How often do you give lunchables for school or camp?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never gave Lunchables to DD. It's all processed. But some of her friends in Kindergarten brought them to school for lunch often.

Probably everything you put in her lunch is processed, pp.

Did you pack a sandwhich? The bread is processed. Did you use peanut butter and jelly? Both exist because of a process. Meat and cheese? Processed. Any sort of spread? Processsed.

Did you include a milk or juice? Processed. All juice is processed -- getting it into the bottle itself is a process.

I'm sure she means highly processed as in very far from homemade. There's a world if difference between a loaf of Wonderbread and the stuff my grandmother baked even if she did use store bought flour.

[Anonymous]

Horrified moms- please post your unprocessed menus.

[Anonymous]

For the pizza kind you could send a flat bread, sauce, cheese and pepperoni if the kid likes it. Don't forget to include a treat

I think op likes the convenience of Lunchables. I mean, why else spend money on it? So I guess if op is looking for convenience, prepare the packages of homemade Lunchables in advance and use containers that can be thrown out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Horrified moms- please post your unprocessed menus.

I don't have an issue with processed food, because as another poster said, most everything is processed. I have an issue with artificial flavors and colors, unnatural ingredients, dyes, lots of sugar, etc.

DD's lunch tomorrow:
Cold homemade pizza (I wouldn't eat that, but she likes it)
Strawberries
baby carrots and green peppers
a madeline

She is in seventh grade. When I pick her up, she will tell me how hungry she is, I will ask if she has any leftover lunch, and she will eat the leftovers on the way home.

Tuesday's lunch will be:
homemade peanut butter and homemade jam on (non-homemade) mini pitas
cotton candy grapes
mini tomatoes
blue corn tortilla chips

She drinks water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Healthy version:
Roast your own ham or turkey; slice it thickly and use cookie cutters; use scraps in omelet

Buy Vermont cheddar sliced for cracker cuts; you can also use the different cookie cutters here too and use leftovers in an omelet or quiche

Combine with organic stoneground crackers and some fruit.

Kids still get the mini finger food aspect without the horrendous nastiness of the original.

Horrendous!!!

Sanctimommies like you crack me up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never. Not once. The school would never allow it, and I'd rather send her with a snickers bar (which I would never do, of course).

OF COURSE!

[Anonymous]

Basically abuse

[Anonymous]

SNORT at the idea that as an alternative you could roast you own ham, hand pick some organic cheddar and hunt out some stone milled crackers.

YOu could of course. But I STRONGLY suspect the OP packed lunchables not because she wanted her kids to have little bits of ham and cheese but because they were an easy thing to grab. So, your alternative doesn't really work...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basically abuse

Actually, as the parent of an overweight child, it would be abuse if I served them to my DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never once for camp.

(school mandates all kids eat its hot lunch)

Your school doesn't ALLOW home lunches? I'd be pizzed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horrified moms- please post your unprocessed menus.

I don't have an issue with processed food, because as another poster said, most everything is processed. I have an issue with artificial flavors and colors, unnatural ingredients, dyes, lots of sugar, etc.

DD's lunch tomorrow:
Cold homemade pizza (I wouldn't eat that, but she likes it)
Strawberries
baby carrots and green peppers
a madeline

She is in seventh grade. When I pick her up, she will tell me how hungry she is, I will ask if she has any leftover lunch, and she will eat the leftovers on the way home.

Tuesday's lunch will be:
homemade peanut butter and homemade jam on (non-homemade) mini pitas
cotton candy grapes
mini tomatoes
blue corn tortilla chips

She drinks water.

What's a madeline?

[Anonymous]

Madeline is a type of cookie

[Anonymous]

My nanny introduced DS to Lunchables before I found out and put a stop to it. Years later, he still asks for them. I use Lunchbots stainless steel containers that are divided in 4 sections, kind of like a Lunchable, then add cheese, whole wheat crackers, deli meat with no added nitrates, apple slices, with a side bag of popcorn and water. This is heavy in our lunchbox rotation. It's not the healthiest lunch I can dream up, but it's something easy that I know he'll eat and not as unhealthy as other alternatives.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we sometimes use Lunchables; however, I also include some fruit and yogurt or other items. I buy the smaller Lunchables - ham, cheese, crackers, snack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horrified moms- please post your unprocessed menus.

I don't have an issue with processed food, because as another poster said, most everything is processed. I have an issue with artificial flavors and colors, unnatural ingredients, dyes, lots of sugar, etc.

DD's lunch tomorrow:
Cold homemade pizza (I wouldn't eat that, but she likes it)
Strawberries
baby carrots and green peppers
a madeline

She is in seventh grade. When I pick her up, she will tell me how hungry she is, I will ask if she has any leftover lunch, and she will eat the leftovers on the way home.

Tuesday's lunch will be:
homemade peanut butter and homemade jam on (non-homemade) mini pitas
cotton candy grapes
mini tomatoes
blue corn tortilla chips

She drinks water.

What's a madeline?

I might have spelled it wrong. It's a cookie. https://www.google.com/search?q=madeleine+cookie&biw=1408&bih=738&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CDkQsARqFQoTCJnNluLIwMcCFVGUiAodUJgIJg