My 8th grader is 6’3/190, he eats at least 2 school lunches a day. He first goes through the salad bar and sandwich building stations. He then hits the hot lunch station once the line dies down. Sometimes he goes back for seconds on that or gets soup or a yogurt parfait.

He goes to a private school where the lunch is free (just the first one though). But, the lunches at our school are catered and good, so the pearl clutchers packing their kid’s brown bag each morning can pipe down about how he’s neglected.

Anonymous wrote:No idea, but mine will eat next to nothing during the school day (whether purchased or packed), they may eat a protein bar or something from their backpack. They instead come home and eat nonstop, multiple meals etc in the late afternoon and evening. Enormous quantities of food. Along with a light breakfast. Growing fine, so different strokes. I would probably be fine with the double lunches.

+1 I’d love for him to buy two or even 3 school lunches 😂
FWIW, portions are pretty small. Some of the meals are actually pretty good, sometimes I buy the empanadas with black beans, plantains and cucumber salad or a couple other ones. The quality is not nearly as bad or processed as some of the people on here say.

No idea, but mine will eat next to nothing during the school day (whether purchased or packed), they may eat a protein bar or something from their backpack. They instead come home and eat nonstop, multiple meals etc in the late afternoon and evening. Enormous quantities of food. Along with a light breakfast. Growing fine, so different strokes. I would probably be fine with the double lunches.

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Anonymous wrote:Here we go. OP asked a specific question. Pretty sure she and her daughter, over the many years of education they’ve managed together, have realized that bringing lunch to school is an option.

Yes, my kid does this and I work at a school and see the lunch portions. They are very small.

Through the many years of education we’ve managed together, we’ve learned that taking lunch to school is an option. Kid does not select this option, while my other kid does.

So why wouldn’t you bring a lunch? Especially if school portions aren’t enough food?

NP, but based on my kids I’m guessing that the kid doesn’t leave enough time in the morning to make their lunch and doesn’t want to do it the night before. My kids don’t particularly love school lunch but they like making a lunch even less, and I’m not packing a lunch for a 12 year old so it’s on them to do it.

You’d rather they are the crap school lunch than make them a lunch because they’re 12?
My kid is 11 and I make her lunch. I’m making mine for work anyway so no extra work to make hers. A lot of this time I make it at the same time as dinner the night before

Yes, they are 12, an age where they need to learn to do low stakes things for themselves. No one is starving, they don’t like the school lunch they are welcome to make one and bring it.

Way to go lazy parent! Now your kid can eat processed gross food because you refuse to help them out with a packed lunch. Horrible parenting.

You can yell into the ether about it being horrible parenting but that doesn’t make it so. You’re teaching your 12 year old to be lazy and spoiled if you’re continuing to pack their lunch for them like they are in Kindergarten.

You both sound insane. It’s fine to have your kid pack his own lunch at 12 and it’s also fine to do it for him. My Dad packed my lunch every day in high school, and it didn’t make me lazy and spoiled. I just appreciated it and he was proud of how good my lunches were every day.

In middle school my DC was buying food for a kid who was on a “diet,”; he apparently felt like he was starving so my DC bought him some food. I explained why this was not a good idea and he ceased, but you might also want to see if something like that is going on. A friend of mine also apparently inadvertently supplied napkins for her DD’s friend for almost a year until the other mother figured it out.

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Anonymous wrote:Hi DS is 13 and often gets two lunches at school bc one is not enough.
Also it’s no one else’s business if we do school lunch vs home lunch. I work full time and packing a lunch was a big stress for me. Please don’t judge others who make different choices.

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Anonymous wrote:Here we go. OP asked a specific question. Pretty sure she and her daughter, over the many years of education they’ve managed together, have realized that bringing lunch to school is an option.

Yes, my kid does this and I work at a school and see the lunch portions. They are very small.

Through the many years of education we’ve managed together, we’ve learned that taking lunch to school is an option. Kid does not select this option, while my other kid does.

So why wouldn’t you bring a lunch? Especially if school portions aren’t enough food?

NP, but based on my kids I’m guessing that the kid doesn’t leave enough time in the morning to make their lunch and doesn’t want to do it the night before. My kids don’t particularly love school lunch but they like making a lunch even less, and I’m not packing a lunch for a 12 year old so it’s on them to do it.

You’d rather they are the crap school lunch than make them a lunch because they’re 12?
My kid is 11 and I make her lunch. I’m making mine for work anyway so no extra work to make hers. A lot of this time I make it at the same time as dinner the night before

Yes, they are 12, an age where they need to learn to do low stakes things for themselves. No one is starving, they don’t like the school lunch they are welcome to make one and bring it.

