I'm kind of appalled...
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That lunch sounds delicious.0
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Aw that's sad. I try so hard to make my kids cute little bento lunches with the sandwiches cut into shapes, and different little decorations, but it doesn't have to be that hard.
I have to say though my husband was sending a can of chef boyardee to daycare when I overslept a few times.......not even opened.
*LMAO* I'm sorry, but that made me giggle
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Cold pasta is nummy.
Antibiotics.I almost sent my kid to school with a ham sandwich on moldy bread this morning. That would have been awesome.
Surely mold has some value??
Good point. Should have let her take it. Instead she took left over spaghetti with the understanding that it'd be cold when she ate it. She says the lines are too long to buy lunch.
And the suggestins that she's getting nutrition and home or eating the sandwich before lunch are what hopefully is happening. I can't imagine there's no nutritious food she'd eat, though. Even picky eaters will eat something that's "real."0 -
I bet the kids mom was Goldie Hawn in Overboard.0
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Maybe the kid eats the sandwich before lunch...
This could be true.
I remember when I was in grammar school I was having lunch and the dessert was vanilla pudding. I LOVE vanilla pudding and I wanted to eat it before my meal and the lunch aid came yelled at me for it.
Thinking back now I wonder if she said "If you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!":laugh: 0 -
I bet the kids mom was Goldie Hawn in Overboard.
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I love that movie.0 -
I feel like there's TV show in there somewhere....
....oh wait...Jamie Olivers Food Revolution.0 -
Poor kid, she can't be doing well in school with that kind of food. No nurishment for the body, no nurishment for the brain either...0
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Stop worrying about what people do with THEIR kids. I hate when people shove their unwanted noses in other people's business. If a kid wants to have a purple drink, let them. -.-
There is nothing wrong with a purple drink thing, but fruit snacks, candy and applesauce? that is not a substantial lunch.
what food groups does that even cover? "fruit", sugar and sugar.
and by no means am I against sugar.. I love it.. but a parent does owe it to their child to give them a little balance in their diets.0 -
I bet the kids mom was Goldie Hawn in Overboard.
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I love that movie.
One of the best ever! My wife had never seen it until 2 years ago, and now it is her favorite.0 -
Stop worrying about what people do with THEIR kids. I hate when people shove their unwanted noses in other people's business. If a kid wants to have a purple drink, let them. -.-
On the bright side, I'm sure your kid was very cute. Rght OP?0 -
Maybe the kid is a stubborn one, and won't eat anything that is good, and was failint to thrive, and the family decided it was better to send junk than to send stuff she wouldn't eat anyway, and have her have no calories?
I've seen that happen before.0 -
My daughter just started school, and her lunch box daily consists of the following -
sandwich (either PB&J or meat & cheese)
yogurt or go-gurt
applesauce, fruit cup, piece of fruit, or pudding (she mostly chooses the applesauce or fruit)
juice box or pouch (occasionally she will take money with to get milk instead)
some form of a snack (snack bag of chips, fruit snack, cookie(s), snack size of candy, etc.)
Her lunch box is for lunch as well as an afternoon snack. Typically if she has something left in her lunchbox, it's a snack item.
Her hot lunch option is $2.65, and the milk is $0.45. I look for items on sale, and involve her in the choices of items. She's a pretty healthy eater overall, so I don't mind letting her have some snack(s).0 -
I know it's no excuse for that kind of lunch to be in a 5 year old's bag but maybe she's a very picky eater and the parents decided that instead of subjecting the entire cafeteria to screaming and hissy fits over a real lunch they'd just give her what she wants at school and make her eat healthy at breakfast & dinner where they're the only ones that have to deal with it.
Kind of where my head was at when I read this... I've seen some pretty "questionable" lunches given to kids and while it's easy to just paint mom and dad as *kitten*, the entire story is seldom known.
My question would be, if the teacher or other lady in the lunch room says it is this way all the time (most likely with a puppy dog face or an eye roll) ... has she ever followed up with the parents as to WHY... or did she instead crab to a group on the net about it??? :huh: curious.0 -
Poor kid, she can't be doing well in school with that kind of food. No nurishment for the body, no nurishment for the brain either...
The brain runs on glucose. Sounds like lots of nourishment for the brain. The body is what's suffering.0 -
Stop worrying about what people do with THEIR kids. I hate when people shove their unwanted noses in other people's business. If a kid wants to have a purple drink, let them. -.-
On the bright side, I'm sure your kid was very cute. Rght OP?
He was embarrassed of my existence, naturally *LOL*0 -
When my daughter went to a private elementary school, they actually stressed health and nutrition and it was their policy to inspect lunches to make sure each child had an appropriate lunch if they weren't purchasing one.0
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her lunch was also much more than 1.75....
so yeah. Parent fail there.
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I know it's no excuse for that kind of lunch to be in a 5 year old's bag but maybe she's a very picky eater and the parents decided that instead of subjecting the entire cafeteria to screaming and hissy fits over a real lunch they'd just give her what she wants at school and make her eat healthy at breakfast & dinner where they're the only ones that have to deal with it.
Kind of where my head was at when I read this... I've seen some pretty "questionable" lunches given to kids and while it's easy to just paint mom and dad as *kitten*, the entire story is seldom known.
