Anonymous wrote:Ignorance, laziness. They are probably from a lower class upbringing and somehow made it big. Anyone educated about nutrition understands that is akin to feeding your child poison. Probably healthier to send dog kibble.

Anonymous wrote:This is a very wealthy family (private school, $3m home) with a nanny for their three school-aged kids.

Anonymous wrote:Ignorance, laziness. They are probably from a lower class upbringing and somehow made it big. Anyone educated about nutrition understands that is akin to feeding your child poison. Probably healthier to send dog kibble.

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Anonymous wrote:Last year around this time, I had mysterious knee and ankle swelling that made it nearly impossible to walk, bend, get around.

Thank you, Lunchables, for helping make it easy to pack lunches during this weird time. Thank you, school lunch, for being an option. Thank you, Stouffer’s lasagna. Thank you, Eggo waffles. Thank you, Go-Gurts. Thank you, Chinese delivery. Thank you to the gourmet food delivery service that I very occasionally splurged on. Thank you, DH, for stepping up and doing way more than your fair share. Thank you, flexible employer. Thank you, neighbors and friends who helped me out and didn’t judge the contents of my kids’ lunch boxes.

What did the swelling turn out to be? Inflammation?

Anonymous wrote:I REALLY NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH "peas, blueberries, popcorn, etc."!!

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Anonymous wrote:I ate a PB&J and pack of Oreos or bag of potato chips (or both) everyday for lunch as a kid and don’t think that was unique among my classmates growing up in the 90s — lunchables everyday would have been healthier!

Anyway, if this is all my kid would eat, it’s not the hill I’d die on.

The chips and Oreos aren’t great, but a PB&J on whole wheat bread is vastly healthier than feeding your child carcinogenic deli meat day in and day out for years.

Deli meat should be at most a very occasional treat. It is best avoided altogether.

It’s crazy to read the posts in this thread and the see you all posting in threads about the rise of colon cancer in young people and being oblivious to the obvious connections between diets heavy in cured meat and processed garbage and young people dying of colon cancer.

I’m 53 years old and ate PB&J daily for years as a kid. Tuna salad a few times a week. Fruit as a side, no garbage chips or cookies. Sometimes school lunch when I was younger, but that was back when schools had kitchens and they cooked actual food that looked very much like the healthy meals cooked at home.

Shoveling processed foods and fizzy sugar laden drinks into your kids daily for decades and then wondering with anxiety, will my kids get colon cancer?

Other things that cause cancer but that a lot of adults seem to be okay with:

Alcohol (it's just straight facts that any amount of alcohol is way more likely to cause cancer than deli meat).
Steak
Not wearing sunscreen
Not getting the HPV shot
Air pollution

I think that it's really important to be responsible parents, but it's impossible to be perfect and sometimes we have to make judgment calls. And being judgmental about what other parents do is not going to make their kids' lives better.

Cool story Jan

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Anonymous wrote:I ate a PB&J and pack of Oreos or bag of potato chips (or both) everyday for lunch as a kid and don’t think that was unique among my classmates growing up in the 90s — lunchables everyday would have been healthier!

Anyway, if this is all my kid would eat, it’s not the hill I’d die on.

The chips and Oreos aren’t great, but a PB&J on whole wheat bread is vastly healthier than feeding your child carcinogenic deli meat day in and day out for years.

Deli meat should be at most a very occasional treat. It is best avoided altogether.

It’s crazy to read the posts in this thread and the see you all posting in threads about the rise of colon cancer in young people and being oblivious to the obvious connections between diets heavy in cured meat and processed garbage and young people dying of colon cancer.

I’m 53 years old and ate PB&J daily for years as a kid. Tuna salad a few times a week. Fruit as a side, no garbage chips or cookies. Sometimes school lunch when I was younger, but that was back when schools had kitchens and they cooked actual food that looked very much like the healthy meals cooked at home.

Shoveling processed foods and fizzy sugar laden drinks into your kids daily for decades and then wondering with anxiety, will my kids get colon cancer?

Other things that cause cancer but that a lot of adults seem to be okay with:

Alcohol (it's just straight facts that any amount of alcohol is way more likely to cause cancer than deli meat).
Steak
Not wearing sunscreen
Not getting the HPV shot
Air pollution

I think that it's really important to be responsible parents, but it's impossible to be perfect and sometimes we have to make judgment calls. And being judgmental about what other parents do is not going to make their kids' lives better.

Anonymous wrote:Oh go away. You know NOTHING about this family or their child.

Sometimes kids with special needs will only eat certain foods.

Also, a lunchable is not the worst thing a child could eat, especially if they also include things like peas, blueberries, popcorn, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I ate a PB&J and pack of Oreos or bag of potato chips (or both) everyday for lunch as a kid and don’t think that was unique among my classmates growing up in the 90s — lunchables everyday would have been healthier!

Anyway, if this is all my kid would eat, it’s not the hill I’d die on.

The chips and Oreos aren’t great, but a PB&J on whole wheat bread is vastly healthier than feeding your child carcinogenic deli meat day in and day out for years.

Deli meat should be at most a very occasional treat. It is best avoided altogether.

It’s crazy to read the posts in this thread and the see you all posting in threads about the rise of colon cancer in young people and being oblivious to the obvious connections between diets heavy in cured meat and processed garbage and young people dying of colon cancer.

I’m 53 years old and ate PB&J daily for years as a kid. Tuna salad a few times a week. Fruit as a side, no garbage chips or cookies. Sometimes school lunch when I was younger, but that was back when schools had kitchens and they cooked actual food that looked very much like the healthy meals cooked at home.

Shoveling processed foods and fizzy sugar laden drinks into your kids daily for decades and then wondering with anxiety, will my kids get colon cancer?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with op. Have you guys looked at the ingredients of those things? Pure junk, designed by food scientists to be hyper palatable to our kids.

The parents who are like “I know Lunchables are crap but what can I do, they’re all my kid will eat” is one thing. But to be so delusional as to ask “What’s wrong with Lunchables? They’re great!” is just…

Anonymous wrote:Op-you still haven’t explained how you know that all 3 children in this family ONLY ever get lunchables and nothing else every day?

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Anonymous wrote:All that cured meat in childhood sounds like a recipe for colon cancer.

Look around you, sweetie. We’re ALL raising our kids in an absolutely toxic hellhole. That cured meat is a drop in the ocean.

Yes there are lots of pollutants for us to work hard to avoid as much as we can.

That’s no excuse for choosing to feed your child cured meats, a known carcinogen and which are advised to be totally avoided by any halfway intelligent doctor, and sugary carbs every single day for lunch.

It’s lazy and careless parenting. Period.