Way to go lazy parent! Now your kid can eat processed gross food because you refuse to help them out with a packed lunch. Horrible parenting.

You can yell into the ether about it being horrible parenting but that doesn’t make it so. You’re teaching your 12 year old to be lazy and spoiled if you’re continuing to pack their lunch for them like they are in Kindergarten.

I pack my high schoolers lunch daily. They leave for school at 7 PM and sometimes don't get home till 10-11 depending on the day and have 1-2 activities and homework/studying. They can cook, they cook for all of us and help when they can but nothing wrong with helping your kid and making their lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:Here we go. OP asked a specific question. Pretty sure she and her daughter, over the many years of education they’ve managed together, have realized that bringing lunch to school is an option.

Yes, my kid does this and I work at a school and see the lunch portions. They are very small.

Through the many years of education we’ve managed together, we’ve learned that taking lunch to school is an option. Kid does not select this option, while my other kid does.

So why wouldn’t you bring a lunch? Especially if school portions aren’t enough food?

NP, but based on my kids I’m guessing that the kid doesn’t leave enough time in the morning to make their lunch and doesn’t want to do it the night before. My kids don’t particularly love school lunch but they like making a lunch even less, and I’m not packing a lunch for a 12 year old so it’s on them to do it.

You’d rather they are the crap school lunch than make them a lunch because they’re 12?
My kid is 11 and I make her lunch. I’m making mine for work anyway so no extra work to make hers. A lot of this time I make it at the same time as dinner the night before

Yes, they are 12, an age where they need to learn to do low stakes things for themselves. No one is starving, they don’t like the school lunch they are welcome to make one and bring it.

Way to go lazy parent! Now your kid can eat processed gross food because you refuse to help them out with a packed lunch. Horrible parenting.

You can yell into the ether about it being horrible parenting but that doesn’t make it so. You’re teaching your 12 year old to be lazy and spoiled if you’re continuing to pack their lunch for them like they are in Kindergarten.

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Anonymous wrote:Hi DS is 13 and often gets two lunches at school bc one is not enough.
Also it’s no one else’s business if we do school lunch vs home lunch. I work full time and packing a lunch was a big stress for me. Please don’t judge others who make different choices.

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Two isn't an option. Kid is at private where we pay in advance. Food is actually pretty good but they can't get 2.

Anonymous wrote:Hi DS is 13 and often gets two lunches at school bc one is not enough.
Also it’s no one else’s business if we do school lunch vs home lunch. I work full time and packing a lunch was a big stress for me. Please don’t judge others who make different choices.

+1 I’m a SAHM and packing is also a big stress for us. Plus my kids like the hot lunches. I am grateful they have the option.

Anonymous wrote:Not a big deal Op. And apparently, kids do it.

NP and it gets expensive with all of the possible add ons for not a lot a food. My kids were buying 2 lunches plus extras in mid elementary. It’s too much much for not a lot of food. My now 7th grader brings and has money on her account if she ever forgets her lunch or wants more. Sometimes she buys the lunch in addition to what she brings from home and she’s a small girl.

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Anonymous wrote:Here we go. OP asked a specific question. Pretty sure she and her daughter, over the many years of education they’ve managed together, have realized that bringing lunch to school is an option.

Yes, my kid does this and I work at a school and see the lunch portions. They are very small.

Through the many years of education we’ve managed together, we’ve learned that taking lunch to school is an option. Kid does not select this option, while my other kid does.

So why wouldn’t you bring a lunch? Especially if school portions aren’t enough food?

NP, but based on my kids I’m guessing that the kid doesn’t leave enough time in the morning to make their lunch and doesn’t want to do it the night before. My kids don’t particularly love school lunch but they like making a lunch even less, and I’m not packing a lunch for a 12 year old so it’s on them to do it.

You’d rather they are the crap school lunch than make them a lunch because they’re 12?
My kid is 11 and I make her lunch. I’m making mine for work anyway so no extra work to make hers. A lot of this time I make it at the same time as dinner the night before

Yes, they are 12, an age where they need to learn to do low stakes things for themselves. No one is starving, they don’t like the school lunch they are welcome to make one and bring it.

Way to go lazy parent! Now your kid can eat processed gross food because you refuse to help them out with a packed lunch. Horrible parenting.

I can’t pay my kids to buy lunch. Not since like 3rd grade.

Anonymous wrote:Hi DS is 13 and often gets two lunches at school bc one is not enough.
Also it’s no one else’s business if we do school lunch vs home lunch. I work full time and packing a lunch was a big stress for me. Please don’t judge others who make different choices.

Hello, are you new to DCUM?

Ask people if you allow your redshirted child's pitbull mix to wear shoes in the house.