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Pack everything you listed but not the cookies. Yes, they're healthy, I get it, I've made many a similar "cookie"  and muffin and cake myself. But just make your kid's life easier and the teacher's and your own, too, and have the healthy cookies as an after-school snack. Done.

And an early PP was right to note that teachers see some kids who gobble the sweet stuff or other treats first, and then run out of time to eat the foods which will [i]actually[/i] keep them full and energized longer.

Yes, again, I know your oatmeal cookies will do that, they're not commercial crap. But the teacher doesn't have time to parse what ingredients are in them or whether they're healthier than the Oreos the next kid at the table wants to eat first. The teacher does have a vested interest in getting slow-eating preschoolers as a group to eat the stuff that sticks to their ribs and not the things that burn off too fast. It's preschool. She's not a sixth grade teacher snatching away your kid's chips because, unhealthy. (That was an ancient thread here I recall.)

Why put your kid in this position again? Pack a sandwich, berries, yogurt or cucumber slices or whatever and make it the habit not to pack whatever your kid thinks of as cookies. It can be a nice ritual to  have the oatmeal cookies or healthy mini muffins or whatever after school. [/quote]

Nope, the child can eat whatever the parent packs. [/quote]

And the parent should pack foods that don't create drama in preschoolers' heads. This is so easy--except for parents who feel they just have to assert themselves by including "whatever." But you do you, and wonder later why your kid is so grumpy at the end of the preschool day, when you find their substantial food is still in the lunch bag but the Oreos (or "cookies") are gone. Enjoy that after-school sugar crash.

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