Anonymous wrote:

Didn't read all 15 pages of responses, but it is way better than the hot lunches that are served. French fries and slurpees count as "fruits and vegetables". My kids tell me potatoes are "always" on as a vegetable because that's what 95% of kids will eat. So I would not let this bother me in the least.

No, they don't.

Anonymous wrote:My K came home and told me how her teacher told her that her lunch was "unhealthy" and that she needs to eat more fruits and veggies at lunch. She then turned to my older kid and said "I hope your lunch is healthier"

Now I will say, she is right. Lunch was a homemade PBJ, GoGurt, some crackers and a Welch's fruit snack packet. I hadn't really realized that this is, in fact, all processed food. So, the good news is that I am now aware an will be packing fruit/veggie.

But...wtf teach? Seems odd that she would say something like that to my kids.

Didn't read all 15 pages of responses, but it is way better than the hot lunches that are served. French fries and slurpees count as "fruits and vegetables". My kids tell me potatoes are "always" on as a vegetable because that's what 95% of kids will eat. So I would not let this bother me in the least.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My SIL had the worst time getting her incredibly skinny DS to eat when he was 7, 8, 9. The only thing he liked was....bacon.

She used to buy precooked bacon at Costco by the ton. He ate a pound a day. Nuked it himself.

He's 19 now and a strapping college freshman in perfect health. Seriously, ladies. Unclench.

This is how my toddler started eating crap. He was a tiny, skinny baby who would barely eat. At 3 he has started to eat better but I'll probably be that mom sending in the pbj, gogurt etc. I'll probably buy it from whole foods to make myself feel better but really, it's not different.

I've got a skinny kid I bend over backwards to feed. The thing is, if you load him up on sugar, he's not getting the proper nutrients so he isn't growing anyway. We do a lot of bacon (nitrate-free from WF). The key is to figure out what he'll eat and try to find the healthiest option from there. Our kids loves chicken noodle soup, so I make big pots of it and add tons of olive oil for extra fat. For yogurt, we get the full fat, grass fed milk kind. Instead of PB&J, I do almond butter on wheat bread. Like all kids, he loves chips, so I buy organic, non-gmo corn tortilla chips and give him salsa or hummus to dip them in.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My SIL had the worst time getting her incredibly skinny DS to eat when he was 7, 8, 9. The only thing he liked was....bacon.

She used to buy precooked bacon at Costco by the ton. He ate a pound a day. Nuked it himself.

He's 19 now and a strapping college freshman in perfect health. Seriously, ladies. Unclench.

This is how my toddler started eating crap. He was a tiny, skinny baby who would barely eat. At 3 he has started to eat better but I'll probably be that mom sending in the pbj, gogurt etc. I'll probably buy it from whole foods to make myself feel better but really, it's not different.

I have no negative opinion about the pbj if made with the healthier options of each ingredient, but really, there are plenty of ways to give skinny kids healthier high-calorie appetizing food, and full fat yogurt that you sweeten yourself is delicious and so much healthier than gogurt!

Anonymous wrote:My SIL had the worst time getting her incredibly skinny DS to eat when he was 7, 8, 9. The only thing he liked was....bacon.

She used to buy precooked bacon at Costco by the ton. He ate a pound a day. Nuked it himself.

He's 19 now and a strapping college freshman in perfect health. Seriously, ladies. Unclench.

This is how my toddler started eating crap. He was a tiny, skinny baby who would barely eat. At 3 he has started to eat better but I'll probably be that mom sending in the pbj, gogurt etc. I'll probably buy it from whole foods to make myself feel better but really, it's not different.

Anonymous wrote:

Many of your kids likely throw this healthy stuff out and beg or trade off with their friends!

+1000

This is the same kind of giving up that we read on here about cell phones in schools "eh, you can't really control anything kids do, so just do whatever parenting/schooling is convenient for the grown-ups." It's pathetic, because you actually can control all that. If you offer them good-tasting healthy food consistently from a young age, and don't give them a way out daily with "just one cookie" (that can give the calories of half the meal), or the "dessert food group", they will enjoy healthy food.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PB and J when the parents give up

Give up what?

Somebody in DCUMland really, really, really hates peanut butter.

Pretense

Anonymous wrote:PB and J when the parents give up

Give up what?

Somebody in DCUMland really, really, really hates peanut butter.

PB and J when the parents give up

My SIL had the worst time getting her incredibly skinny DS to eat when he was 7, 8, 9. The only thing he liked was....bacon.

She used to buy precooked bacon at Costco by the ton. He ate a pound a day. Nuked it himself.

He's 19 now and a strapping college freshman in perfect health. Seriously, ladies. Unclench.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christ, it's not like she sent the kid to school with a slim jim, doritos and a soda. The lunch was perfectly fine.

She sent PBJ, GoGurt, some crackers and a Welch's fruit snack packet.

Any one of those things together is probably okay (as you can see by the defensive snarking) but all together the lunch sucks. It's loaded with sugar -- there's jelly on the PBJ, lots of added sugar in the Gogurt, and fruit snacks are basically fruit flavored candy. The crackers are likely to be white flour, instead of whole grain. The only good thing in that lunch is the peanut butter and the milk.

The teacher was right.

Even if the lunch was less than ideal, what are you gaining by telling her YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! WRONG! SHAME! Make a few helpful suggestions and move on. Otherwise you're doing nothing other than working out your little anxieties on a stranger.

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christ, it's not like she sent the kid to school with a slim jim, doritos and a soda. The lunch was perfectly fine.

She sent PBJ, GoGurt, some crackers and a Welch's fruit snack packet.

Any one of those things together is probably okay (as you can see by the defensive snarking) but all together the lunch sucks. It's loaded with sugar -- there's jelly on the PBJ, lots of added sugar in the Gogurt, and fruit snacks are basically fruit flavored candy. The crackers are likely to be white flour, instead of whole grain. The only good thing in that lunch is the peanut butter and the milk.

The teacher was right.

I'm completely amused at the OMG! HORROR! at PB&Js in school lunches. (Who ARE these people?)

These are healthful options, assuming you're not sending Skippy on Wonder.

And if the kid's school is peanut-free, use Sunbutter. My kid has never noticed a difference.

Y'all need to un-hike your underwear and find something real to worry about.

Many of your kids likely throw this healthy stuff out and beg or trade off with their friends!

+1000

Many of your kids likely throw this healthy stuff out and beg or trade off with their friends!