Extravagant Pack Lunches

Do your employers know how horribly judgemental you are?

I buy the trimmings, a fraction of the price and still taste great

Billy bear will be spinning in his grave with these new lunches!

And not before time!

Sounds lovely.

What's wrong with the child's lunchbox? Do you think other children will be upset because it's unaffordable for their parents? Because I doubt that. The child's more likely to get teased themselves if their lunchbox is very different from everybody else's.

Please get the kid's parent's number for me. I'd put in an order!

Given it's now 2025, quiche, focaccia, salmon are all pretty standard fare. Now, if you were taking about blinis, sour cream and a little caviar, I might see where you are coming from. But a slice of quiche? Hell no 😂

As an aside, in the 80s/early 90s, if I had to take sandwiches to school, usually on a school trip, it was always a smoked salmon beigel. Why? Because as a Jewish family, we did not have bread rolls, we had beigels. Instead of the more typical sandwich fillings as cheese, ham, sandwich spread, we had smoked salmon. It wasn't extravagant, it was what was available at our local Jewish deli, and what we ate without a second thought.

Not coming back op?

The kid’s getting a well balanced and varied lunch by the sounds of it. You’d rather they had some ham sandwiches and cheese strings? Not enough facepalms for this one.

Or like a journo that has missed the boat on a Weight Loss Jab/School Run Lesbian article...

We would have given DS things like that ... with a heart and a half

Apologies for the derail, but: I'm in my mid-60s and I had never heard that expression before. It's lovely. I wonder if it's regional — can I ask where you're from?

Looks fantastic to me. If my son would eat it I would send similar too

Instead I send a bento box with biscuits, cake, seaweed and whatever fruit he decides he can tolerate....... I call it his emotional support lunch because it's just there as something for him to hold while he's on transport to the unit

Are the children's parent's into adopting an adult? Asking for a friend.

Pot Noodle and a can of Monster...

You've just said there are many parents who are very rich... Why wouldn't they eat yummy, healthy food?!

I was wondering that. Perhaps it is one of the entry criteria for the school that parents must have no mortgages. 🤣

And how the heck would OP know if parents are mortgage free, especially with having such young children.

So what are kids supposed to eat then?

Here’s what I usually pack in my child’s lunchbox: plain yogurt, fresh fruit, a cheese string, homemade bread with a topping (sometimes salmon and cream cheese), and some vegetable sticks. She almost never leaves anything behind.

She eats well because that’s just how our whole family eats, and she’s not really familiar with junk food. The other day she told me her classmates bring “chocolate yogurt with chocolate chips” ; but what she meant was the chocolate pudding they markendise as yogurt to make it seem healthy, when in reality it’s just processed junk.

As a TA, you should be happy that families are feeding their kids well, not being judgmental about it.

I think you’re the absurd one. Maybe send an email to the parents telling them to pack turkey twizzlers instead. Should we assume by this that your own diet is unhealthy?

You sound quite envious @Diadrie and not very nice. Posting on the internet about a five year old's lunch! The things you list as "extravagant and slightly absurd" are just normal food: salmon & cream cheese bagel - standard Jewish food, for example; quiche also absolutely normal lunch food.

The salt! The fat! The wheat! How can you subject your children to such awfulness?

My child takes olives, breadsticks, salmon etc to school it’s all she will eat 😂

This post is completely inappropriate and pretty outing. You seem to be in the wrong job

ResusciAnnie · Today 16:48
How do you know if people are mortgage free? 😵‍💫
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I wondered that too, this TA has a lot of time on her hands nosing into the business of parents as well as noting what individual children have in their lunch boxes. If a child appeared to have next to nothing to eat, fair enough, anyone would notice that, otherwise who cares as long as they tuck in.

It's hardly a professional attitude.

Where I live it's a Snap tin. The miners had metal tins with a locking device that snapped it shut to keep it safe from rats in the pit.

All food can be called Snap. There's a sandwich shop near me that has a neon sign advertising 'reyt good snap'. The mines closed in the 90s but the language lives on.

Well it's a sandwich. If the child likes steak and salmon and the parents can afford it why on earth not?

Should they just stick to dairy lea or processed ham in the shape of a teddy bear?

It's probably leftovers from the night before
anyway.

To me extravagant would be several different home made cakes or snacks, several fruit and veg all cut up prettily, a home made squeezed juice, with a really really overpriced ingredient like caviar or lobster. Or a load of ready made stuff from Harrods or Fortnums food hall!

Is their lunch making the other children jealous?

I used to have quiche in my packed lunch 30 years ago. My son's favourite food is smoked salmon. There isn't really that much price difference between the non smart price ham and smoked salmon now.
All sounds yummy. I want to go to their house!