Teacher criticized my kid's lunch

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No wonder American kids are so fat. Not only do you feed your kids crap, you get huffy and defensive and want to lynch the teacher when she tries to educate your children on healthier ways to eat.

You're militantly ignorant and it's setting your kids up for a life-time of health problems.

The problem with judginess? You have no idea how anyone else feeds their kids, but the teacher is a damn saint when she makes a barbed comment to a kid. Know what's going through that kid's mind? "Why would my mommy send me with food that's not good for me?" Way to fuck with a kid's head, teacher...and over a PB&J and some fruit snacks.

Cause mommy is lazy or doesn't care

And you know this how?

Because a good mother stands in front of the stove and cooks food. If you pack uncooked food in your child's lunch, you are a lazy mother who is not even trying. (To do what? We still don't know.) That's what I have learned from this thread.

Not PP, but I almost thought you really were the cooked-lunches-only troll for a second

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:No wonder American kids are so fat. Not only do you feed your kids crap, you get huffy and defensive and want to lynch the teacher when she tries to educate your children on healthier ways to eat.

You're militantly ignorant and it's setting your kids up for a life-time of health problems.

The problem with judginess? You have no idea how anyone else feeds their kids, but the teacher is a damn saint when she makes a barbed comment to a kid. Know what's going through that kid's mind? "Why would my mommy send me with food that's not good for me?" Way to fuck with a kid's head, teacher...and over a PB&J and some fruit snacks.

Cause mommy is lazy or doesn't care

And you know this how?

Because a good mother stands in front of the stove and cooks food. If you pack uncooked food in your child's lunch, you are a lazy mother who is not even trying. (To do what? We still don't know.) That's what I have learned from this thread.

No, not a good mother. The nanny does the cooking. A good mother hires the proper nanny.

[Anonymous]

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Because a good mother stands in front of the stove and cooks food. If you pack uncooked food in your child's lunch, you are a lazy mother who is not even trying. (To do what? We still don't know.) That's what I have learned from this thread.

Wait - where is dad? How come he doesn't have to stand in front of the stove and cook? Just wondering exactly what the guidelines are.

[Anonymous]

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Because a good mother stands in front of the stove and cooks food. If you pack uncooked food in your child's lunch, you are a lazy mother who is not even trying. (To do what? We still don't know.) That's what I have learned from this thread.

Wait - where is dad? How come he doesn't have to stand in front of the stove and cook? Just wondering exactly what the guidelines are.

Don't be absurd, PP. Everybody knows that children are women's work! A man with a child is like a fish with a bicycle.

[Anonymous]

Homemade PBJ? Holy crap. Where did you find the recipe?

Stop sending in crap. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

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Practice this:

None Of Your Business. Say it loud and often when things like this occur.

YOU are the parent. YOU get to determine what your child eats. THEY do not.

Great way to have a good relationship with teacher.

My job as a parent is to protect my kids from 'well-meaning' people, not to suck up to my kid's teacher.

If you don't feed your child garbage then the "well-meaning" people won't have to step in and educate your kid.

[Anonymous]

A homemade PBJ is the right of every child.

It is the lunch of champions.

[Anonymous]

PBJ and yogurt is now "junk food" ... huh. I learned something new today. Thanks DCUM.

So what's the consensus on individual cups of applesauce (the kind with an ingredients list of apples, apple juice concentrate and ascorbic acid - no HFCS) or the packaged cups of fruit packed in fruit juice (also no HFCS)? Are those as trailer-trashy as PBJ? Am I totally fooling myself by sticking one of those in my kid's lunch box and mentally checking off "fruit"?

FWIW, my older child doesn't like PB, but he takes a cream cheese and jam sandwich at least a few times a week. Paired with one of the previously-discussed fruit cups, crackers or possibly even a cookie (oh the horror!) and water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No wonder American kids are so fat. Not only do you feed your kids crap, you get huffy and defensive and want to lynch the teacher when she tries to educate your children on healthier ways to eat.

You're militantly ignorant and it's setting your kids up for a life-time of health problems.

The problem with judginess? You have no idea how anyone else feeds their kids, but the teacher is a damn saint when she makes a barbed comment to a kid. Know what's going through that kid's mind? "Why would my mommy send me with food that's not good for me?" Way to fuck with a kid's head, teacher...and over a PB&J and some fruit snacks.

Cause mommy is lazy or doesn't care

And you know this how?

Because a good mother stands in front of the stove and cooks food. If you pack uncooked food in your child's lunch, you are a lazy mother who is not even trying. (To do what? We still don't know.) That's what I have learned from this thread.

Uncooked = lazy? So I (as mommy, because everyone knows daddies don't pack lunches, because you pack lunches with your vagina, evidently) put raw carrots in my kid's lunch today. OH THE HUMANITY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PBJ and yogurt is now "junk food" ... huh. I learned something new today. Thanks DCUM.

So what's the consensus on individual cups of applesauce (the kind with an ingredients list of apples, apple juice concentrate and ascorbic acid - no HFCS) or the packaged cups of fruit packed in fruit juice (also no HFCS)? Are those as trailer-trashy as PBJ? Am I totally fooling myself by sticking one of those in my kid's lunch box and mentally checking off "fruit"?

FWIW, my older child doesn't like PB, but he takes a cream cheese and jam sandwich at least a few times a week. Paired with one of the previously-discussed fruit cups, crackers or possibly even a cookie (oh the horror!) and water.

I love cream cheese and jam sandwiches, but I didn't know that anybody else knew about them!

[Anonymous]

http://snacksafely.com/2011/11/why-your-child-cant-bring-peanut-butter-to-school/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PBJ and yogurt is now "junk food" ... huh. I learned something new today. Thanks DCUM.

So what's the consensus on individual cups of applesauce (the kind with an ingredients list of apples, apple juice concentrate and ascorbic acid - no HFCS) or the packaged cups of fruit packed in fruit juice (also no HFCS)? Are those as trailer-trashy as PBJ? Am I totally fooling myself by sticking one of those in my kid's lunch box and mentally checking off "fruit"?

FWIW, my older child doesn't like PB, but he takes a cream cheese and jam sandwich at least a few times a week. Paired with one of the previously-discussed fruit cups, crackers or possibly even a cookie (oh the horror!) and water.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/the_kids/2013/03/pure_organic_buddyfruit_the_case_against_blended_fruit_snacks.html

I think applesauce is an option when your child does not like real fruit, but apparently mashed fruit snacks are not an equivalent to the real fruit. We give fruit pouches as a treat sometimes, but usually pack an apple, mandarin orange, or banana for lunch.

[Anonymous]

A homemade PBJ is the right of every child.

Did you know that you can buy premade ones in the freezer section at Costco? I think they are made by Smuckers!

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Did you know that you can buy premade ones in the freezer section at Costco? I think they are made by Smuckers!

You can buy hard-boiled eggs at the grocery store, too.

[Anonymous]

Funny, back when I taught school and kids forgot lunch money, they would give them a pbj. Times have certainly changed.