I used to steal lunch snacks from other kids. In elementary school I used to talk this weak girl Lynne into giving me her snack, sharing with me, or using her money to buy a snack we (I) liked. In middle school I stole snacks, mostly from Jonathan, the mean boy whose locker was next to mine. When his mom sent him money to buy snacks instead of snacks themselves, I stole the money.

It wasn't that I was poor, or malnourished or anything. My mother was just super controlling. So while she had me make my own lunch each night for the following school day, she stood over me saying "Use more peanut butter" and "less jelly, MUCH less jelly!" until it had became a sandwich I wouldn't want to eat at all. Other kids were given 4-6 cookies. I was never allowed more than two. Other kids had multiple snacks. I couldn't even take a banana and pretzels. It was just pretzels and nothing else. My lunches sucked. Everyone else's didn't. That's why I stole.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD just started first grade and has came home for the past few days saying that some snacks in her lunch bag weren't packed, for example fruit snacks and cookies. I'm 100% positive that I've packed them and I even have DH double check her bag before he leaves in the morning. Yesterday afternoon she came home again saying that her snacks were missing and all she had was her PB&J and crackers! I'm horrid! I talked to the principal this morning and she says, oh this has happened before, but I'll talk to her teacher. Has anyone else been in this situation before? What did you do?

fruit snacks, cookies, PB&J, and crackers?

This sounds like a terribly sugar filled unhealthy lunch. I am surprised the school hasn't confiscated your DD's lunch and sent a letter to you.

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/family-meals/slideshow/25-quick-and-easy-school-lunches-to-pack-for-your-kids/?slide=1

FFS, don't you have anything better to do than to police other peoples' eating habits? Clearly not.

So here is her lunch, what do you think?

Fruit Snacks:
SUGAR, Artificial colors, no nutritional value, tons of carbs


Oreos:
SUGAR + FAT + Artifical falvors + bad fats, tons of carbs


PB&J
High in fats, sugar, filling low nutritional values
http://www.caloriesecrets.net/is-peanut-butter-and-jelly-good-for-you/

Crackers
Carbs, no nutritional value, too much salt, tons of carbs


Overall too much sugar, WAY too much salt, too many carbs, not vegetables and no healthy proteins.
Where are the veggies? Where is the good lean proteins? This is a terrible lunch and well contribute to an unhealthy craving for sugar, carbs and end up obese.

PP, go back to your thread about hating how your daughters are fat. Those daughters over there need to talk to you.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD just started first grade and has came home for the past few days saying that some snacks in her lunch bag weren't packed, for example fruit snacks and cookies. I'm 100% positive that I've packed them and I even have DH double check her bag before he leaves in the morning. Yesterday afternoon she came home again saying that her snacks were missing and all she had was her PB&J and crackers! I'm horrid! I talked to the principal this morning and she says, oh this has happened before, but I'll talk to her teacher. Has anyone else been in this situation before? What did you do?

fruit snacks, cookies, PB&J, and crackers?

This sounds like a terribly sugar filled unhealthy lunch. I am surprised the school hasn't confiscated your DD's lunch and sent a letter to you.

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/family-meals/slideshow/25-quick-and-easy-school-lunches-to-pack-for-your-kids/?slide=1

FFS, don't you have anything better to do than to police other peoples' eating habits? Clearly not.

So here is her lunch, what do you think?

Fruit Snacks:
SUGAR, Artificial colors, no nutritional value, tons of carbs


Oreos:
SUGAR + FAT + Artifical falvors + bad fats, tons of carbs


PB&J
High in fats, sugar, filling low nutritional values
http://www.caloriesecrets.net/is-peanut-butter-and-jelly-good-for-you/

Crackers
Carbs, no nutritional value, too much salt, tons of carbs


Overall too much sugar, WAY too much salt, too many carbs, not vegetables and no healthy proteins.
Where are the veggies? Where is the good lean proteins? This is a terrible lunch and well contribute to an unhealthy craving for sugar, carbs and end up obese.

You are an annoying turd

When I pack carrots for my kids, they are still sitting in the lunch box when it comes back home. The goldfish are gone, though.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not the PP who suggested subbing fruit for fruit snacks and carrots for
Other crap. I just want to point out that a meal with both fruit and carrots is not low carb. You only think it is because you eat a crappy diet.

