How often do you give your kids- Oscar Meyer Lunchables?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh, there are too many people living too long now. We don't have enough money or people to take care of the old ones. People used to live to a ripe old age of 60 and that was good enough.

Maybe we should start giving 60 year olds lunchables to send them on their way.

[Anonymous]

dont forget the cool whip

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh, there are too many people living too long now. We don't have enough money or people to take care of the old ones. People used to live to a ripe old age of 60 and that was good enough.

Maybe we should start giving 60 year olds lunchables to send them on their way.

Nah, by then they're onto it and won't eat it.

[Anonymous]

Growing up I probably ate these 5 or 6 days a week. Reason being my mom (who wasn't a model parent when it came to making sure there was fresh food in the house - lunchables were actually the least of my worries) left for work before I got up in the morning and usually just left a $5 bill on the table for my lunch.

Being a kid I basically bought the one thing that was easily available for that price (this is the early 90s, bear in mind). Lunchable, a banana and a bag of chips. Every day. From about 8 to 14. Unfortunately I LIKED them... and for $5 I _thought_ I was getting a balanced meal... no idea about sodium etc.

I'm 100% not defending her actions. Certainly my own kids won't eat them regularly (they aren't school age yet). But, if you do feel the need to give them to your kid occasionally do not feel terrible. I am a perfectly healthy adult. I probably didn't do myself any favors some articles make out like these things will kill your kid by 21... in my case I wised up in my late teens and now won't go near them

[Anonymous]

Reading my post back I realize I sound like one of those "I got hit and turned out just fine dammit" people... (which is also true, and another thing I'm NOT doing to my kids).

Really what I was trying to say is people seem to overreact. They are terrible for you but it's unlikely lunchables alone will kill ya...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Growing up I probably ate these 5 or 6 days a week. Reason being my mom (who wasn't a model parent when it came to making sure there was fresh food in the house - lunchables were actually the least of my worries) left for work before I got up in the morning and usually just left a $5 bill on the table for my lunch.

Being a kid I basically bought the one thing that was easily available for that price (this is the early 90s, bear in mind). Lunchable, a banana and a bag of chips. Every day. From about 8 to 14. Unfortunately I LIKED them... and for $5 I _thought_ I was getting a balanced meal... no idea about sodium etc.

I'm 100% not defending her actions. Certainly my own kids won't eat them regularly (they aren't school age yet). But, if you do feel the need to give them to your kid occasionally do not feel terrible. I am a perfectly healthy adult. I probably didn't do myself any favors some articles make out like these things will kill your kid by 21... in my case I wised up in my late teens and now won't go near them

At 10, I started smoking, and I used my $5 a day on cigarettes throughout all of high school. I kept smoking two packs a day through college and law school. I quit some time ago, and I am absolutely fine now. Successful, very healthy, and quite athletic. So my kids will be cool if I start giving them cigarettes, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading my post back I realize I sound like one of those "I got hit and turned out just fine dammit" people... (which is also true, and another thing I'm NOT doing to my kids).

Really what I was trying to say is people seem to overreact. They are terrible for you but it's unlikely lunchables alone will kill ya...

I can get behind this opinion. Although I still have zero plans to feed Lunchables to my children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Growing up I probably ate these 5 or 6 days a week. Reason being my mom (who wasn't a model parent when it came to making sure there was fresh food in the house - lunchables were actually the least of my worries) left for work before I got up in the morning and usually just left a $5 bill on the table for my lunch.

Being a kid I basically bought the one thing that was easily available for that price (this is the early 90s, bear in mind). Lunchable, a banana and a bag of chips. Every day. From about 8 to 14. Unfortunately I LIKED them... and for $5 I _thought_ I was getting a balanced meal... no idea about sodium etc.

I'm 100% not defending her actions. Certainly my own kids won't eat them regularly (they aren't school age yet). But, if you do feel the need to give them to your kid occasionally do not feel terrible. I am a perfectly healthy adult. I probably didn't do myself any favors some articles make out like these things will kill your kid by 21... in my case I wised up in my late teens and now won't go near them

At 10, I started smoking, and I used my $5 a day on cigarettes throughout all of high school. I kept smoking two packs a day through college and law school. I quit some time ago, and I am absolutely fine now. Successful, very healthy, and quite athletic. So my kids will be cool if I start giving them cigarettes, right?

