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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dumb question but is my kid's public elementary school an outlier in that we aren't asked to send a snack? We just send lunch. Maybe because dc is still in 1st grade and their lunch is at 11. Is this something that most older kids have - a snack time in the morning?

Back when dc was in daycare I hated the number of snack times that they had. It totally ruined her lunch and the snacks were not especially healthy. Things like goldfish, animal crackers, breakfast bars and canned fruit. DC is tall and skinny and on the low end for bmi and I am pretty sure she gained weight once she started K and didn't have a snack time. She still gets snacks at aftercare but often eats most of her lunch.[/quote]

It has varied from year to year for my kid and is usually dependent on when their lunch is. [b]In most elementary schools, one grade or another gets shafted on the lunch front and gets the late slot, there's not much you can do other than build a snack time into the morning.[/b]

I hear what you are saying about snacks killing lunch appetites. But this is just a good example of how the real problem here is the way eating is structured at schools. Lunch often happens too late. Snacks take the edge off but can undermine lunch. There are restrictions on what can be sent because of school rules (our school dictates that all snacks not require refrigeration and be nut free, individually packaged, and not create undue mess since they are eaten at desks -- this eliminates most of the healthier options listed here and is why my kid mostly gets crackers of some kind for their snack even though that's not what I'd serve as a snack at home). I might look askance at Doritos or cookies as a snack, that's not what I'd choose to send (though my kid would LOVE it, now I'm curious if other kids at school are getting this because I bet she's so jealous). But because the situation is already just not ideal in any sense, I'm not going to judge those families because I don't really think there's a great answer to this problem. I don't think my kid's snack situation is set up to encourage healthy options. It's restricted in a way that pretty much dictates crackers, pretzels, or similar.[/quote]

We've had to send snacks for the reverse problem. Lunch is too early (on two hour delay days it's the first thing on the schedule), so we send a snack for the afternoon. It still doesn't always get eaten, so I send something that's not going to rot if it stays in the backpack for a few days, which means something processed. We send protein bars, but I'm not kidding myself that those are much healthier than the stuff OP is complaining about.[/quote]

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