What makes a family give lunchables for lunch every day?

[Anonymous]

Smuckers Natural peanut butter is affordable, widely available, and ingredients list is short: peanuts, salt.

When first opening the jar, one has to stir it all together which takes a moment or two. Not needed again the next time one grabs that jar from the refrigerator.

[Anonymous]

There are some jams which are only fruit, pectin, and some sugar.

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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.

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.

I love the “quality ingredients” people. Flour is flour. But yup, yours is WAY BeTTER

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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!

You don’t get that organic fresh vegetables are expensive— for people who live in urban areas and/or without access to “home plots”? I live in an apartment. My home doesn’t have a “plot”. I have herbs in small pots by the windows.
Add in that many people who are slightly less urban live in townhouses and other communities with rules that prevent visibly growing “fresh produce “ in what little land they have access to.

[Anonymous]

The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand.

Someone needs to get laid. STAT

[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

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.

I love the “quality ingredients” people. Flour is flour. But yup, yours is WAY BeTTER

No, actually it is not. Grocery store bread uses flour that has been enriched, bleached, and bromated plus a whole laundry list of ingredients such as preservatives, dough and texture enhancers, gums, corn syrup, cheap oil.

Bread should have: flour (unbleached and not bromated), water, yeast, salt. Sometimes milk, honey, or other grains depending on type. That is it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand.

Blah blah blahbity blah

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL I figured I would get flamed by other lazy parents! And no, there is nothing else included. Just lunchable.

You do you. You're getting flamed for being so judgemental. Who cares what you think.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand.

Blah blah blahbity blah

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand.

And yet I’m sure you’re one of those people who thinks nothing of putting a child on a bike on a busy city street so maybe you’re not great at assessing risk?

[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

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.

I love the “quality ingredients” people. Flour is flour. But yup, yours is WAY BeTTER

No, actually it is not. Grocery store bread uses flour that has been enriched, bleached, and bromated plus a whole laundry list of ingredients such as preservatives, dough and texture enhancers, gums, corn syrup, cheap oil.

Bread should have: flour (unbleached and not bromated), water, yeast, salt. Sometimes milk, honey, or other grains depending on type. That is it.

Can you please post a picture of an ingredient label listing all of that in a bag of flour? I have never seen such a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand.

Thank you. This is the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand.

Thank you. This is the truth.

Unfortunately many people are too blind to see it. No one is saying your kid’s diet needs to be 100% pure. But c’mon, this is pretty basic.

[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.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.