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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A tip I recently heard with respect to kids struggling to gain weight: consider sometimes making sandwiches on Costco croissants instead of bread. It’s admittedly not the most nutritious, but each croissant is a calorie bomb.[/quote]

I’m one of the moms with an underweight kid and my kid doesn’t like bread or baked goods. Not joking!!! He eats his peanut butter out of a single serving PB cup, and spreads it on apple slices. It’s insane. I’m like dude EAT BREAD. He’d happily sit at the wheat allergy table if our school had one![/quote]

It's so hard. My kid is the opposite -- bread is one of the few foods she will eat and peanut butter or hummus or cheese are all pretty hit or miss with her.

But one reason allergy bans are hard for us is precisely because my kid is so limited with her food and will avoid any food for any reason. It takes so little to turn her off a food. Having a ton of restrictions on what you are allowed to send to school actually triggers her food anxiety generally, and I actually suspect one reason she fights eating peanut butter (at home, where I serve it) is because she knows it's a banned food at school and this makes her brain go "peanut butter = bad." Even the bread situation makes me nervous because she's getting old enough that she has started hearing weight loss nonsense from other kids and their parents, and if someone starts telling her that bread is "unhealthy" I don't know if we can get her to keep eating it.

For this reason I really resent the entire conversation around food and health in schools and parent communities. My kid goes to therapy, hopefully we find a way through these food anxieties and can untangle it. But my single biggest fear for her is that her elementary food aversions become a teenage eating disorder and this winds up being a battle she fights her whole life. So yeah, my eye gets real twitchy when I hear people talking about "the Big 8" like it's a perp list. There is nothing inherently wrong with soy, it's actually a foundational part of many people's diets! But people don't think. They are laser focused on their own kids and will demonize anything their kids can't eat to make their own lives easier even if it creates some very harmful effects for kids like mine.[/quote]

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