is annoying for me too but what I have done to make it easier is to separate snacks into baggies for the week. I include a whole fruit like banana, apple or grapes, a few baby carrots etc. which is easy to throw in.
I purchase the small milk cartons from costco. the only thing I have to do in the morning or night before is make a sandwich or pack leftovers.

Rarely any messes since everything is packaged. This year, my kid will help with this task.

once in a blue moon I let her buy lunch in the cafeteria when something that is borderline healthy ends up on the menu.

Another reasonable poster, thank you! I do similar to you, but I just hate the waste. I hate the begging to buy the school lunch because his friends do. I let him get it like once a week at the most, but that's it.

[Anonymous]

No. I have never filled out a FARMs request form because I know I wouldn't qualify for it no matter how much I might want someone else to pay for necessities for my family. I pack my child's lunch daily. I also pack my husband's lunch. One of the 4,000 things that I do for my family that maybe aren't my favorite thing to do, but are nonetheless important and worth doing.

[Anonymous]

He needs to make his own lunch. If you don't like the prep work, stop buying lunches that require it, or teach him to do it. Don't like the lunch dishes, teach him to do it! Surely an 8 year old can handle making a sandwhich before bed, and putting it along with some fruit, yogurt, cheese stick, etc. in his lunch bag. You're tired of doing it because your kid is old enough to do it himself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This can't be a real post.

Oh shut up. It's totally real. I can't be the only one feeling this way. Just not a "popular" point of view perhaps. But I know I'm not alone. Has anyone filled out the form and had it rejected?

If you don't meet their income requirements, why do you think you would get approved?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you think it's okay for your kid to take something that is meant for families with bigger needs than you have and then not even EAT IT but throw it away? All because you don't want to spend your own money on the lunch even though you can afford it, and you don't want to pack the kid's lunch yourself? Sheesh, I thought I'd heard everything.

Lol, ME taking from someone else? Please explain.

What's to explain? You want your kid to get a free lunch even though it's not meant for your kid because you can afford it. It's meant for other kids, the ones who really can't afford to buy lunch.

Troll.

I fucking hate people like you. You are so uninformed, but yet you look down on everyone else and have this feeling of inferiority about yourself. Go to hell.

[Anonymous]

Huh? WTF are you talking about? You make no sense, OP. Why don't you go to hell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Anyone ever fill out that form they mail out and have it get rejected? I obviously will fill it out with honest answers, but I know we don't meet the income requirements they list on the form.

This is so odd. You know that you don't meet the income requirements but you are still going to fill out the form? Are you just hoping that they don't actually read the form and it will get approval anyways?

[Anonymous]

Get him luncheables - Aren't they like $1 each? Include a water bottle and you are good to go. Cheaper than $3, just as disgusting as the school lunch, but your kid will probably eat it. Let him buy lunch a couple times a month. Or better yet - if he eats his lunch every day - he can buy lunches on friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This can't be a real post.

Oh shut up. It's totally real. I can't be the only one feeling this way. Just not a "popular" point of view perhaps. But I know I'm not alone. Has anyone filled out the form and had it rejected?

If you don't meet their income requirements, why do you think you would get approved?

I don't think I would, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't. At my child's first school (title one) they begged EVERYONE to fill it out and sent the form home like once a week for the first two months of school and said "even if you don't think you're eligible, they may work something out for you". But we are not at that school anymore, and when we were, I never tried filling the form out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Anyone ever fill out that form they mail out and have it get rejected? I obviously will fill it out with honest answers, but I know we don't meet the income requirements they list on the form.

This is so odd. You know that you don't meet the income requirements but you are still going to fill out the form? Are you just hoping that they don't actually read the form and it will get approval anyways?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

I don't get it. You want a free lunch, even though you don't qualify? I can't figure out what you're complaining about. It sounds like you don't want to pack lunch or pay for a school lunch. And your kid doesn't eat your lunch anyway? And you think the free lunches go uneaten as well? Why not skip lunch altogether?

If he wants a school lunch AND you can afford it AND you hate packing a lunch, I can't for the life of me understand why you don't let him buy lunch. Or make him pack it himself since this is a third grader.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Anyone ever fill out that form they mail out and have it get rejected? I obviously will fill it out with honest answers, but I know we don't meet the income requirements they list on the form.

This is so odd. You know that you don't meet the income requirements but you are still going to fill out the form? Are you just hoping that they don't actually read the form and it will get approval anyways?

Yes.

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get him luncheables - Aren't they like $1 each? Include a water bottle and you are good to go. Cheaper than $3, just as disgusting as the school lunch, but your kid will probably eat it. Let him buy lunch a couple times a month. Or better yet - if he eats his lunch every day - he can buy lunches on friday.

Lunchables are not a dollar. They are just about the same as school lunch and way more disgusting.