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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes, we all survived. We drank from garden hoses, we rode bikes without helmets, we sucked in all the 2nd hand smoke from planes, restaurants, etc etc...yes, we survived but it doesn't make it right.

Why anyone would serve their kids and/or guests something with absolutely zero (or very close to zero) nutrition is baffling. Maybe if it was an absolute last resort, but that's about it. We know better now. Cereal isn't a healthy meal, pancakes aren't a healthy meal (even protein pancakes), waffles aren't a healthy meal (even protein waffles), pasta isn't a healthy meal (even protein pasta).  Do better...unless you honestly can't.

With that said...Holy crap. If someone offered me a bowl of pasta and [b]an apple[/b] for my lunch, I'd laugh my butt off.  Unless I was...maybe 7 years old. [/quote]

It’s way better than a lunchable and frankly way better than take out. Many of which also get served regularly. The sodium content alone is better. It was little kids and a mom for a casual lunch. Not ladies lunch with all the fixings. Get over it.[/quote]

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