MS Lunch

[Anonymous]

I'm in the minority here but think it's fine. If she's noise sensitive and rushed for time during lunch, she's not going to enjoy gulping down a meal. As long as the rest of her meals are healthy she'll be fine.

If you're looking for other protein bars, maybe have her try Quest? I eat one once in a while and like them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Cliff bars are candy. Unless your child is an athlete, I would avoid it. It has more sugar than a Snickers bar. It has 22 grams of sugar and recommended daily dose for women per day is 25. Is there something healthier that she will eat?


Thats right. Welcome to he world of type 2 diabetes.

She's not going to get Type 2 diabetes from having a Clif bar every day. WTF. Are people really counting calories and grams of each and every thing that's in their teenagers' food? I'm surprised no one commented that apples have too much sugar and you should just offer kale and raw almonds.

Clif bars are gross, so you could probably find a tastier bar that she likes better, but she could be eating a worse lunch.

She might, she really might get it. Plus you have to take into account that majority of people don't have just one "candy bar" per day. Sugar is in salad dressing, pasta sauce, etc, but most likely that is not the only item with sugar this kid will eat in a day. Cereal anybody? Canned tomato soup has more sugar than Krispy Kreme doughnut. If she drinks juice you are adding a ton of sugar as well, etc. Diabetes 2 aside, sugar promotes the growth of fat cells around our organs and it is a strong pro inflammatory agent. Simply put, sugar causes fat, more than animal fat does. Sugar causes cholesterol more than animal fat does. Now, if she exercised 3 hours per day, and didn't have predisposition to cholesterol and diabetes, she would be ok, probably. Just because some kids are skinny doesn't mean they don't have cholesterol or early stages of diabetes. Why do you think there are no percentages on labels for sugar? Because sugar/food lobby fought it and won. How would you feel if instead of 22gr, it said 90% of recommended daily sugar intake on that bar?

[Anonymous]

I agree it is fine. More important that she eats something. We moved to Quest bars which were the lowest sugar/highest protein bars that I could find.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it terrible of my to allow my child to eat only a cliff bar and apple for lunch at school. I have spent a ton of time and effort into thinking through creative and healthy lunches, but she never eats them. She says there is no time and/or she is not hungry. She is noise sensitive and a slow eater, so I can see how cafeteria lunch would be tough. The only thing she consistently eats is a cliff bar... Which seems to have protein and some nutrients. She also snacks when she gets home. However. I am feeling a bit guilty.

Additionally. She does not want hot lunch because the line is long and she does not like the food.

You can thank Michelle Obama for that. My kids hated school lunches when she convinced USDA to serve food nobody wanted.

OP here - actually she hated them before Michelle Obama in K... the DCPS food has always been terrible, all packaged, etc. She liked it when more fruit and veggies were added in 2nd grade as that is all she would eat. Also, even with Obama, schools can do better to serve healthy and tasty foods. I think its the food lobbies that make things so crappy, in addition to the low quality and over priced vendors that make terrible food. DD has no problem eating health food at home.

Sadly DD does not like nuts nor any of the healthier bars. I am working on going back to the fruit and veggie lunch, but with ADHD she really needs a protein as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Cliff bars are candy. Unless your child is an athlete, I would avoid it. It has more sugar than a Snickers bar. It has 22 grams of sugar and recommended daily dose for women per day is 25. Is there something healthier that she will eat?


Thats right. Welcome to he world of type 2 diabetes.

She's not going to get Type 2 diabetes from having a Clif bar every day. WTF. Are people really counting calories and grams of each and every thing that's in their teenagers' food? I'm surprised no one commented that apples have too much sugar and you should just offer kale and raw almonds.

Clif bars are gross, so you could probably find a tastier bar that she likes better, but she could be eating a worse lunch.

You might want to rethink that statement, OP.
There are plenty of people with a slight genetic predisposition to diabetes who would develop the disease with so much straight-up sugar every day.This is why this country is FULL of diabetics - how do you think they got that way? It's a scourge.

This x 1000

[Anonymous]

In ES, huge elaborate lunches were the in thing among my DD's friends. Now, they are all minimalists. I feared an eating disorder peer thing, but the teacher says they want to eat for 5 min and then run around like crazy because they are just 11 but no longer have a formal recess.