Teacher says Pop Tarts are not a healthy snack
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WinoGelato wrote: »14 pages of going around in circles and no one has brought up the best way to eat a pop tart?
YUMMMM!
That should read, "Poptarts Ice Cream Sandwich, though. Which would instantly make it very, very bad.
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »Confession time... I have never eaten a PopTart. After 14 pages telling me they are the food of the devil, I now want to eat an entire box of them. Which flavours are the best?
Frosted Brown Sugar and Cinnamon.
Frosted Strawberry is a close 2nd.1 -
cathydubepenner wrote: »My last post on this absurdity. Why with all the choices in the world, would you want to argue about the validity of feeding your child a food like product loaded with xenoestrogens, Yellow #5, Red 40 and TBHQ????? If you don't know what these are, then I suggest you google it. If these even a hint of a problem with a food why would you risk a loved one's health? Then there's the bigger picture of teaching our children bad choices from good. It's our responsibility to be the adult and learn to say no to some things and offer a choice from better options. The end, I'm done, ultimately it's your family's well being you're impacting.
Do you want eating disorders?
Because that's how you get eating disorders.
/Archer
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I suppose if one was out on a long trail, or at Everest Base Camp, and burning 4000 + calories per day, Pop Tarts would be an OK part of a 'balanced diet'...
Thoughts?2 -
BruinsGal_91 wrote: »Confession time... I have never eaten a PopTart. After 14 pages telling me they are the food of the devil, I now want to eat an entire box of them. Which flavours are the best?
Unfrosted blueberry, toasted with butter. It is awesome!!! The poptarts ice cream sandwich looks pretty tasty too.0 -
The level of unadulterated woo and holier than thou judgement of a parent based on snack choice in this thread makes me sad.
This is why the "mean people" on MFP keep speaking up. Because there are so many people who honestly believe an occasional "processed" snack will kill you. Because there are so many people who believe it's healthy to be scared of food. Because there are so many who believe they are better, more virtuous people because they eat "clean". To the point that they would consider teaching a child that an occasional sweet treat is fine in the context of a healthy diet is child abuse. SMH. Scary stuff.13 -
The level of unadulterated woo and holier than thou judgement of a parent based on snack choice in this thread makes me sad.
This is why the "mean people" on MFP keep speaking up. Because there are so many people who honestly believe an occasional "processed" snack will kill you. Because there are so many people who believe it's healthy to be scared of food. Because there are so many who believe they are better, more virtuous people because they eat "clean". To the point that they would consider teaching a child that an occasional sweet treat is fine in the context of a healthy diet is child abuse. SMH. Scary stuff.
You don't have to teach a child that anything is fine or not fine to teach them to follow directions. And that seems to be the biggest point IMO. The teacher said don't bring pop-tarts as a snack. So ... don't bring them. Period. End of story.
Teachers deal with enough crap without every parent with a dieting beef choosing school as a place to get up on a soapbox.6 -
stevencloser wrote: »puttputt24 wrote: »
It's not the kids.....................it's the LEGAL SYSTEM.Christine_72 wrote: »Aaah gone are the days when kids swapped lunches and snacks, there were no food rules and allergies/sicknesses/intolerance's were rarely heard of. Wtf has happened to our kids since i was in school??
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Not the legal system. It's the parenting. Adolescents are more obese than ever before. Parents are the ones supplying the food. I stand by supporting the teacher. FOLLOW THE RULES.
OP specifically said THERE WAS NO SUCH RULE.
I may be mistaken, but I thought the guidelines said that the kids were to bring a healthy snack. Of course it is difficult to define "healthy," but regardless of what I think is healthy/unhealthy I still know what most of society means when they say "Healthy Snack." It ain't poptarts.6 -
BruinsGal_91 wrote: »Confession time... I have never eaten a PopTart. After 14 pages telling me they are the food of the devil, I now want to eat an entire box of them. Which flavours are the best?
Unfrosted blueberry, toasted with butter. It is awesome!!! The poptarts ice cream sandwich looks pretty tasty too.
Oh no. Only the ones with frosting for me!0 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »BruinsGal_91 wrote: »Confession time... I have never eaten a PopTart. After 14 pages telling me they are the food of the devil, I now want to eat an entire box of them. Which flavours are the best?
There are a lot of new flavors, but when I was a kid, my favorites were anything with frosting and crunchy stuff on it.
Correct. The flavor doesn't really matter.1 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »Ready2Rock206 wrote: »Motorsheen wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »This irritates me too. My son for 5 years every day took only 3 plain bread rolls for his lunch. No butter no filling no fruit. Nothing else. That's what he wanted and that's what he had. I made sure it was all balanced with a big healthy sustaining breakfast and after school tea / dinner etc . This teacher has no idea of what else your kid eats in a day. I bet some of those tucking into An apple and hummus dip are eating KFC for dinner!
What's wrong with KFC? Chicken is an excellent source of lean protein.
It's the F of KFC.
Shhhh... Don't tell but they sell it grilled too.
And for the record, hummus isn't exactly low cal or low fat, either. It's just trendy and pretentious.
Like quinoa and chia seeds.
