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  • Posts: 194 Member
    Feels like high school to me.
  • Posts: 237 Member
    Why is there so much anger in here? Stop for a minute. Yes, we all know kids like to eat garbage food, but if that is what the kid was getting regularly even my 7 year old would bring it up to me. He'd probably even ask her why she doesn't eat any healthy food. It is OUR responsibility to teach our children how to eat! How will this child eat when she grows up? Hmmm? Probably not going to make the immediate switch to lean proteins and vegetables when she heads off to college.

    It's your responsibility for your own kid. Christ sake. ''Why you never eat anything healthy''? Do you even know how insulting that sounds? You teach your kids to say things like that? Shame on you. Also a lot of people I know in college ate like normal people growing up, and then ate junk food and gained weight when they lived on their own. So not everything is black and white.
  • Posts: 10,477 Member
    It's possible there was a sandwich or something of more nutritional value and it was eaten at snack time. My son used to get hungry at snack and eat some, if not all, of his lunch. I wonder what they said about me when my son would sit there with no lunch. :(

    There is no snack time, but as it was pointed out, she could have eaten something before school. Very true and a very valid argument.
  • Posts: 1,893 Member

    Oh, you are SO wrong there... I am, in fact, flawless.

    Hey, why is one boob higher than the other?
  • Posts: 10,477 Member

    You asked the teacher if this child's lunch is "normal"? Who the hell are you to ask a teacher about another child? If I was this poor child's mother you and i would have serious issues. Who are you to judge another parent or to discuss it with the teacher? I am appalled by YOUR actions. Disgusting.

    Good for you :)
  • Posts: 228 Member
    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.

    Yeah, right. Those parents are not dealing with it at home. :laugh:
  • Posts: 10,477 Member

    Hey, why is one boob higher than the other?


    :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

    Maybe they didn't know!?
  • Posts: 237 Member
    I'm a picky eater and all of you are hypocrites, and pissing me off :explode:
  • Posts: 194 Member

    Oh, you are SO wrong there... I am, in fact, flawless.

    Flawless and yet on a weight loss website ;)
  • Posts: 34,415 Member

    EXACTLY what I was going to say...thanks Ariel! :flowerforyou:

    MFP has taught me well that judging others is *never* acceptable...

    ...unless those "others" are judging others, and then it's completely fine...admirable, even.


    (Likewise, body shaming is *never* acceptable...

    ...unless the target is "fit" people.)
  • Posts: 770 Member

    Seriously, you think the kid couldn't read your expression? You think she didn't notice you talking to the other adults about it? Kids aren't stupid.

    So... she should have avoided looking at the lunch bag she was opening, so that she wouldn't think about the contents of the lunch... so that she would be completely expressionless... and then she should have avoided talking to any adults after talking to the child...

    ...and that would have avoided embarrassing or traumatizing the kid?

    Great solution.
  • Posts: 172 Member
    The issue is, there's no main food. It's just fruit snacks, apple sauce, and a sugary drink. Yes, I'm going to judge. Chances are, whoever packed that lunch doesn't care anyway what people think. Including what teachers think at her child's school. There should have been protein of some sort - peanut butter, lunchmeat, SOMETHING.
  • Posts: 16,414 Member
    Everything in moderation is ok. My kids are allowed junk food on Friday night movie night, my sister never allows her kids junk food. When her boys get it they over indulge, mine never over indulge. Maybe there is something to be said about everything in moderation eh? Just my opinion.
    It's kind of funny that someone thinks if she doesn't give her kid M&Ms her kid will never get M&Ms.
  • Posts: 6,256 Member

    Oh, so is that why you have a high then a crash when you have nothing but sugar for a snack? You can't tell me that that kid can focus after she has crashed...

    I don't. I do when I eat a high carb lunch, but that's a different story. The brain still runs on strictly glucose. There is nourishment. It's your endocrine system that is messing you up when you have this problem.
  • Posts: 10,477 Member

    Flawless and yet on a weight loss website ;)

    1. This isn't a weight loss website.
    2. Your sarcasm meter is broken.
  • Posts: 1,741 Member
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  • Posts: 8,646 Member

    You asked the teacher if this child's lunch is "normal"? Who the hell are you to ask a teacher about another child? If I was this poor child's mother you and i would have serious issues. Who are you to judge another parent or to discuss it with the teacher? I am appalled by YOUR actions. Disgusting.

    Throughout this thread the irony has just been monumental. It's downright comical how many posters are judging the OP for judging someone else.

    I love people.
  • Posts: 34,415 Member

    Only if they know it's an issue.... people talking behind other peoples' backs solve NOTHING. Bringing it to the parents' attention, or asking questions of HOW TO HELP the situation is what gets things solved.

