What makes a family give lunchables for lunch every day?

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

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Anonymous wrote:In OP’s mind, Lunchables are for a certain class of people. OP is perturbed because the Lunchable parents aren’t acting how she expects them to act based on their socioeconomic status. Bless her heart, she probably aspires to their status and here they are spoiling it with Lunchables.

What's funny about this is the fact that Lunchables are expensive. So are Uncrustables. (I'm not against either one; my kid loves Uncrustables, so do I)

Humans have hit an all time high laziness. BP&J is the world’s easiest sandwich to make. But no. Let’s buy overpriced frozen ones in a box- I’m just too busy on DCUM for sandwich making

I have no doubt an Uncrustable is 100x more tasty than the PB&J I make with no-sugar whole grain bread, no-sugar almond butter and low-sugar jelly. Luckily the only version my kids know is my version so they are used to it.

We send to private school so we control when they can buy lunch, and leftovers are brought back in the lunchbox, not thrown out.

Unclench, PP.

I do give my kid Uncrustables as an option (it's not the only thing my child eats of course, and the majority of meals are homemade). My kid will be just fine.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

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Anonymous wrote:In OP’s mind, Lunchables are for a certain class of people. OP is perturbed because the Lunchable parents aren’t acting how she expects them to act based on their socioeconomic status. Bless her heart, she probably aspires to their status and here they are spoiling it with Lunchables.

What's funny about this is the fact that Lunchables are expensive. So are Uncrustables. (I'm not against either one; my kid loves Uncrustables, so do I)

Humans have hit an all time high laziness. BP&J is the world’s easiest sandwich to make. But no. Let’s buy overpriced frozen ones in a box- I’m just too busy on DCUM for sandwich making

Spoken like someone who has never had an uncrustable! They're tasty.

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Anonymous wrote:In OP’s mind, Lunchables are for a certain class of people. OP is perturbed because the Lunchable parents aren’t acting how she expects them to act based on their socioeconomic status. Bless her heart, she probably aspires to their status and here they are spoiling it with Lunchables.

What's funny about this is the fact that Lunchables are expensive. So are Uncrustables. (I'm not against either one; my kid loves Uncrustables, so do I)

Humans have hit an all time high laziness. BP&J is the world’s easiest sandwich to make. But no. Let’s buy overpriced frozen ones in a box- I’m just too busy on DCUM for sandwich making

Spoken like someone who has never had an uncrustable! They're tasty.

Yes they are engineered to be so, with a bunch of crap ingredients.

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Anonymous wrote:In OP’s mind, Lunchables are for a certain class of people. OP is perturbed because the Lunchable parents aren’t acting how she expects them to act based on their socioeconomic status. Bless her heart, she probably aspires to their status and here they are spoiling it with Lunchables.

What's funny about this is the fact that Lunchables are expensive. So are Uncrustables. (I'm not against either one; my kid loves Uncrustables, so do I)

Humans have hit an all time high laziness. BP&J is the world’s easiest sandwich to make. But no. Let’s buy overpriced frozen ones in a box- I’m just too busy on DCUM for sandwich making

And then the excuse is that their kid eats the Uncrustables and won't eat regular PBJ. Ok, well that's on you for buying and continuing to buy Uncrustables.

+2

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Anonymous wrote:IDGAF if someone packs Cheetos and a 20oz coke every day for their kid.

How does this affect you OP? Get a life.

It very much affects us all. There is an epidemic of type 2 diabetes, etc that is bankrupting our country and causing tremendous suffering - all because companies want to profit by poisoning us with lab designed processed “food” like lunchables.

This is such a tired trope. Instead of using shame of the individual (proven to have zero effectiveness in changing behavior) why don't you lobby to get real change at a regulation level? Food companies do not care about our health because they like profits. They have to be forced to take out harmful ingredients and balance sodium. Lobby your leaders. Shaming the consumer will do absolutely nothing.

Why should food companies care more about your health (or yours kids’) than you? People need to take responsibility for what they are choosing to eat

Totally agree. We should also get rid of warning labels on cigarettes and alcohol. Let's just completely do away with the FDA.

Maybe the government should regulate bad food AND people who know better can stop being lazy and try to care for their kids? It’s not like the nutrition content and analysis isn’t easily accessible, especially for the DCUM crowd.

The government is pushing bad food on kids. Every seen the typical public school lunch? It’s basically mass produced crap from Walmart, except off brand. Off brand uncrustables. No name muffins made of oil. They do offer brand name junk cereal and brand name Dannon sugar yogurt though.

Is the government also forcing “educated” UMC parents to purchase those same things for their kids? Because there are a lot of supporters of those foods on this thread.

