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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ahhhh I remember that age. I used to pack a very healthy lunch for my kid (protein, rice, veg, no sugar). Then I got an email from the teacher telling me not to pack Brussels sprouts anymore because my son and some other boys were throwing them at each other's heads because they looked like little balls.

I generally think that unless you're paying for the food that someone else is eating, you have no business commenting on it.[/quote]

There's a wide range of foods between cold brussels sprouts and oreos for snack. School lunch was the same in the 80s and 90s as it is now - nor did we have coolers or microwaves back then to use. But our parents sent us ants on a log, or apples cut up (yes they got a little brown - my mom put lemon on but that tasted weird too), orange slices, pretzel sticks, goldfish, maybe a homemade baked good on a good day. It is crazy when I join my kids at lunch. So many of the kids eat exclusively prepackaged junk - E.g. Capri Sun, Twix Yogurt, Cheetos, and Chips A Hoy -as the whole lunch. Then a few kids have twee bento boxes (hey, good for those moms). The immigrant kids have delicious looking real food for lunch. Then you still have the dwindling PBJ/cheese stick/apple/one cookie crowd.

I do see on here frequent complaints about no nuts. We have lived in multiple states and never had a nut ban in our kids' schools, but we do not live in the DMV. That would be definitely be tough. [/quote]

Not sure where you grew up, but in the 90s, my classmates in an upper class suburb of Massachusetts were bringing the same snacks that OP is complaining about. It’s not a new problem. [/quote]

OP here. It may not be new, but I do feel like the number of students doing it is higher and the volume of food is more. I feel like mothers back then had more desire to appear motherly and wouldn’t want to look bad in front of teachers or other parents. I’ve had kids bring sealed boxes or Girl Scout cookies to school! But the worst is all the cookies already packaged and portioned. You know parents buy giant cases at Costco and just leave them out for the kids to eat at will at home. I don’t believe for one second kids eat like this at school and eat cucumbers and hummus at home. [/quote]

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