Fruit is a simple carb that is processed as quickly as the fruit snacks. Kids need complex carbs to carry them through the rest of the day. They need grains and they need food that won't get tossed into the trash. Crackers and bread is fine, and so are cookies.

Good point about the fruit but fruit is still better than fruit snacks. It is also more nutritious, having fiber and vitamins. Fruit snacks have neither.

Carrot is a complex carb.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone really send shrimp in a lunchbox? That just seems like it's begging for trouble...

I have. I stick an icepack in the lunchbox when I pack it. Everything is still cold by lunchtime. I actually got the idea from DCUM!

Anonymous wrote:OP here. As far as I'm concerned, there isn't a policy on what can't be packed in lunches at her school. There are some good suggestions on how to resolve the issue. As for the food suggestions, some of them are ridiculous especially for a 6 year old! Sushi, come on! I don't ever bring sushi because of the possible smell.

I pack sushi for my kids' lunches. You can buy these Tupperware type small lunch containers where the top is a freezable ice pack, so it stays very cold. Good quality sushi doesn't smell.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD just started first grade and has came home for the past few days saying that some snacks in her lunch bag weren't packed, for example fruit snacks and cookies. I'm 100% positive that I've packed them and I even have DH double check her bag before he leaves in the morning. Yesterday afternoon she came home again saying that her snacks were missing and all she had was her PB&J and crackers! I'm horrid! I talked to the principal this morning and she says, oh this has happened before, but I'll talk to her teacher. Has anyone else been in this situation before? What did you do?

fruit snacks, cookies, PB&J, and crackers?

This sounds like a terribly sugar filled unhealthy lunch. I am surprised the school hasn't confiscated your DD's lunch and sent a letter to you.

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/family-meals/slideshow/25-quick-and-easy-school-lunches-to-pack-for-your-kids/?slide=1

Thanks for the laugh PP. Bon Appetit's suggestions are hysterical! Shrimp rolls! homemade sushi! So easy and fast! How about I make my kid a turkey and cheese sandwich, throw in a pouch of unsweetened apple sauce, a banana and call it a day. Have fun with your prepping your kid's pesto shrimp skewers. Bet those smell great after sitting around in the lunch box for a couple of hours...

The STENCH, lol.

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Anonymous wrote:There are so many freaks on here. There is nothing wrong with those snacks. Why waste your time spewing crap on this thread.

Go start a thread about how to make your own granola.

I hate hippies but I don't hate my kids so I would have a much healthier lunch than fruit snacks (basically candy), oreos (candy again), PB and J (barely nutritious).

If you can't see what's wrong with this picture you suck as a parent.

LOL get a life loser.

The only losers are the parens who send their kids to school with that crap

http://hollywoodlife.com/2012/08/28/honey-boo-boo-junk-food-diet-mom-june/

Anonymous wrote:News flash: If you pack your kid a low-fat low-carb lunch, they will be hungry enough to steal from their friends.

This.

We never experienced stealing, but when DS was in K and 1 kids would want to sit by him and ask, "can I have that...are you going to eat that...what about that?"
DS was and continues to be, years later, quite thin. In additional to some (likely acceptable) lunch items, we packed rice crispy treats (horrors, I know) and usually something else that was a lunch table favorite like cheddar bunnies.

Much of it went uneaten, but was disappearing at an alarming rate. We subsequently learned about the endless begging going on at the lunch table.
You are kidding yourselves if you don't think that kids are asking each other/taking food.

Sometimes when I would arrive at aftercare, I would be asked by kids for the leftover food or snacks in DS' lunch bag (and this was not a poor/starving issue but rather well-to-do kids who were not given enough or the right food at lunchtime by parents.)

Anonymous wrote:*If* someone in the class is stealing her snacks, I feel awful for that child, who is probably hungry and not getting enough to eat at home. If that turns out to be the case, I would let the school handle the disciplinary part of it (which I hope would just be talking to the 6 year old about reaching out for help when needed and not taking from others) and I would see if there was a way to donate snacks to the school for kids who don't have enough (when free/reduced lunch doesn't cover snack time).

