Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Cliff bars are candy. Unless your child is an athlete, I would avoid it. It has more sugar than a Snickers bar. It has 22 grams of sugar and recommended daily dose for women per day is 25. Is there something healthier that she will eat?


Thats right. Welcome to he world of type 2 diabetes.

She's not going to get Type 2 diabetes from having a Clif bar every day. WTF. Are people really counting calories and grams of each and every thing that's in their teenagers' food? I'm surprised no one commented that apples have too much sugar and you should just offer kale and raw almonds.

Clif bars are gross, so you could probably find a tastier bar that she likes better, but she could be eating a worse lunch.

You might want to rethink that statement, OP.
There are plenty of people with a slight genetic predisposition to diabetes who would develop the disease with so much straight-up sugar every day.This is why this country is FULL of diabetics - how do you think they got that way? It's a scourge.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it terrible of my to allow my child to eat only a cliff bar and apple for lunch at school. I have spent a ton of time and effort into thinking through creative and healthy lunches, but she never eats them. She says there is no time and/or she is not hungry. She is noise sensitive and a slow eater, so I can see how cafeteria lunch would be tough. The only thing she consistently eats is a cliff bar... Which seems to have protein and some nutrients. She also snacks when she gets home. However. I am feeling a bit guilty.

Additionally. She does not want hot lunch because the line is long and she does not like the food.

You can thank Michelle Obama for that. My kids hated school lunches when she convinced USDA to serve food nobody wanted.

OP here - actually she hated them before Michelle Obama in K... the DCPS food has always been terrible, all packaged, etc. She liked it when more fruit and veggies were added in 2nd grade as that is all she would eat. Also, even with Obama, schools can do better to serve healthy and tasty foods. I think its the food lobbies that make things so crappy, in addition to the low quality and over priced vendors that make terrible food. DD has no problem eating health food at home.

Sadly DD does not like nuts nor any of the healthier bars. I am working on going back to the fruit and veggie lunch, but with ADHD she really needs a protein as well.