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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]sadly even the american school cafeteria lunch which is looked as low in comparison to the world is healthier than OP's packed lunch

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-2957301/What-school-lunches-look-like-world.html[/quote]
Don't ever post links to The Daily Mail and pretend that it's a reliable news source.[/quote]

Haha, I guarantee you that no school lunch looks like the ones shown in those pictures. I was a lunch lady in an elementary school cafeteria, so I have a lot of experience with what the "healthy" school lunches look like. You'd be amazed at the amount of waste every day. When I was a kid (1980s) there was a 50-50 chance that the school lunch was a good one. The stuff they serve now is nothing like it.

Op is capable of knowing what to pack for her child's lunch. With very young children, like ops daughter, the kids do a lot more talking and being in their classmates' business at lunch than they do eating. And, IME, if your child packs something very out of the ordinary, they are much less likely to eat it. It's the kids that have "normal food" (what everyone else is eating) that actually eat at lunch. So a PB&J is a pretty normal thing to pack for a first grader.

The way I see it for school lunch, I know my son is getting healthy foods at breakfast and dinner when he eats at home with his family, so if he eats a little bit of snack foods at school I'm ok with that. As long as he's not sitting at school hungry, I'm fine with some treats while he's at school. I'm not trying to impress anyone by sending sushi & zero sweets or crackers in his lunchbox, nobody's going to notice it anyways.[/quote]

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