This. My first thought was also that a very hungry child might be taking them.

If you aren't packing palatable food for your kids, they are stealing it from someone else. You would really rather them steal or go hungry than pack a cookie or two?

Anonymous wrote:I am not the PP who suggested subbing fruit for fruit snacks and carrots for
Other crap. I just want to point out that a meal with both fruit and carrots is not low carb. You only think it is because you eat a crappy diet.

Fruit is a simple carb that is processed as quickly as the fruit snacks. Kids need complex carbs to carry them through the rest of the day. They need grains and they need food that won't get tossed into the trash. Crackers and bread is fine, and so are cookies.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD just started first grade and has came home for the past few days saying that some snacks in her lunch bag weren't packed, for example fruit snacks and cookies. I'm 100% positive that I've packed them and I even have DH double check her bag before he leaves in the morning. Yesterday afternoon she came home again saying that her snacks were missing and all she had was her PB&J and crackers! I'm horrid! I talked to the principal this morning and she says, oh this has happened before, but I'll talk to her teacher. Has anyone else been in this situation before? What did you do?

fruit snacks, cookies, PB&J, and crackers?

This sounds like a terribly sugar filled unhealthy lunch. I am surprised the school hasn't confiscated your DD's lunch and sent a letter to you.

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/family-meals/slideshow/25-quick-and-easy-school-lunches-to-pack-for-your-kids/?slide=1

Thanks for the laugh PP. Bon Appetit's suggestions are hysterical! Shrimp rolls! homemade sushi! So easy and fast! How about I make my kid a turkey and cheese sandwich, throw in a pouch of unsweetened apple sauce, a banana and call it a day. Have fun with your prepping your kid's pesto shrimp skewers. Bet those smell great after sitting around in the lunch box for a couple of hours...

Here's a fabulous response to the Bon Appetit suggestions:

http://momswhohatepinterest.me/4267528-13093421

These are hilarious!!!!!

I thought the ham and cheese quesadillas looked good (even with the mustard), but the other comments were awesome.

And are we doomed to have that poster who's obsessed with how crappy peanut butter is on every post about lunches? 'Cause I get it, lady, you don't like peanut butter. Given that nuts are a recommended source of healthy fat and protein, I don't really know what your beef is, but whatever, can you just post once on a thread and then stop?

peanut butter is not a problem per say, it's the combination of garbage above. Maybe instead of fruit snacks apple slices or orange, instead of crackers how about some cheese or carrot sticks etc... the entire lunch seems full of pre-processed carbs, sugar and bad fats.

Your prescribed low-carb lunch will leave your kid hungry all day. Save it for yourself, not a growing child who needs energy.

I wonder about this.

My child's lunch is 1/2 way between obese/process mom and hippy/freak mom. Call me moderate mom.

But I do pick my kid up every day and she's hungry. She gets a turkey sandwich (with provolone) on homemade bread. An apple, cheese slices, a granola bar and fruit snacks. What am I doing wrong?

She gets a snack at school.

Ask her if she is really eating all of that food or if some of it winds up in the trash. It's actually a lot of food to eat at once. I used to put extra food in my kids' lunches because I thought it wasn't enough and they asked me to stop. My middle school boys get a ham and cheese sandwich, a bag of pretzels, and three Oreos (shut up). Yes, there is no fruit or veg because they tell me they toss it out when I include it. They don't get a snack but obviously they come home pretty hungry. My 3rd grader gets a ham and cheese sandwich and three Oreos. He asked me not to include anything else, however I do provide a snack for him to eat late morning - a bag of Goldfish crackers. He's not too hungry after school because of his very late lunchtime.

There is nothing wrong w/ a few oreos the combination of items is the issue. Why not throw is some vege chips or something else. Your kids need fruits and vegetables

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article24780766.html

http://www.letsmove.gov/blog/2015/03/06/two-million-students-eating-more-fruit-and-veggies-school-salad-bars-every-day-let%E2%80%99s

I am not the PP who suggested subbing fruit for fruit snacks and carrots for
Other crap. I just want to point out that a meal with both fruit and carrots is not low carb. You only think it is because you eat a crappy diet.