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Teenage DS buying crap food for his lunch

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GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 15/02/2019 20:19

He only has money for a Friday, packed lunches for the rest of the week. I can see online what he’s brought, granted I haven’t done it for a few weeks and I’ve just looked and I shocked!

Today was a sausage roll, 4 cookies (2x2 packets) and two drinks.

It was so much easier when they were little to influence what they ate, wtf, if anything, do I do about this?

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CaseofEllen · 15/02/2019 20:21

I think you don't do anything. If he has pack lunches the rest of the week you can make those healthy. No (nearly) teenage boy will make healthy choices when the unhealthy is right in front of them IME.

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GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 15/02/2019 20:27

Would you insist on packed lunch every day or continue to fund this and hope he learns his own way?

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Rtmhwales · 15/02/2019 20:27

Nothing. It's a phase. I used to toss my mother's lovingly prepared healthy packed lunches and buy crisps and fizzy drinks. For years. I've turned into a healthy normal weight adult with a good diet.

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Kpo58 · 15/02/2019 20:32

How much is a proper meal at the school? Could he have afforded to buy something decent? What he bought was probably much cheaper than a proper meal.

SnuggyBuggy · 15/02/2019 20:34

I'd at least try and find out what's available. I don't think one crap lunch per week is the worst thing in the world

CaseofEllen · 15/02/2019 20:36

@GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat I would keep letting him have school dinners on a Friday personally. Fridays used to be greasy fish and chips at my school

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GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 15/02/2019 20:44

He definitely had enough to buy something decent, he had £10 on his account and has £5 remaining. So £5 went on that lot today.

He’s always had a bit of a sweet tooth and I’m not massively surprised, just wondered if I should do anything about it. I am overweight and obviously have eating issues myself.

He’s slim and 5’ 10” and in a growth spurt at the moment. He walks just over a mile to and from school and is very sensible and lovely as 15 year olds go so I don’t want to get in his case if I don’t have to.

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ApolloandDaphne · 15/02/2019 20:45

I would do nothing. Let him have shot one day each week. Life is too short for this sort of angst.

Cuddlysnowleopard · 15/02/2019 20:49

Once a week, don't worry. DS has school dinners every day. Most of the time he'll have a main meal, but he sometimes blows out of bacon sandwiches, cookies and sausage rolls. Really not worth making it an issue.

PolarBearDisguisedAsAPenguin · 15/02/2019 20:49

I think that if that is the most you have to worry about with him then you should relax and be happy. Let him enjoy his choice of lunch on a Friday.

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GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 15/02/2019 20:53

Thank you all! It really is all I have to worry about and I will chill the fuck out

I have GAD and catastrophise everything! Lovely to read normal responses.

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BitOutOfPractice · 15/02/2019 21:20

I echo the "meh, it's one meal. Don't worry" replies.

BitOutOfPractice · 15/02/2019 21:21

One thing you could say is "you get £x a month and you have to budget that". It'll teach him some sense when he's hungry one Friday

safariboot · 15/02/2019 21:23

One sausage roll, two drinks, and 4 biscuits costs a fiver? "Rip off" is what comes to mind there!

Not the point of the thread but still.

ILoveMaxiBondi · 15/02/2019 21:24

It’s one meal a week out of what, 21? It’s fine.

gt84 · 15/02/2019 21:28

Mine is the same but he has school food 5 days a week. Have threatened that if he continues eating badly after half term then I’ll consider packed lunch.

Knitwit101 · 15/02/2019 21:32

Mine has chips and curry sauce from the chip shop every Thursday. Occasionally he has rice and curry sauce from the Chinese, for a bit of variety. It's one meal a week, i don't worry.

Crockof · 15/02/2019 21:42

Agree with everyone else and have exactly the same worries as you (coming from the same place)

Starlight456 · 15/02/2019 21:49

One thing at our secondary school . Different places for different things and so expected to eat different places . 3 places at ours for pasta pots , sandwiches or a hot meal. And then packed lunch eat elsewhere . No idea why. But my Ds eats where his friends are.

Also my mum insisted I was sandwiches which I use to bin and buy chips

Topseyt · 16/02/2019 01:53

Do nothing. He is just being a teenager, and it is just one day a week.

When I was at school many moons ago I used to spend all my dinner money on crisps and chocolate in the school tuck shop. I think my mother came to realise this. She had previously been very against letting me have packed lunches with most of my friends, but did eventually relent and my tuck shop visits then greatly reduced.

LearningMySelfWorth · 16/02/2019 02:15

@Starlight456 I think we went to the same school

floribunda18 · 16/02/2019 02:39

DD1 has had a tray bake at break and a panini or pasta nearly every day for lunch for the last 2.5 years at school, because the queues were much shorter at the pasta and panini bar. Just this week, for some reason she suddenly started bothering to queue for the proper dinners. Hallelujah.

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