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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Husband and I are both Italian. His parents “are off the boat”. My grandparents were too and my parents were born in this country.

We have always had pasta for lunch or dinner.

I was with my kids (girl age 6 and boy 4) and a friend and her kids at a park. I invited them back to our house for lunch.

I made pasta-penne with butter for the kids and vodka sauce for myself and my friend.

She looked at it and said “is this lunch? A bowl of pasta?”

I said yes this is what we usually have. She looked at me oddly and didn’t say anything else and ate.

But what a weird response.[/quote]

Did the mom or the kid say that? Either way I would not consider plain buttered noodles an appropriate lunch for a kid. Why wouldn't you throw some tomato sauce and cheese on there at least? I'm not afraid of carbs and I serve pasta all the time but not just plain buttered pasta. [/quote]

My kid loves buttered pasta. That's why. I'm not even OP.[/quote]

Mine do too but there’s zero nutrition in that.  I want healthy kids.[/quote]

There’s cheese and butter - dairy and fat. Pasta - carbs. No veg or fruit but it won’t kill you not to have at every meal . I’d have offered an apple but we’ve done plenty of play dates where the kids ate just the pasta or bread or similar and skipped everything else on offer.

When I was a kid, my mom served PB&J on rye and an apple and milk. The other moms served fluffernutter on white bread with crust cut off and a cookie. You can guess which lunch got eaten more enthusiastically. And we all survived and eat plenty of veg as adults. [/quote]

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