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to think this is a perfectly good sized lunch?

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FenellaFellorick · 06/06/2015 17:54

For my 15 and 16 year old sons?
(If not a very healthy one but that's not my question Grin)

Ham and cheese salad sandwich, a frube and a wafer bar.

I am doing the next 2 weeks packed lunches for the freezer and this is being hotly contested in my house right now Grin

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FenellaFellorick · 09/06/2015 10:19

I've just seen the mn fb page.

Fuck em.

This is what I'm giving them tomorrow.

to think this is a perfectly good sized lunch?
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UmmErrWhateves · 09/06/2015 10:00

FenellaF this is a hilarious thread and I have to commend on your brilliant replies. You are a top class mumnetter and you sound like a fabulous Mum too Star Star Star Star Star

Ps, I think the lunch is fine as is and I have plenty of experience of teen boys. Mine would have a post school snack quite often.

NewNameFor2015 · 09/06/2015 09:51

You have had me in tears this morning laughing at this thread. I've also found it extremely useful as my 3yo has just gone gluten free (yesterday was her first day!) and I will be trying out all the foods suggested. Mn at its best, hilarious, informative and my hat goes off to the op for keeping her cool, I'd have either blown a gasket or be sat in a corner rocking and sobbing 'i only wanted to know if it was enough'

NoIsNotACompleteSentence · 09/06/2015 09:47

woah!

Well that was a cheerful little ditty....

FenellaFellorick · 09/06/2015 09:18
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NoIsNotACompleteSentence · 09/06/2015 09:11

Right, please stop it now, I have sore ribs and the fucking bastarding twatting laughing is hurting me Smile

What is the Iilky moor thing of which you speak, btw? I've seen the user name but didn't know what it was...

FenellaFellorick · 09/06/2015 09:06

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MiscellaneousAssortment · 09/06/2015 09:01

There are 13 pages so I couldn't possibly be expected to RTFT and besides my words are important and yooooonique so you need to hear the precious gems that fall from my lips and be grateful.

i CANNOT Believe You Aren't Letting Them MAKE THEIR OWN LUNCHES. Nothing you say can possibly explain this terrible state of affairs.

You need to stop mollycoddling them and start being a PROPER MOTHER. By your terrible oversight you are actually responsible for well, everything. Including world hunger and global warming. Everything else you think you are doing well is negated by this terrible neglect. You do realise that you are neglecting them by spoiling them and it needs to stop now before you damage them for life. I hope a teacher or neighbour can intervene (sad face) (po face) (sanctimony face)...

Love and superiority,
The Oracle Of Delphi.

FenellaFellorick · 09/06/2015 08:55

Rach, sorry - no, no meds. My youngest was (equasym) but he had to be weaned off due to a bad reaction.

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FenellaFellorick · 09/06/2015 08:50

that's nothing.
Yesterday it had a false beard and a bow tie.

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BareGorillas · 09/06/2015 08:44

Each to their own and all that, but I am horrified that you're making your children's lunch wear your glasses.

Gabilan · 09/06/2015 08:30

I now have an odd earworm:

Oh read the fucking thread
Oh read the fucking thread
Oh read the fucking thread

to the tune of On Ilkley Moor bar t'at, sung in a baritone. And on that note, I'm going to work.

Gabilan · 09/06/2015 08:07

"I agree they should make it, not you!"

To be fair, that does scan quite well to On Ilkley Moor if you sing the last word as y-ou with two syllables.

I know the thread is long but really, you would think people would go "300+ posts on the size of a lunch, what are they talking about?" and at least skim read a few more posts before jumping in.

NoIsNotACompleteSentence · 09/06/2015 08:05

fenella, I love you a little bit. You're so calm and patient and my heart rate went through the the roof about a million posts ago Grin

I'm just waiting for the hat trick

Why can't they make their own lunches, you're spoiling them - tick
I feel sorry for your kids - tick
Someone call social services

At least this has given us a chance to update our Mumsnetters Who Are Twats spreadsheets, and a nice new acronym when RTFT just isn't enough!

