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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Husband and I are both Italian. His parents “are off the boat”. My grandparents were too and my parents were born in this country.

We have always had pasta for lunch or dinner.

I was with my kids (girl age 6 and boy 4) and a friend and her kids at a park. I invited them back to our house for lunch.

I made pasta-penne with butter for the kids and vodka sauce for myself and my friend.

She looked at it and said “is this lunch? A bowl of pasta?”

I said yes this is what we usually have. She looked at me oddly and didn’t say anything else and ate.

But what a weird response.[/quote]

Did the mom or the kid say that? Either way I would not consider plain buttered noodles an appropriate lunch for a kid. Why wouldn't you throw some tomato sauce and cheese on there at least? I'm not afraid of carbs and I serve pasta all the time but not just plain buttered pasta. [/quote]

My kid loves buttered pasta. That's why. I'm not even OP.[/quote]

Mine do too but there’s zero nutrition in that.  I want healthy kids.[/quote]

There is not actually zero nutrition. Is it optimal balanced nutrition with all the macros and vitamins? No. Is it candy for lunch? No. Kids do need carbs and fats too. They run around and use up energy. [/quote]

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