    Huh? Awareness and discussion are not part of the solution process??? Egads. What an incredibly simplistic world in which you must live.
  • Posts: 16,414 Member

    thank you for proving my point...they started eating meat again...not junk food....
    I did not proove your point. I pointed out that a truly, truly, TRULY picky eater will not eat someothing he or she does not like rather than go hungry. I never -- even still -- had a problem with feeling hungry. I actually quite like the feeling of hunger.
  • Posts: 1,893 Member

    just curious do you have kids? What is the proper lunch for kids? how do you accomplish it on a budget? Just curious

    None of that stuff is cheaper than a peanut butter sammich......

    Oh, and I have 3, since you asked.


    Sammich's....not kids. Eww.
  • Posts: 12,950 Member
    When I have a kid... if...

    I'm going to send that kid to school with the weirdest stuff.

    Duck rillettes with a baugette, figs, some home made coppa, mustard and some sauteed carrots.

    Not a single kid would want to trade, and it would blow the pants off anything the school had. Boom.
  • Posts: 34,415 Member
    So what you're saying us you're opinionated?

    Was the child obese? If not, then keep it to yourself. YOU ARE NOT THE PERFECT PARENT

    And now the *only* criteria for appropriate nutrition is obesity?

    If obese = yes then problem else no problem???

    *sigh*

    Oh, MFP, don't ever change. Don't. Ever. Change.
  • Posts: 194 Member

    1. This isn't a weight loss website.
    2. Your sarcasm meter is broken.

    I wasn't being sarcastic. Seems like the majority on this website are here to lose weight. I'll stick to my original classification.
  • Posts: 38 Member
    Well there may be some penicillin on that moldy bread. LOL
  • Posts: 85 Member
    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.

    This is not to say I advocate the force-feeding of little ones, but the idea of allowing them to choose what they will and will not eat seems a little ridiculous to me. When I was five, my "choice" would have been a chocolate bar every single time! Thank goodness my Mom made me eat real food, whether I liked it or not.

    Back in my day, picky eaters weren't rewarded with candy lunches and applause for trying their best, they sat at the table until they ate every last morsel of (now cold) food that was put in front of them. Or, they went to bed hungry -- entirely their choice. Give it a try sometime... If they get hungry enough, they'll eat those peas. Guaranteed.

    We didn't throw hissy fits back in my day, either... Kids used to be afraid of pissing their parents off.
  • Posts: 1,653 Member

    Her lunch today: Cheese stick (according to her they taste different then real cheese)

    True story. I also said this when I was a youngin'. My mother, to this day, will not believe me that there is a difference.
  • Posts: 7,490 Member
    I dont care about what the child is eating. Matter of fact, my parents were vegan for the first 5 years of my life, then vegetarian. As a child i wasn't allowed "junk food". My mom would make us "kool-aid" to drink which was a pitcher of water with the 5cent flavor packet and NO sweetner. It was like colored water and disgusting. I didn't have a soda until i was 14, i didnt have cake and ice cream at my birthdays until i was 10 and even then... i had it ONCE a year.

    When she married someone else who decided to eat meat both she, my sister, and stepdad would prepare meals that i couldn't eat at all. I dont have the enzymes to digest meat, actually. If i accidentally eat meat i get viciously ill. This turned into me not eating more than 300 calories a day and a terrible case of anorexia. I felt like i was being punished and forced not to eat and i wouldn't let them have the satisfaction of controlling what i ate.

    When i moved out at age 16 and i could actually eat whatever i wanted, i did. This pretty much resulted in the weight gain i joined MFP to lose. My eating habits became crap because i had been deprived of so much "tasty junk food" as a child. A 12 pack of coca-cola, taco bell, cheese pizza and a pint of ben n jerrys in one day? Sure, why not!

    I think there definitely needs to be a balance. Don't deprive your chidlren of "junk food", instead teach them why they dont need it. Let them make the decision for themselves (after all, they may be young but they are still THEIR OWN PERSON and a HUMAN BEING capable of free will) to eat healthier alternatives.
  • Posts: 7,173 Member

    You asked the teacher if this child's lunch is "normal"? Who the hell are you to ask a teacher about another child? If I was this poor child's mother you and i would have serious issues. Who are you to judge another parent or to discuss it with the teacher? I am appalled by YOUR actions. Disgusting.

    Um...a lot of school officials would probably question this, as nutrition is something most schools strive to teach to children. It's plastered all over school lunch menus & what not.
  • Posts: 317 Member

    1. This isn't a weight loss website.
    2. Your sarcasm meter is broken.

    MyFITNESSPal. *highfive*
  • Posts: 34,415 Member

    Flawless and yet on a weight loss website ;)

    Excuse me, but on a WHAT?!? website?

    (Or did I accidentally log on to MWP again?)
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