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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please have patience and tolerance. Most people are doing the best they can. Show some empathy. :-) [/quote]

No. A sleeve of cookies is not the “best you can.” Even if you can’t manage to prepare anything, at least buy skinny pop and gogo squeeze. [/quote]

LOL at gogo squeeze being a decent choice by any metric. You’re adorable.[/quote]

I wouldn’t send it either[b]. But it’s better than Oreos or Doritos [/b]for parents who are “doing the best they can” whatever that means. I mean, why even have kids if you can’t bother to feed them nutritiously? After “keep them alive” it’s probably your most important parenting task. [/quote]

Show your work. You sound like a sucker, to be honest.[/quote]

Here ya go! It wasn’t exactly hard to determine that applesauce beats mini muffins.

Gogo Squeez
No added sugar or artificial ingredients and only 60 calories and 14g of carbs. The 10g of naturally occurring sugar isn’t ideal but at least it’s not artificial.

https://lowfodmapeating.com/are-gogo-squeez-healthy/

One pack of Little Bites muffins is 200 calories (more than 3x), 9g of fat, 14g of (not naturally occurring) sugar and 30g of carbs (2x). They also include preservatives and artificial flavors.

https://lowfodmapeating.com/are-little-bites-healthy/

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I see. You’re making the assumption that all kids are diets. I’d prefer my kid eat 200 calories versus 60 for a snack, so point 1 goes to the muffins. I also don’t care about counting macros for my elementary schooler, maybe your kid has some special health needs? Sorry about that.

You also forgot to consider microplastics and plastic waste in your analysis of carb counts for grade schoolers. This was a “C-“ effort on your part.[/quote]

+1, the PP is approaching her child's snack like her child is a woman in her 40s trying to drop 15 lbs before swimsuit season. My kid needs calories, desperately.

To be honest I'd prefer to send both items as a snack, because then she gets the calories in the muffins plus the fiber in the apple sauce, and it's even more calories. But schools don't like two-part snacks for some reason and if I have to choose, the muffins do a better job of meeting my kid's nutritional needs.

I hate the preservatives (and packaging) in all the prepackaged stuff. Whenever I can, I choose options that don't have preservatives. But unfortunately these items tend not to travel as well and are not as visually appetizing as the prepackaged stuff. I still send my kid in with homemade muffins when I can, where I can control all the ingredients and even add stuff I know she needs like hemp hearts for protein or sneaking in fruit or veggies. But also the homemade muffin will come home half eaten (because it has less sugar and looks less appealing than the pre-packaged one).

It is so bizarre how people in this thread seem to think that simply serving your child healthy food is the end of the conversation. I serve my kid healthy food every day. At home, if she refuses to eat her peas or won't eat her protein, I can point her to the fridge where she can replace it with an apple or a peanut butter sandwich. At school those options don't exist, I'm not there to reinforce healthy choices, and I really just need her to get some calories so she's not cranky. Sometimes that means sacrificing ideals around how processed foods are or added sugar. Oh well. That's life. [/quote]

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