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Anonymous wrote:sadly even the american school cafeteria lunch which is looked as low in comparison to the world is healthier than OP's packed lunch

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-2957301/What-school-lunches-look-like-world.html

Don't ever post links to The Daily Mail and pretend that it's a reliable news source.

Haha, I guarantee you that no school lunch looks like the ones shown in those pictures. I was a lunch lady in an elementary school cafeteria, so I have a lot of experience with what the "healthy" school lunches look like. You'd be amazed at the amount of waste every day. When I was a kid (1980s) there was a 50-50 chance that the school lunch was a good one. The stuff they serve now is nothing like it.

Op is capable of knowing what to pack for her child's lunch. With very young children, like ops daughter, the kids do a lot more talking and being in their classmates' business at lunch than they do eating. And, IME, if your child packs something very out of the ordinary, they are much less likely to eat it. It's the kids that have "normal food" (what everyone else is eating) that actually eat at lunch. So a PB&J is a pretty normal thing to pack for a first grader.

The way I see it for school lunch, I know my son is getting healthy foods at breakfast and dinner when he eats at home with his family, so if he eats a little bit of snack foods at school I'm ok with that. As long as he's not sitting at school hungry, I'm fine with some treats while he's at school. I'm not trying to impress anyone by sending sushi & zero sweets or crackers in his lunchbox, nobody's going to notice it anyways.

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Here is what I send for my 5 year old today:

Jolt Soda
Butter & Sugar on White Bread Sandwich
5-hour energy drink
Family Size bag of chips
Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls
Pixie sticks
and carrots with congealed bacon-fat grease for dipping

HA!! #FTW

I know who is stealing the snacks. It's the food police parents that think it's okay to impose themselves on everyone around them. You know them, the ones who have time to scan in nutritional information into an anonymous forum (also, they are identifiable because they think their 7 year old is fat because they are higher on the weight percentage than the height). There's your culprit!

Ok, I know it's ridiculous to compare our DCs' lives to our own when we were their ages, but:

From kindergarten through eighth grade, I had pretty much the same thing for lunch: PBJ (on white bread!), Utz potato chips, a fruit roll-up, two Oreo cookies, and a box of milk. Occasionally, I'd have a tuna sandwich instead of the PBJ. I was a thin, active child, who grew into a slim, active adult. I understand portion control and nutrition. My parents might not have had the best eating habits, but they taught me plenty, and what I didn't learn from them, I picked up later in life.

YMMV, but my kid can certainly have a PBJ (on whole wheat), a cookie, or some fruit snacks every now and then. He also gets plenty of healthier food, but I see nothing wrong with the above as "part of a balanced diet.@

Anonymous wrote:I think it is far more important that kids not go hungry than worry about restricting their food at lunch.

True but the school does a better job at providing a proper lunch

Anonymous wrote:sadly even the american school cafeteria lunch which is looked as low in comparison to the world is healthier than OP's packed lunch

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-2957301/What-school-lunches-look-like-world.html

Don't ever post links to The Daily Mail and pretend that it's a reliable news source.

I think it is far more important that kids not go hungry than worry about restricting their food at lunch.

sadly even the american school cafeteria lunch which is looked as low in comparison to the world is healthier than OP's packed lunch

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-2957301/What-school-lunches-look-like-world.html

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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.

http://cdn2.mommyish.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mean-mom-doing-loser-sign.jpg

Dammit. I got so caught up in Sanctimommy's bullshit that I forgot how to post a picture. Dammit. Better blame the fruit chews I ate...

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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.

http://cdn2.mommyish.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mean-mom-doing-loser-sign.jpg

Why do some people detest pb&j so much? I make it for my 3yo 4 days a week, or more. Whole wheat bread, Smuckers natural peanut butter, a little bit of lower-sugar jelly. The jelly is the only ingredient even half way unhealthy, and I use less than a serving size. What's wrong with this sandwich?

I don't know. It is a normal food in my house. But the objections probably are because it isn't gluten-free, carb-free, fat-free, and sugar-free. So you are feeding your child a gut-bomb of fatty, sugary, gluteny carbs! I'm calling the authorities.

If your child doesn't have body dysmorphia and an eating disorder by age 6, you are doing something wrong.

Why do some people detest pb&j so much? I make it for my 3yo 4 days a week, or more. Whole wheat bread, Smuckers natural peanut butter, a little bit of lower-sugar jelly. The jelly is the only ingredient even half way unhealthy, and I use less than a serving size. What's wrong with this sandwich?

Remember the thread about the mom who fired her nanny because the nanny fed her kids CANNED SOUP?

Oh, the horror.

Here is what I send for my 5 year old today:

Jolt Soda
Butter & Sugar on White Bread Sandwich
5-hour energy drink
Family Size bag of chips
Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls
Pixie sticks
and carrots with congealed bacon-fat grease for dipping

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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/

You are obsessed. Its kind of sick.

K and first are when some kids have poor impulse control. I went through a little stealing phase in 1st grade- I don't know why- except I wanted something that didn't belong to me, and I didn't really think it through.

I stopped entirely within about six months on my own (no one figured out that I was the 1st grade thief). No stealing or bad behavior after that. Stealing is unacceptable, but for this age it's within the normal range.