If you read my second post you'd realize that's not really what I was trying to say (and I recognize my first post sounded like it was). I'm not saying that it's "cool" to give your kids lunchables just because I ate them and turned out healthy and with a love of good food. I'm simply saying that treating them as though they are 100% poison (as some have) is a little over the top. I won't encourage my kids to eat them and I recognize that not every kid will get away with eating them all them time and stay healthy... I'm just saying it is possible to do so.

By the sound of things in both our cases we were probably fairly lucky with natural health... smokes, booze and terrible food notwithstanding

[Anonymous]

"At 10, I started smoking, and I used my $5 a day on cigarettes throughout all of high school. I kept smoking two packs a day through college and law school. I quit some time ago, and I am absolutely fine now. Successful, very healthy, and quite athletic. So my kids will be cool if I start giving them cigarettes, right? "

I doubt you were able to buy cigarettes regularly at 10 years old, so your point is...well, not really a point at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"At 10, I started smoking, and I used my $5 a day on cigarettes throughout all of high school. I kept smoking two packs a day through college and law school. I quit some time ago, and I am absolutely fine now. Successful, very healthy, and quite athletic. So my kids will be cool if I start giving them cigarettes, right? "

I doubt you were able to buy cigarettes regularly at 10 years old, so your point is...well, not really a point at all.

Yes, I was. Not a problem at all. I just needed to get my $1.75 in change. They used to sell them in vending machines in unmanned areas of restaurants. Times have changed. Also, my dad smoked and bought by the carton and never noticed missing packs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"At 10, I started smoking, and I used my $5 a day on cigarettes throughout all of high school. I kept smoking two packs a day through college and law school. I quit some time ago, and I am absolutely fine now. Successful, very healthy, and quite athletic. So my kids will be cool if I start giving them cigarettes, right? "

I doubt you were able to buy cigarettes regularly at 10 years old, so your point is...well, not really a point at all.

Yes, I was. Not a problem at all. I just needed to get my $1.75 in change. They used to sell them in vending machines in unmanned areas of restaurants. Times have changed. Also, my dad smoked and bought by the carton and never noticed missing packs.

NP. I used to buy packs over the counter. All I had to do was say that they were for my mom and they'd sell them to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"At 10, I started smoking, and I used my $5 a day on cigarettes throughout all of high school. I kept smoking two packs a day through college and law school. I quit some time ago, and I am absolutely fine now. Successful, very healthy, and quite athletic. So my kids will be cool if I start giving them cigarettes, right? "

I doubt you were able to buy cigarettes regularly at 10 years old, so your point is...well, not really a point at all.

Yes, I was. Not a problem at all. I just needed to get my $1.75 in change. They used to sell them in vending machines in unmanned areas of restaurants. Times have changed. Also, my dad smoked and bought by the carton and never noticed missing packs.

NP. I used to buy packs over the counter. All I had to do was say that they were for my mom and they'd sell them to me.

God this brings back memories! I tried my first cigarette in 5th grade using the NPs method. Unfortunately, I started really smoking at 13. I quit when I was 22 and it was the HARDEST thing to do. I am 49, have not touched a cigarette since I was 22 yet every once in a while I want one (although they now stink to me and have for many, many years). I also sometimes have dreams where I chain smoke and it feels so real that when I wake up I cannot believe that I started smoking again until I realize it was only a dream.

[Anonymous]

Never. My parents never gave them to me as a kid and I don't plan to give them to mine either. I tried my first when visiting an aunt one summer and had them a few more times as study food when I was a poor student. They're not that good - just get your own cold cuts, crackers, throw in some grapes and make your own!

[Anonymous]

Ah the yogurt debate again - if you think yogurt is like a cookie, then you don't know what yogurt is. Please don't fill this board with BS about how a brownie is just as good as yogurt.

[Anonymous]

I read this thread and feel awfully old. I don't think lunchables were around when I was a kid. I did eat plenty that was good and plenty that was bad; during HS I went thru a phase of only eating some kind of packaged corned beef that was so heavily processed that my (very non healthfoody) mother used to call it a nitrate sandwich.