My question would be, if the teacher or other lady in the lunch room says it is this way all the time (most likely with a puppy dog face or an eye roll) ... has she ever followed up with the parents as to WHY... or did she instead crab to a group on the net about it??? :huh: curious.
No, it's not my business to follow up with this kid's parents as to why her lunch is like this. It's my place to chat on the internet and make conversation about M&Ms and Dora Snacks 0 -
I know it's no excuse for that kind of lunch to be in a 5 year old's bag but maybe she's a very picky eater and the parents decided that instead of subjecting the entire cafeteria to screaming and hissy fits over a real lunch they'd just give her what she wants at school and make her eat healthy at breakfast & dinner where they're the only ones that have to deal with it.
my thoughts, I'd send my kids with sand which, fruit, a treat and a 100% juicy juice box, and the sand which would get stuffed back in their backpack until the end of the week...wasn't very pleasant to find, and plus I hate waste...so I ended up just not packing the sand which and sent the fruit snack and treat and juice...but they ate a good breakfast, and supper. So as I a parent, I just learned to pick my battles...0 -
Stop worrying about what people do with THEIR kids. I hate when people shove their unwanted noses in other people's business. If a kid wants to have a purple drink, let them. -.-
You can't figure out how to change your gender that you erroneously put on your profile. Your opinion is not valid here.
That is way too funny!0 -
Some kids on the autism spectrum (mine included) have a real aversion to certain foods because of texture, color, or looks. My kid just started eating Lunchables this year. Yeah, they’re loaded with sodium; but I actually teared up a little seeing him eat something besides a jelly sandwich for lunch. His food choices would make most people here cringe and shake their finger at me, but believe me; it’s a struggle to get him to eat new things. He won’t eat pizza, ice cream, or chips; so it’s not just healthy foods he won’t eat either.0
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Stop worrying about what people do with THEIR kids. I hate when people shove their unwanted noses in other people's business. If a kid wants to have a purple drink, let them. -.-
Everyone knows that red drink is far superior. Right? Back me up on this Rock...0 -
should have never given her that junk to begin with then she wouldn't be a "picky eater" picking terrible things to eat. Ridiculous.0
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Stop worrying about what people do with THEIR kids. I hate when people shove their unwanted noses in other people's business. If a kid wants to have a purple drink, let them. -.-
Go have a kid or two, then come back and try to sit at the grown up table. Until then, OP is dead on right.
No she/he is not, they' can't mind their own business. If I had a kid I would give them a sandwich and a snack. If I saw some other kid with junk food I'd mind my own business, assuming they might have a proper breakfast/dinner at home?? Pretty sure you made mistakes before so stop acting all high and mighty. Isn't that why you're even on this site? >.>0 -
I shudder to think what my DD's lunch would look like if we left it to her.
I hope that she had simply already eaten other parts of her lunch for a snack - like the fruit snacks could have been intended for her "snack" but she choose to eat her sandwich and an apple at snack time, maybe?
It is sad to see when kids get less than nutritious lunches from home, especially since the school option is cheaper in this instance.0 -
Spoken by someone who has never truly known or been a picky eater.should have never given her that junk to begin with then she wouldn't be a "picky eater" picking terrible things to eat. Ridiculous.0 -
Holy Batwings! Her last teacher must have so much fun with hyper sugar child. Zoiks!0
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Some kids on the autism spectrum (mine included) have a real aversion to certain foods because of texture, color, or looks. My kid just started eating Lunchables this year. Yeah, they’re loaded with sodium; but I actually teared up a little seeing him eat something besides a jelly sandwich for lunch. His food choices would make most people here cringe and shake their finger at me, but believe me; it’s a struggle to get him to eat new things. He won’t eat pizza, ice cream, or chips; so it’s not just healthy foods he won’t eat either.
That's totally different and understandable... you do what you have to do as a parent, and you decide what's best for your kids.
Who knows? Maybe the girl ate other items in her bag before school. (I'd question breakfast then, but whatever). Maybe she's a breakfast and dinner only kid and the parents give up that lunch battle. There could be many things going on here (short of a disability). But I stand by the $1.75 hot lunch *LOL*0 -
I know it's no excuse for that kind of lunch to be in a 5 year old's bag but maybe she's a very picky eater and the parents decided that instead of subjecting the entire cafeteria to screaming and hissy fits over a real lunch they'd just give her what she wants at school and make her eat healthy at breakfast & dinner where they're the only ones that have to deal with it.
Kind of where my head was at when I read this... I've seen some pretty "questionable" lunches given to kids and while it's easy to just paint mom and dad as *kitten*, the entire story is seldom known.
My question would be, if the teacher or other lady in the lunch room says it is this way all the time (most likely with a puppy dog face or an eye roll) ... has she ever followed up with the parents as to WHY... or did she instead crab to a group on the net about it??? :huh: curious.
No, it's not my business to follow up with this kid's parents as to why her lunch is like this. It's my place to chat on the internet and make conversation about M&Ms and Dora Snacks
:laugh: :laugh: Well then I'd say everyone's doing a GREAT job! :drinker: Carry on!
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