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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

My kid loves buttered pasta. That's why. I'm not even OP.

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

There’s cheese and butter - dairy and fat. Pasta - carbs. No veg or fruit but it won’t kill you not to have at every meal . I’d have offered an apple but we’ve done plenty of play dates where the kids ate just the pasta or bread or similar and skipped everything else on offer.

When I was a kid, my mom served PB&J on rye and an apple and milk. The other moms served fluffernutter on white bread with crust cut off and a cookie. You can guess which lunch got eaten more enthusiastically. And we all survived and eat plenty of veg as adults.

Yes, we all survived. We drank from garden hoses, we rode bikes without helmets, we sucked in all the 2nd hand smoke from planes, restaurants, etc etc...yes, we survived but it doesn't make it right.

Why anyone would serve their kids and/or guests something with absolutely zero (or very close to zero) nutrition is baffling. Maybe if it was an absolute last resort, but that's about it. We know better now. Cereal isn't a healthy meal, pancakes aren't a healthy meal (even protein pancakes), waffles aren't a healthy meal (even protein waffles), pasta isn't a healthy meal (even protein pasta). Do better...unless you honestly can't.

With that said...Holy crap. If someone offered me a bowl of pasta and an apple for my lunch, I'd laugh my butt off. Unless I was...maybe 7 years old.

Ok? I’m a grown adult and regularly eat and apple and cheese for lunch, with bread or a salad or something leftover for dinner to round it out. As did my parents before me. My mom was a big fan of apple and cheddar lunch with maybe some canned tomato soup to go with.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd toss some chicken in there. You're just feeding your kids carbs as a meal.

Everyone can manage one meal without protein. Ain't gonna either away and die.

With the amount of exercise I do I just found out I’m was tremendously under eating protein- like to the point of low immunoglobulins and illnesses. Most women in my circle exercise like I do. It’s protein or carbs to stay in the right calorie range. Most skinny but flabby Europeans don’t exercise like we do in the UMC+ circles because sports were as accessible when they were growing up.

Please read this to your therapist.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

My kid loves buttered pasta. That's why. I'm not even OP.

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

There’s cheese and butter - dairy and fat. Pasta - carbs. No veg or fruit but it won’t kill you not to have at every meal . I’d have offered an apple but we’ve done plenty of play dates where the kids ate just the pasta or bread or similar and skipped everything else on offer.

When I was a kid, my mom served PB&J on rye and an apple and milk. The other moms served fluffernutter on white bread with crust cut off and a cookie. You can guess which lunch got eaten more enthusiastically. And we all survived and eat plenty of veg as adults.

Yes, we all survived. We drank from garden hoses, we rode bikes without helmets, we sucked in all the 2nd hand smoke from planes, restaurants, etc etc...yes, we survived but it doesn't make it right.

Why anyone would serve their kids and/or guests something with absolutely zero (or very close to zero) nutrition is baffling. Maybe if it was an absolute last resort, but that's about it. We know better now. Cereal isn't a healthy meal, pancakes aren't a healthy meal (even protein pancakes), waffles aren't a healthy meal (even protein waffles), pasta isn't a healthy meal (even protein pasta). Do better...unless you honestly can't.

With that said...Holy crap. If someone offered me a bowl of pasta and an apple for my lunch, I'd laugh my butt off. Unless I was...maybe 7 years old.

It’s way better than a lunchable and frankly way better than take out. Many of which also get served regularly. The sodium content alone is better. It was little kids and a mom for a casual lunch. Not ladies lunch with all the fixings. Get over it.

I think it’s weird.

Would you serve someone bread and butter as the entire meal? Or rice with butter and call it lunch?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

My kid loves buttered pasta. That's why. I'm not even OP.

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

There’s cheese and butter - dairy and fat. Pasta - carbs. No veg or fruit but it won’t kill you not to have at every meal . I’d have offered an apple but we’ve done plenty of play dates where the kids ate just the pasta or bread or similar and skipped everything else on offer.

When I was a kid, my mom served PB&J on rye and an apple and milk. The other moms served fluffernutter on white bread with crust cut off and a cookie. You can guess which lunch got eaten more enthusiastically. And we all survived and eat plenty of veg as adults.

Yes, we all survived. We drank from garden hoses, we rode bikes without helmets, we sucked in all the 2nd hand smoke from planes, restaurants, etc etc...yes, we survived but it doesn't make it right.

