peanut butter and jelly
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Anonymous
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How often do you think a kid should be able to have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
Please don't bother answering if your answer is never. But if you let your kids eat peanut butter and jelly, how often would you let a kid who would be happy to eat it every day? My daughter is starting kindergarten, preschool had catered lunches. PB&J is her favorite food in the world, and she has been excited ever since she found out that she could have it at lunch sometimes (not a nut-free school). She says she wants it every day. I'd like to make a rule, you can only have pb&J X times a week, and stick to it from the beginning so she isn't eating it everyday. But I'm not sure how many X should be. |
Anonymous
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Also have a PB&J maniac. I try and limit to 3 times a week (as in, not every day, so every other day). But honestly, its better than most of our options, so I often give up and send it every day.
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Anonymous
| We do sunbutter and jelly but we allow it twice per week (including weekends). It's easy and tasty but I worry about a lack of variety and the fat content and DD not exploring new things, etc (I have no science or anything to back this up, just my own parental worries). On other days for the "main item" we send leftovers like tortellini in a thermos; hummos with carrots and triscuits, soup, chicken from the night before, quesadillas, tacos, tunafish, egg salad, etc. Again, I have no real idea why, just that it seems like a good idea to keep mixing things up. |
Anonymous
| Every day here, but only once a day. Peanut butter is one of the few high-protein foods dd will eat. We do natural pb with no sugar or salt on whole wheat bread -- I don't see a prolem with it. |
Anonymous
| I don't see a problem with letting your kid have a pb&j every day. If you use wheat bread and a low-sugar jelly then it's not necessarily bad for her. Besides, she's going through a big change (going into kindergarten) and it might be comforting to her to have a consistent and familiar food every day for a while. |
Anonymous
| Like another poster said, if you use all natural-peanut butter, good whole wheat bread, and go light on all the all-fruit jelly I think it is a decent lunch option. Maybe 2-3 times a week? |
Anonymous
| I let DD have it as much as she wants. (Well, no more than once a day.) |
Anonymous
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Skinny active boy.
Whenever he wants. |
Anonymous
| This is all my 6 yr old will eat for lunch and my pediatrician sees nothing wrong with it as long as I vary the no sugar added nut butter (almond, peanut, sun) use whole grain bread and all fruit jelly. |
Anonymous
| Once a day. Five days a week. |
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| daily 2-3 times a day (usually 2 though). BEFORE you start in, until you have walked a mile in my shoes DO NOT JUDGE. My DS has senosory issues and eats a limited diet. We try slowly to expand it (with the help of professionals). PBJ and a nutritional suppliment drink are staples in his diet right now. He goes through phases where he will try other foods and drop the pbj for several months. Then it's back to dropping a host of different foods and back to pbj. My goal is to watch to make sure he doesn't loose weight (BTDT and it's not fun when your kid drops weight consistently instead of gaining it). |
Anonymous
I think it's fine too. I would be fine with it every day. My DD eats a pb sandwich every day on whole wheat bread, with a fruit on the side. |
Anonymous
Every single day. Healthy, nutritious, cheap, and vegan to boot. Wish my vegan kids liked it more! 
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Anonymous
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I'm fine with it because my DS loves PB. He eats a PB sandwich daily at lunch.
However, I do vary it up. Instead of PB & J, we do PB and honey. Seems to work just as well, and for some reason, I feel like honey is better than jelly. I read somewhere that you're better off giving your kid PB and sugar and it'd probably be less sugar than what's in most jelly. We also do whole wheat bread, FWIW. |
Anonymous
| one time a day. |