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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What kid doesn't eat: a yogurt or applesauce, grapes, string cheese or fresh mozzarella, pirates booty, a granola bar. That is 100% standard kid fare for many kids.[/quote]

OK, I'll bite. But that is probably a total of 750 calories. Maybe 900. It's not enough.

He's clearly either growing or not into what you're packing as a "main." Ask: "What can we pack that you'd like to eat? Want to come to the store with me?"

Even after packing what my son wants, he gets tired of it after a while, and I allow him to tell me what he'd like, how we can switch it up, etc. And he does eat the full lunch we pack, but comes home and eats what I call second lunch. He's just....hungry.

If he's doing any kind of sports, protein protein protein. I'm not surprised he's balking at chicken salad. $10 his friends said "Ewwww. What's that?" once and he's never even pulled it out of the lunch kit again.

I think there's also some peer pressure and social aspects going on in the lunchroom either. Is he talking a lot and not able to finish his lunch? Is there a friend that buys and he wants to spend time in the line with them? Is there a girl he likes and wants to walk through the line with?

Or, have you ever thought he's giving the lunch to someone else? He may be trying to help someone and doesn't know how to tell you. Just throwing it out there.....You may need to get creative with how you are asking what's really going on at lunch.[/quote]

The main was posted by OP, some kind of sandwich (PB&J or turkey and cheese) and then suddenly everyone poo-poo'd it like "ugh I would never" but I've been around a lot of kids and they eat this stuff all the time. I wouldn't expect an adult to pack this lunch but it's a very basic kid lunch. OP doesn't sound like she's starving her kid in the least. He's just being fussy. I'd be annoyed too if my kid wasn't eating this and getting nasty cafeteria nachos. There's something I would never eat for lunch![/quote]

I think we all agree it's a very basic kid lunch, but it's clearly not the lunch for that kid.

She's not starving him, she's giving him food he doesn't want to eat. When faced with a choice he's finding a source for the food he does want to eat, which is at school.

I think the OP just needs to take a step back and talk to her kid. What does he want? What will he eat? But leading with the weight issue led folks in another direction that doesn't add up when she lists all the other stuff he's eating, which is basically fast carbs (I mean we don't know if it's a Quaker Chewy or a Kodiak Protein granola bar to be technical). It's simply not sticking with him. [/quote]

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