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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not in DC, but my DD’s friend has a single mom who often has to work early hours and they live with the girl’s grandma too. The friend typically has lunchables and something like Oreo cookies. I have no idea if that’s fastest for the mom, easiest for the grandmother, or if the girl packs her own lunch. There’s not a lot of variety in our school lunches and they don’t seem that healthful, but I don’t know why they don’t do school lunches. I don’t really care except my DD constantly asks for them. I don’t want to get them because (a) a lot of plastic waste (b) they seem high in fat and sodium (but maybe no worse than whatever I make?) and (c) seem more expensive. I’ve tried sending her with similar ingredients some days, but she’s still intrigued. I just tell her “I don’t want to buy that” and when she asks why her friend gets to have them I just say “different families make different choices.”[/quote]

Have you looked at instagram and TikTok lately? People think it’s rich and cool to have stacks and stacks of the same stuff organized. People are putting a dozen Lunchables, sugary yogurts, meat sticks, perfect bars, and other junk in the fridge all lined up. Same with soft drinks and seltzers and juice. The pantry is stocked with rows of goldfish, applesauce pouches, individual Costco packs of cookies and other processed snacks. “Larlo is so independent! This is so great he knows to just grab one of each and lunch is done wahlahhh!!” [/quote]

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