Which are now apparently passe, too.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/food-news/88093154/forget-kale-and-chia-seeds-these-are-the-new-superfoods-for-2017
<Sigh> Who can keep up?
Hummus is a very popular food in the middle east and has been for quite some time. I would be really fascinated to understand what is pretentious about it.
I do agree that it is not low calorie or low fat.3 -
JennGardner1 wrote: »comptonelizabeth wrote: »
Where does she state that she regularly sends her child to school with a whole packet?
This thread is like a game of Chinese Whispers.
Typically for a teacher to contact the parent it is a recurring issue. Even if it's only once in awhile, only a moron would claim healthy food is some sort of a myth. I get there is woo stuff and BroScience, but you can disbelieve that acai' berries are magical and still see that Pop Tarts are garbage food.
Some people have jumped to a lot of conclusions about the OP and didn't bother to do any investigating.
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »Confession time... I have never eaten a PopTart. After 14 pages telling me they are the food of the devil, I now want to eat an entire box of them. Which flavours are the best?
The Sea Bass flavored ones.
.... ask for them by name.1 -
trigden1991 wrote: »BruinsGal_91 wrote: »Confession time... I have never eaten a PopTart. After 14 pages telling me they are the food of the devil, I now want to eat an entire box of them. Which flavours are the best?
Prepare for disappointment in a packet.
Yeah. They really aren't that great. Some people swear by then but I've only ever sort of liked the frosted brown sugar ones.0 -
trigden1991 wrote: »BruinsGal_91 wrote: »Confession time... I have never eaten a PopTart. After 14 pages telling me they are the food of the devil, I now want to eat an entire box of them. Which flavours are the best?
Prepare for disappointment in a packet.
My feeling exactly! A couple of times I have been lured by some yummy-sounding new flavor only to be gravely disappointed! The dry, flavorless edges where they skimp on the frosting are the worst.
I didn't read the whole thread, but I would have at least liked the opportunity to provide my child's own snack each day. When my son was in kindergarten (we home school now), a different parent was assigned to provide the snack for the whole class each day (with the "healthy" stipulation). You never knew what they were going to get and if it was something they would eat. (I guarantee my son never touched a celery stick.)
Also, I was wondering- is this a relatively new thing? When I was in elementary school in the 70s, I sure don't remember daily snacks, even in kindergarten.0 -
So after reading and participating in this thread I've come to the conclusion that most people fit into one of two categories. The ones that see the composition of a diet as a whole (the balancing of nutrient dense and nutrient sparse foods to create and overall healthful diet) as most important and those that believe the micromanaging of each bite (no amount of refined sugar can ever be healthy and must be avoided in order to prevent obesity and death) as most important.
One is big picture thinking. The other can't see the forest for the trees thinking.12 -
vikinglander wrote: »I suppose if one was out on a long trail, or at Everest Base Camp, and burning 4000 + calories per day, Pop Tarts would be an OK part of a 'balanced diet'...
Thoughts?
Two of my kids eat them a few times a week (they usually split the package) and they're healthy and thin, just doing every day kid stuff They eat a varied diet full of all sorts of foods. 3 -
vikinglander wrote: »I suppose if one was out on a long trail, or at Everest Base Camp, and burning 4000 + calories per day, Pop Tarts would be an OK part of a 'balanced diet'...
Thoughts?
Sure. More "junk foods" as a percent of total caloeies work as someone burns quite a bit more calories through hard core exercise.
For someone on 2000 calories a day a single 200 calorie pop tart would take up most of the suggested allotment of "junkfood".
Most of these people have enough respect for their bodies not to be fueling with pop tarts or similar items on a regular basis.1 -
"Teacher says pop tarts are not a healthy snack"
They are not a healthy snack. She is 100% correct!6 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »The level of unadulterated woo and holier than thou judgement of a parent based on snack choice in this thread makes me sad.
This is why the "mean people" on MFP keep speaking up. Because there are so many people who honestly believe an occasional "processed" snack will kill you. Because there are so many people who believe it's healthy to be scared of food. Because there are so many who believe they are better, more virtuous people because they eat "clean". To the point that they would consider teaching a child that an occasional sweet treat is fine in the context of a healthy diet is child abuse. SMH. Scary stuff.
You don't have to teach a child that anything is fine or not fine to teach them to follow directions. And that seems to be the biggest point IMO. The teacher said don't bring pop-tarts as a snack. So ... don't bring them. Period. End of story.
Teachers deal with enough crap without every parent with a dieting beef choosing school as a place to get up on a soapbox.
One more time. The teacher never told the parent to not pack a pop tart. She was lazy, didn't define what snacks qualified and then punished the child for something that was out of his control. THAT was the OP's issue. There never would have been a thread if the teacher had taken the five minutes to either define what snacks were acceptable initially or to inform the parent after the fact. She did neither of those things and because of that, it precipitated a second classroom occurance.
Everyone is so caught up in the title of the thread that they either don't read the post or use this as an excuse to soapbox about the evils of processed foods, going so far as to hint at child abuse.
The teacher was wrong. For everyone asking what the OP expected? Probably for people to take the time to read and comprehend the actual issue and not be distracted by buzzwords only.
I blame buzzfeed (and other similar systems) for the level of reading comprehension and critical thinking evident in this thread.16
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