Why anyone would serve their kids and/or guests something with absolutely zero (or very close to zero) nutrition is baffling. Maybe if it was an absolute last resort, but that's about it. We know better now. Cereal isn't a healthy meal, pancakes aren't a healthy meal (even protein pancakes), waffles aren't a healthy meal (even protein waffles), pasta isn't a healthy meal (even protein pasta). Do better...unless you honestly can't.

With that said...Holy crap. If someone offered me a bowl of pasta and an apple for my lunch, I'd laugh my butt off. Unless I was...maybe 7 years old.

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Anonymous wrote:So weird.

If someone gives me free food I just stfu and eat it. Especially if it’s homemade.

Box pasta and butter is a homemade meal?

She made the mother a homemade vodka sauce. Did you not read that?

Did she “make” it or open the jar? I think she opened a jar based on her culinary expertise. I guess opening a jar is also homemade to some who really only order ubereats.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

My kid loves buttered pasta. That's why. I'm not even OP.

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

There’s cheese and butter - dairy and fat. Pasta - carbs. No veg or fruit but it won’t kill you not to have at every meal . I’d have offered an apple but we’ve done plenty of play dates where the kids ate just the pasta or bread or similar and skipped everything else on offer.

When I was a kid, my mom served PB&J on rye and an apple and milk. The other moms served fluffernutter on white bread with crust cut off and a cookie. You can guess which lunch got eaten more enthusiastically. And we all survived and eat plenty of veg as adults.

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Anonymous wrote:So weird.

If someone gives me free food I just stfu and eat it. Especially if it’s homemade.

Box pasta and butter is a homemade meal?

Well it wasn’t carry out pizza.

That’s probably more homemade than the pasta from a box. If you said frozen pizza you might have had a point. Do you consider a box of macaroni and cheese gourmet?

Member of Junior Olympics is hilarious

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Anonymous wrote:It’s weird to not offer a salad or vegetable or fruit.

It’s rude to comment on what a host is serving unless it’s complimentary. I’d be happy

She made an observation. Can one observe a meal?

Anonymous wrote:This is a weird post. I learned a new term today though. "Almond Mom". I don't restrict what my kids eat but I am a firm believer against eating cereal as a meal. I couldn't even fathom being handed a bowl of pasta and expecting that to be a meal. You don't need to be an almond mom or dad to know that any processed carbs are not healthy and that lean protein is important. I also find it funny that people think that ethnicity makes their opinions better for some things...my great aunt came from Italy so I'm an expert of pasta dishes. Who cares? Noone cares where your relatives came from. Some relative of mine came from Germany...does that make me an expert on making sausage? It's so ridiculous. The best was the poster who claimed to be part of the junior Olympics growing up...like that makes her/his opinion any better than others.

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This is a weird post. I learned a new term today though. "Almond Mom". I don't restrict what my kids eat but I am a firm believer against eating cereal as a meal. I couldn't even fathom being handed a bowl of pasta and expecting that to be a meal. You don't need to be an almond mom or dad to know that any processed carbs are not healthy and that lean protein is important. I also find it funny that people think that ethnicity makes their opinions better for some things...my great aunt came from Italy so I'm an expert of pasta dishes. Who cares? Noone cares where your relatives came from. Some relative of mine came from Germany...does that make me an expert on making sausage? It's so ridiculous. The best was the poster who claimed to be part of the junior Olympics growing up...like that makes her/his opinion any better than others.

This thread will hit 30 pages for sure

Anonymous wrote:Since when do kids not eat buttered noodles once in a while...or pretty often for my fussy eater?

There is nothing wrong with kids eating buttered noodles. Generally when my picky kid eats a meal of just buttered noodles it’s at a meal where other things were offered and picky kid chose not to eat them. But in this case it seems like nothing else was offered to any of the kids. To me, that’s less than ideal. I probably would have offered the other kids the vodka sauce, and maybe some other things like cheese to sprinkle, a glass of milk, or apple slices. If for some reason we only had pasta and butter and enough sauce for 2 people, I probably either wouldn’t have invited someone over, or would have said something like “I am afraid our pantry is pretty bare. We just got home from vacation and I was planning to shop this afternoon. But we have some pasta, do you want to come enjoy it with us?” I also wouldn’t justify serving just buttered noodles as something Italians do, because while I am sure there are busy Italian moms with picky kids who do so once in a while, in my experience Italians often serve their pasta with sauce, and also eat fruits and vegetables.

The guest mom here was very rude. What she did was way worse than serving just buttered noodles, but I am addressing OP’s question of whether what she served is uncommon. My answer to that yes, it’s a little uncommon.

Since when do kids not eat buttered noodles once in a while...or pretty often for my fussy eater?