Does your middle school buy multiple school lunches each day?

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Anonymous wrote:Hi DS is 13 and often gets two lunches at school bc one is not enough.
Also it’s no one else’s business if we do school lunch vs home lunch. I work full time and packing a lunch was a big stress for me. Please don’t judge others who make different choices.

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Anonymous wrote:Here we go. OP asked a specific question. Pretty sure she and her daughter, over the many years of education they’ve managed together, have realized that bringing lunch to school is an option.

Yes, my kid does this and I work at a school and see the lunch portions. They are very small.

Through the many years of education we’ve managed together, we’ve learned that taking lunch to school is an option. Kid does not select this option, while my other kid does.

So why wouldn’t you bring a lunch? Especially if school portions aren’t enough food?

NP, but based on my kids I’m guessing that the kid doesn’t leave enough time in the morning to make their lunch and doesn’t want to do it the night before. My kids don’t particularly love school lunch but they like making a lunch even less, and I’m not packing a lunch for a 12 year old so it’s on them to do it.

You’d rather they are the crap school lunch than make them a lunch because they’re 12?
My kid is 11 and I make her lunch. I’m making mine for work anyway so no extra work to make hers. A lot of this time I make it at the same time as dinner the night before

Yes, they are 12, an age where they need to learn to do low stakes things for themselves. No one is starving, they don’t like the school lunch they are welcome to make one and bring it.

Way to go lazy parent! Now your kid can eat processed gross food because you refuse to help them out with a packed lunch. Horrible parenting.

You can yell into the ether about it being horrible parenting but that doesn’t make it so. You’re teaching your 12 year old to be lazy and spoiled if you’re continuing to pack their lunch for them like they are in Kindergarten.

You both sound insane. It’s fine to have your kid pack his own lunch at 12 and it’s also fine to do it for him. My Dad packed my lunch every day in high school, and it didn’t make me lazy and spoiled. I just appreciated it and he was proud of how good my lunches were every day.

Right. Regardless of if your child packs their own lunch or you do- it teaches them to prioritize what they are putting in your body. Eating shouldn’t be an afterthought and grabbing whatever is most convenient. Take 5-10 min to pack something nutritious. I don’t get why this is so stressful. People are now “too busy” to pack their own lunch, cook a simple dinner, or even pick up their own takeout. Everyone is getting lazier and lazier

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Anonymous wrote:A year or two ago someone posted here or on a FB page pictures of their high schooler's lunch. The standard serving was 4 chicken nuggets that day plus some sort of starch and milk or water. For any teen who is even moderately active that is not enough food.

School lunches are gross and my teen normally packs but has in the past admitted to buying two school lunches because it simply isn't enough food to just buy one, especially if part of it is gross and the kid doesn't eat it.

Yes it is. The belief that it’s not us why so many kids are obese.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid apparently orders at least 2 lunches every day at middle school. I was wondering why her school lunch account was draining so fast. She says the portions are tiny, so she needs that much to fill her up. She is average height and weight, and eats normal portions at home. Is my kid just a ravenous school lunch eater, or are you seeing the same in your kid?

Same here, OP, same experience. I guess, I will have to start supplementing their lunch from home....

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Anonymous wrote:My kid would totally do this to get a double portion of the one thing that he liked from the lunch while throwing the rest of it away.

Mine does this.

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Mine gets lunch plus a .75 snack, whatever that is.

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My son sometimes buys two lunches. The portions are the same for kids in kindergarten as they are for high schoolers! Crazy.

It really does a huge disservice to the kids who rely on school lunch for their calories for the day and may not have food at home to bring.

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My kid occasionally buys an extra entree. It isn’t charged as two lunches if she does it at one time.