I'm kind of appalled...

odusgolp
odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
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Today was my first day volunteering in my son's cafeteria for lunch. I'm just there to help open containers, pick up spills, fetch the forgotten salt & ketchup, etc... This is a small private school where hot lunch is made by the women at church, generally not too shabby as far as nutrition goes, and a whopping $1.75.

Todays hot lunch was chicken breast sandwich, corn, applesauce, and dessert with milk.

One little girl's lunch (her zipper was stuck, so I opened it), was Applesauce, Dora Fruit Snacks, M&Ms, and a purple drink thingy. She's five. Pick up your game mom & dad and give your child some real food. If the child is packing their own lunch, they shouldn't be... There's a very off chance the child swapped lunch stuff, so I asked the teacher and she said it's like that daily.

I just judged. Yup. Sure did. Give your kid some real food.
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  • marypatmccue
    marypatmccue Posts: 521 Member
    Sounds like she's carb loading for a race tomorrow? Poor thing...
  • Carissa145
    Carissa145 Posts: 604 Member
    So true!
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    DOH.
  • corn63
    corn63 Posts: 1,580 Member
    You're so judgmental. HOW DARE YOU?
  • Alex_is_Hawks
    Alex_is_Hawks Posts: 3,499 Member
    her lunch was also much more than 1.75....

    so yeah. Parent fail there.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    I almost sent my kid to school with a ham sandwich on moldy bread this morning. That would have been awesome.
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    No protein?
  • candacet36
    candacet36 Posts: 353 Member
    and that is why American children are obese. So sad! I would do anything for my kids and not killing them with food is first on the list!
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Yikes! I mean, a PB&J would work fine. That is ridiculos and I'm all about people doing what they want. I judge, too.
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    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??
  • IanBee93
    IanBee93 Posts: 237 Member
    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. -.-
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    No protein?

    I don't know how she'll make it through her workout...
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    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??
    Antibiotics.
  • capnrus789
    capnrus789 Posts: 2,736 Member
    Sounds like how my kid would make his lunch. That's why I make it. PB&J, granola bar, actual fruit, fruit snacks, juice box. Could be better, but it's good enough.
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    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. -.-

    Nope. I enjoy having opinions. :flowerforyou:
  • pinkledoodledoo
    pinkledoodledoo Posts: 290 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.
  • dare2love81
    dare2love81 Posts: 928 Member
    Holy sugar, Batman! Eeks. I bet that poor child crashes mid afternoon, if not before then. Yikes.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Maybe the kid eats the sandwich before lunch...
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    Sounds like how my kid would make his lunch. That's why I make it. PB&J, granola bar, actual fruit, fruit snacks, juice box. Could be better, but it's good enough.

    That's a totally normal kid meal Cap *LOL*
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    No protein?

    I don't know how she'll make it through her workout...

    She needs it for muscle development. :P
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    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. -.-

    What if the kid wanted purple drank instead?

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  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    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??
    Antibiotics.

    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.
  • corn63
    corn63 Posts: 1,580 Member
    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.
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    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. -.-

    Uh, she didn't shove her nose into anyone else's business. Reading comprehension fail. What she is doing is just judging the parent. She isn't asking what she should do about it.
  • Hollywoodm55
    Hollywoodm55 Posts: 155 Member
    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.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Sounds like how my kid would make his lunch. That's why I make it. PB&J, granola bar, actual fruit, fruit snacks, juice box. Could be better, but it's good enough.
    A fruit snack and a purple drink is fine as ong as there's, you know, actual FOOD in there! I wonder how that poor little girl makes it through a day. All that sugar and no nutrition would have left me light-headed even at that age.
  • 1PatientBear
    1PatientBear Posts: 2,089 Member
    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.
  • mathera26
    mathera26 Posts: 90 Member
    her lunch was also much more than 1.75....

    so yeah. Parent fail there.

    So true!
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    Maybe the kid eats the sandwich before lunch...

    Perhaps before school, could be.
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    Sounds like how my kid would make his lunch. That's why I make it. PB&J, granola bar, actual fruit, fruit snacks, juice box. Could be better, but it's good enough.
    A fruit snack and a purple drink is fine as ong as there's, you know, actual FOOD in there! I wonder how that poor little girl makes it through a day. All that sugar and no nutrition would have left me light-headed even at that age.

    Yup, no issue with the actual snacks so long as there is some sort of balance in there.
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