+1 Amazing!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In OP’s mind, Lunchables are for a certain class of people. OP is perturbed because the Lunchable parents aren’t acting how she expects them to act based on their socioeconomic status. Bless her heart, she probably aspires to their status and here they are spoiling it with Lunchables.

What's funny about this is the fact that Lunchables are expensive. So are Uncrustables. (I'm not against either one; my kid loves Uncrustables, so do I)

Humans have hit an all time high laziness. BP&J is the world’s easiest sandwich to make. But no. Let’s buy overpriced frozen ones in a box- I’m just too busy on DCUM for sandwich making

Spoken like someone who has never had an uncrustable! They're tasty.

Yes they are engineered to be so, with a bunch of crap ingredients.

It's peanut butter and jam

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In OP’s mind, Lunchables are for a certain class of people. OP is perturbed because the Lunchable parents aren’t acting how she expects them to act based on their socioeconomic status. Bless her heart, she probably aspires to their status and here they are spoiling it with Lunchables.

What's funny about this is the fact that Lunchables are expensive. So are Uncrustables. (I'm not against either one; my kid loves Uncrustables, so do I)

Humans have hit an all time high laziness. BP&J is the world’s easiest sandwich to make. But no. Let’s buy overpriced frozen ones in a box- I’m just too busy on DCUM for sandwich making

Spoken like someone who has never had an uncrustable! They're tasty.

Yes they are engineered to be so, with a bunch of crap ingredients.

It's peanut butter and jam

Bread: Enriched Unbleached Flour (wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Unbleached Whole Wheat Flour, Sugar, Yeast, Soybean Oil, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Salt, Dough Conditioner (enzymes, Ascorbic Acid, Calcium Peroxide, Contains One Or More Of The Following: Mono And Diglycerides, Datem, Salt). Peanut Butter: Peanuts, Sugar, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Molasses, Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (rapeseed And Soybean), Mono And Diglycerides, Salt. Grape Jelly: Sugar, Grape Juice, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Pectin, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate (preservative).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

Poor folks got by - and get by - with fresh vegetables grown with both fertilizer and pesticides, because that is the path to low cost food.

Only rich folks can afford the premium prices for official organic.

[Anonymous]

Np here. I didn’t grow up in this country and now I am super curious about lunchables. Asking DH to get one for me try!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In OP’s mind, Lunchables are for a certain class of people. OP is perturbed because the Lunchable parents aren’t acting how she expects them to act based on their socioeconomic status. Bless her heart, she probably aspires to their status and here they are spoiling it with Lunchables.

What's funny about this is the fact that Lunchables are expensive. So are Uncrustables. (I'm not against either one; my kid loves Uncrustables, so do I)

Humans have hit an all time high laziness. BP&J is the world’s easiest sandwich to make. But no. Let’s buy overpriced frozen ones in a box- I’m just too busy on DCUM for sandwich making

I have no doubt an Uncrustable is 100x more tasty than the PB&J I make with no-sugar whole grain bread, no-sugar almond butter and low-sugar jelly. Luckily the only version my kids know is my version so they are used to it.

We send to private school so we control when they can buy lunch, and leftovers are brought back in the lunchbox, not thrown out.

Curious which brands/products of bread, pb, and jelly you use at home. Would be interested in some healthier options.

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The amount of energy people spend policing other children's food is bizarre.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In OP’s mind, Lunchables are for a certain class of people. OP is perturbed because the Lunchable parents aren’t acting how she expects them to act based on their socioeconomic status. Bless her heart, she probably aspires to their status and here they are spoiling it with Lunchables.

What's funny about this is the fact that Lunchables are expensive. So are Uncrustables. (I'm not against either one; my kid loves Uncrustables, so do I)

Humans have hit an all time high laziness. BP&J is the world’s easiest sandwich to make. But no. Let’s buy overpriced frozen ones in a box- I’m just too busy on DCUM for sandwich making

I have no doubt an Uncrustable is 100x more tasty than the PB&J I make with no-sugar whole grain bread, no-sugar almond butter and low-sugar jelly. Luckily the only version my kids know is my version so they are used to it.

We send to private school so we control when they can buy lunch, and leftovers are brought back in the lunchbox, not thrown out.

Curious which brands/products of bread, pb, and jelly you use at home. Would be interested in some healthier options.

Not the PP, but I use homemade oat bread (recipe on King Arthur), Trader Joe’s natural organic peanut butter, and bonne manan fruit spread (1/3 less sugar).

I think bread is fine to buy too , but get from a local bakery that uses quality ingredients, not grocery store.