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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School lunch and snack are universally terrible in the United States. So unhealthy. Teach him to always eat his own fruit and veg snacks. Bring in a bagged lunch of fruit, veg, whole grains.

Just say no to junk! We are poisoning our children. [/quote]

Depriving and forbidding junk food will just make them want it more.  I agree it would be better if processes junk food ceased to exist but it is so pervasive that you need to accept it or your kids will start sneaking around and hoarding food.[/quote]

Mine were raised with very little processed food and the times they’ve tried anything beyond crackers or potato chips  they said it tasted like cardboard or plastic and spit it out. I never forbid them to eat anything I just usually make things from scratch and don’t buy many processed foods. If you raise your children with healthy home cooked meals and a focus on fresh whole ingredients that is what they will want to eat and learn to cook. They are old enough that if they ask to try something I sometimes buy it but they rarely ask. If they want a snack they know how to make brownies and cookies and a hundred other things from scratch and think they are much better than store bought that have been on a shelf for weeks. They don’t need to hoard food, they just get up and make whatever they want. Difference is mine don’t rely on frozen or prepackaged junk they grab a recipe and figure it out in the kitchen. [/quote]

NP.  Are you a SAHM? At what point did your kids start cooking snacks for themselves?  Because geez, as much as I would like to make everything from scratch for my family, between working full time and taking care of two young kids in the evening/weekends the best I can typically do is make a batch of hummus or muffins.  Although I generally pack my kids lunch, I let them have the snacks given out at daycare and aftercare/school because i simply don’t have time to make from scratch two snacks per kid per day.  I’m sure they’d just want to eat goldfish like their friends anyway.  And I can’t stop my older one from eating the sugar laden breakfast provided every morning at public school.  I feel like the system is working against me and have given up.[/quote]

This is neither here nor there to OP's question because a preschooler will not be baking on their own for their classmates, plus it's not even allowed for the preschool in question.

OP, in addition to the other suggestions provided, those Made Good granola bars aren't bad, and if they allow refrigerated snacks I like the Stonyfield Farms yogurt tubes (the whole milk varieties have less sugar).[/quote]

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