Seriously though I am astounded by people's sheer twattery, and as for the helpful school nurse patronisingly advising us what our DC get up to...

MrsDeVere · 09/06/2015 07:56

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rachyrah · 09/06/2015 07:41

Are your boys on meds Fenella? My Aspie son's appetite is affected by his. Hence he won't eat much at lunch time but has an enormous dinner once his meds have tunes out.

It is so difficult to know wether they're eating out of habit/ mood/ stimulus or because their body genuinely needs more when they don't have the self awareness. Due to their disability. Ok non-thread readers?

nearly1stonelighter · 09/06/2015 07:39

My son almost 9 takes 1 large bap with ham, cheese and salad. A pot of full fat natural yoghurt. A pot of mixed berries. A boiled egg. 1 treat thing - either homemade cake, malt loaf, packet of crisps etc.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 09/06/2015 07:28

I think you've been polite enough - RTBFTT (I like it better that way) is an excellent response by now! Grin

FenellaFellorick · 09/06/2015 07:15

I don't like to be rude Blush

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DownWithThisTypeOfThing · 09/06/2015 07:14

GrinGrin

OP you don't have to keep explaining yourself. A RTFBTT (Read The Fucking Bastard Twatting Thread) will suffice Grin

FenellaFellorick · 09/06/2015 07:07

I regularly ask them if they'd like anything else instead.

They like everything to remain the same always for the whole of eternity Grin You'd think they'd be bored of exactly the same lunch, day in, day out but no.

When they had school dinners I am told they had a potato. Every day.

This is clearly an improvement Grin

No, I won't be switching to them making their own packed lunches. If it is about them knowing how to make a sandwich, they do. They can. They will. They have sandwich making skills (although - see 'peanut butter and marshmallow' above!)

Everything they do requires input. It requires me to instruct. To watch. To manage. To direct. To talk and walk them through it until they can manage it with remote supervision (remote supervision is as independent as it gets. It means they are doing it for and by themselves but you are aware of it and ready to step in if required). They have household tasks that they do. I am happy with those. I bring in additional ones as appropriate so that when they transition to adult services they will have a number of relevant skills.

They are currently eating the breakfast they made themselves.

Making sandwiches is a dull task repeated weekly and I just want to do it. Just a simple task I can get out of the way in a way that is easy and quick. For me. Get them in the freezer with minimum hassle and mess. If I was incapacitated for any reason, they would be able to make their sandwiches.

I can't remember who asked if the rolls were the size of a subway. No.

But if you're anything like me, it's hard to visualise inches. (there's a joke in there somewhere Wink ) so I took this.

to think this is a perfectly good sized lunch?
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PrimalLass · 09/06/2015 07:04

dansmum - RTFT.

Confused
Superexcited · 09/06/2015 07:00

I can't believe how many of you think that biscuits and crisps are a vital part of lunch. THAT is setting up bad eating habits.

Crisps and biscuits can be consumed once a day as part of a balanced diet. My son has a small packet of crisps and 2 biscuits in his packed lunch but he also had 2 portions of fresh fruit and a portion of salad. He eats a minimum of 7 pieces of fruit each day and has veg on top of that so I don't see that one pack of crisps and 2 biscuits is leading him to a lifetime of poor eating. He is as fit as a fiddle, slim and very toned.
Certain things that we deem to be healthy are often no better than crisps /biscuits.

dansmum · 09/06/2015 06:59

I freeze certain plain meat sandwiches and cake slices so they stay cold in pl. But I AM horrified YOU are still doing their pl's! My ds and dd have been making their own lunches for 3 years now..they are 10 and 12. That way they make as much as they want, made the way they want it. I was fed up of making lunches that were untouched because they had the wrong bread /butter/no butter/ red grapes not green grapes.(the usual foodie foibles) and it taught them some life skills. They are being unreasonable IMHO. If they are moaning about your lunches..let them make their own !!??

Waltonswatcher · 09/06/2015 06:50

Garafalo gf pasta is amazing. Not cheap but the best. We've tried them all.
No good for packed lunch though, needs eating when cooked.