Quote:
Originally Posted by ernie
I'll be honest my goal when I pack my kids (5 and 7) lunches for school is that they eat it so they are not hungry at school. I control breakfast and dinner so that I know they are getting the nutrition they need. If I need to throw in some cookies or kids sized pringles or bologna with crackers into the lunch to make sure they actually eat and have a full stomach I damn well do it.
That said the kids generally love to eat oranges, apples, applesauce (unsweetened) that it usually isn't hard to pack them a healthy lunch. But they go through phases and when that lunch box starts coming back home full, things need to be changed up.
|
Amen! Pretty much everything we send with our son to school comes back uneaten. The skinny little bugger won't eat cold foods, like sandwiches, and if we send hot food in a thermos, he says it tastes funny. We still go through the motions of including a healthy component with his lunch. Funny enough, the only time a teacher has ever seemed to notice that he didn't eat his lunch was the time we sent something unhealthy (Lunchmates). Thanks for sending a note home letting us know that he didn't eat that... maybe instead you can be sure he eats the veggies and fruit we send every day, seeing as how we pay a user fee for supervision?