MS Lunch
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Anonymous
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Is it terrible of my to allow my child to eat only a cliff bar and apple for lunch at school. I have spent a ton of time and effort into thinking through creative and healthy lunches, but she never eats them. She says there is no time and/or she is not hungry. She is noise sensitive and a slow eater, so I can see how cafeteria lunch would be tough. The only thing she consistently eats is a cliff bar... Which seems to have protein and some nutrients. She also snacks when she gets home. However. I am feeling a bit guilty.
Additionally. She does not want hot lunch because the line is long and she does not like the food. |
Anonymous
| My kid doesnt eat at all. I just make sure I have food for sandwiches and other easy things to make for when he gets home. |
Anonymous
| Does she eat breakfast? What does she eat for breakfast? What does she eat when she gets home? If she is eating a pop tart for breakfast, no lunch and then eating chips as a snack, that's not ok. A big balanced breakfast, no lunch and a semi healthy snack when she gets home and she eats dinner (healthy of course), then fine |
Anonymous
| I went through the same thing, tried for healthy lunches and he never ate. So i also gave him whatever he would eat, he mostly just snacked. Don't feel guilty, they need to get through the day so do whatever it takes. When he got home I made sure he had a healthier snack. Now that he's going through a huge growth spurt he's come back around to taking a whole lunch. |
Anonymous
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Same problem here, except that my child hates bars of any type. We usually pack leftovers for him - today it was lasagna. He will eat a bit of it. |
Anonymous
| I think it's fine, as long as she eats a decent breakfast with some protein to keep her going. She can eat something more substantial after school. |
Anonymous
| Cliff bars are candy. Unless your child is an athlete, I would avoid it. It has more sugar than a Snickers bar. It has 22 grams of sugar and recommended daily dose for women per day is 25. Is there something healthier that she will eat? |
Anonymous
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My middle schooler has decided that lunch this year is a container of fruit and a small bag of crackers.
She eats an acceptable breakfast and she normally eats a good dinner, so I'm not fighting it. If your kid is eating reasonably well throughout the day, or over the course of the week, I wouldn't worry about it. |
Anonymous
| If a bar will be lunch, try to find a healthier one. I like the Kind Fruit and Nut Bars that have less than 6 grams of sugar. You have to read the labels. I've tried to get my kids to eat Luna Bars (but they hate the dates . . .) |
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Anonymous
| While full of sugar, unless your kid is in a super healthy lunch school, which I am not sure really exists here, it is still better than cafeteria lunch. |
Anonymous
Thats right. Welcome to he world of type 2 diabetes. |
Anonymous
She's not going to get Type 2 diabetes from having a Clif bar every day. WTF. Are people really counting calories and grams of each and every thing that's in their teenagers' food? I'm surprised no one commented that apples have too much sugar and you should just offer kale and raw almonds. Clif bars are gross, so you could probably find a tastier bar that she likes better, but she could be eating a worse lunch. |
Anonymous
You might want to rethink that statement, OP. There are plenty of people with a slight genetic predisposition to diabetes who would develop the disease with so much straight-up sugar every day.This is why this country is FULL of diabetics - how do you think they got that way? It's a scourge. |
Anonymous
| Sorry, not OP, meant PP. |