Parents - your kids are bringing garbage snacks to school

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are grown and flown now but I always packed mini-versions of regular food as school snacks for when they were in ES and MS. My kids bento boxes often had the following snacks.
- blueberry pancakes (sweeten with dates puree in the batter, no need to send syrup)
- cut up cheese cubes
- cut grapes or berries
- tangerines (half peeled)
- yogurt (homemade)
- french toasts
- quesadilla
- spiced vegetable appe, upma, spiced idli
- crepes filled with nutella or just sweetened and cardamom-flavored or vanilla flavored mashed paneer or ricotta.
- tea sandwiches - usually cucumber or egg salad. Cut a full sized sandwich in 4 squares or triangles.
- Use rice wrappers, mandu wrappers, puff pastry sheets, empanada dough, parantha dough, dosa batter, cheela batter etc. - and fill it with any stuffing on hand + cheese - and bake it or steam it. I would go crazy with different fillings - eggs, meat, beans, vegetables, cheese, rice, nuts, leftover pasta, mac and cheese, deli meats, and fruits.

Thank you for this— my son’s school provides lunch, but it isn’t healthy and he doesn’t like it (like, jelly sandwiches and white rice) and he needs so many more calories lately. I’ve been going crazy trying to find things he will eat that are nutritious, or at least include some protein/fiber/fat so he isn’t famished at pick up.

This is only helpful for someone with the time to prepare all of it. I used to prepare lunches like this for my kid when I was a SAHM. I no longer do, sadly. My kid gets a lot more pre-packaged and processed foods now because it's a way to get food in a lunchbox with minimal effort. I feel bad about it and try to buy the healthiest stuff I can.

The average working parent simply cannot prepare food like that. I know because I've done it.

I absolutely 100% disagree with you. You can prep or make most of the food before or reuse leftovers in creative ways. You just have to get away with buying into the myth that only packaged food are snacks. Stop believin that giving healthy foods is time consuming or costly.

If your kid had a life threatening illness or food allergy, you would be making every single meal at home.

Giving healthy foods to children is a solved problem already. This is not something that you have to solve from scratch. Cheese cubes, loaded sandwiches, fruits, veggies ...these are not rocket science to make or pack.

Yep, plus one on this. I am a single mom with full custody who works way more than 40 hours a week, but providing food cooked from scratch is a priority for me, so I make it happen. And PP could too, if it was a priority for her, but sounds like it is not. Not surprising, a lot of people who stay home aren't high functioning, so stands to reason she went back to work and can't figure out how to adequately feed her children.

A two parent household wasn’t a priority, though? Why should anyone give a $hit what you think about anything? You’ve already failed your kids.

I disagree that a single parent has failed their kids anymore than any parent has, but do think this comment is a great example of why it is a fruitless activity to wander around condescending to other parents about how you have it all figured out. There isn't a person on the planet who really has it all figured out, and when you present yourself that way, you just making yourself look stupid. Like I think PP basically asked for this kind of judgment by making a really unkind judgment about someone else for no reason.

I’m PP and I agree with your assessment. My comment was tongue-in-cheek. Along the lines of first removing the plank from your own eye before worrying about the specks in your neighbors…

Lol so a single mom can’t have an opinion about anything? That is maybe the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on here and that’s saying a lot.

Some people are so triggered by the true fact that packaged and overly processed food is awful for you and your kids. And that it is possible to cook from scratch even if you have a job or whatever other excuse.

Since you still don’t get it -

At least MY kids sit down to eat dinner with their Mom AND Dad every night, even if the food wasn’t cooked from scratch.

Some people are so triggered by the true fact that growing up in a broken home is awful for your kids, no matter what the excuse.

Maybe they are people who read academic studies and are triggered by your ignorance? It really depends on who the parents are, how much conflict is in the home, etc. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2930824/.

Conflict in the home is a choice the parents are making, i.e. a lame excuse to break up your kids’ family. You may as well feed them oreos and doritos if that’s how much you care about their well-being.

Hmmm. Only daughters of educated single mothers are the highest academically performing group as a sector. Are you engaging in resource dilution because you don't care about the well-being of your kids?

But what did they SNACK ON?! If the study didn’t control for Doritos and chocolate milk it’s garbage!

Exactly.

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I bet, that those that pack healthy lunches, also pack healthy snacks. And vice-versa.

Not my monkey, not my circus. Your kids poor results don't impact me or my kid. Continue with your delulu parenting.

Thank you for sacrificing your kid for the benefit of others!

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Anonymous wrote:I bet, that those that pack healthy lunches, also pack healthy snacks. And vice-versa.

Not my monkey, not my circus. Your kids poor results don't impact me or my kid. Continue with your delulu parenting.

Thank you for sacrificing your kid for the benefit of others!

I pack my kids a Diet Coke and a pack of Zyns for snack and honestly they are killing it. These kids on hummus and carrots just can’t compete with my kids hyperfocused and hopped up on caffeine and nicotine.