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AIBU to think parents should provide a better pack lunch than this??

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neverlookback · 04/12/2013 13:12

My dd goes to the local community nursery a couple of mornings a week and when I pick her up at 12 all the kids staying all day have thier pack lunches ready on the tables, today as I'm waiting for dd to come through I noticed someone had sent in a bowl of cold takeaway garlic bread and chips! You could tell it was takeaway there's only 1 in our village!

I'm all for takeaway sometimes but I don't think this is a nice, healthy lunch for any child to have to take to nursery and eat cold or is it just me??

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GodRestTEEMerryGenTEEmen · 04/12/2013 13:13

How are those judgy pants? Tight?

Kyrptonite · 04/12/2013 13:14

Packed lunch. Not pack.

LaurieFairyCake · 04/12/2013 13:15

It's a dreadful meal even to me who's just necked a bar of chocolate for lunch

And a good example of why Britons are suffering malnutrition in increasing numbers

CoffeeTea103 · 04/12/2013 13:15

Maybe mind your own business?

BettySwollocksandaCrustyRack · 04/12/2013 13:15

AIBU in thinking you should MYOB? You sort out your kids packed lunch and let other people sort out theirs.

GoodbyeRubyTuesday · 04/12/2013 13:16

I bet the child loved it though. Loads of people enjoy cold takeaway the next day. Maybe it was a birthday treat or something, they probably don't have it every day!

BrianTheMole · 04/12/2013 13:17

Its fine as an occasional thing.

eightandthreequarters · 04/12/2013 13:17

No, it's not. But do you make a habit of inspecting this child's lunch? Very possibly a one-off and s/he normally comes with chickpea salads and a side of sashimi with wasabi.

dashoflime · 04/12/2013 13:18

It is a bit rubbish. Mind you, I have given DS yesterdays cold pizza before and he loved it. I'd be a bit embarrassed to send him to nursery with it though.

GodRestTEEMerryGenTEEmen · 04/12/2013 13:19

"And a good example of why Britons are suffering malnutrition in increasing numbers"

Don't blame packed lunches for that. Blame the Tories.

livinginawinterwonderland · 04/12/2013 13:21

Yeah, it is a bit crap, but I doubt it happens everyday. I just had cold pizza for lunch because I couldn't be arsed to cook something proper. No big deal. I normally have a decent meal or a sandwich but today I just didn't feel like it.

Loosen those judgy pants.

harticus · 04/12/2013 13:22

Cold garlic bread and chips?
FFS.

CMOTDibbler · 04/12/2013 13:25

A bit of cold pizza or garlic bread in a packed lunch alongside other things is OK. Cold garlic bread, chips (vile cold generally imo) and nothing else for an under 4 is rubbish

Dawndonnaagain · 04/12/2013 13:25

Oh for heaven's sake. When you're perfect, you have a go at someone. How do you know that it wasn't a treat, that a parent hadn't landed up in hospital last night, that it really was from the takeaway?

Stop being so nosy and judgy.

custardo · 04/12/2013 13:27

ahh the bygone days when my kids ate leftover kebab for breakfast on a sunday in front of the telly whilst I was recovering sleeping soundly

onetiredmummy · 04/12/2013 13:28

Cold garlic bread is nasty!

No matter what the child eats every other day, cold bread & chips is just a big lump of carbs with bugger all nutrition unless you count the fat from the garlic bread.

Who could NOT judge that lunch?!

ExitPursuedByAChristmasGrinch · 04/12/2013 13:29

I love left over garlic bread

sebsmummy1 · 04/12/2013 13:29

How old was this child, if nursery I'm assuming around three?

I don't think it's having judgey pants to make the very obvious comment that this is not a good varied lunch. I think as a one off its acceptable, but if the child was coming in each day with a cold takeaway I would hope the nursery might say something.

TalkieToaster · 04/12/2013 13:30

I dread my DS going to school next year, because I know that people like you will have their judgy pants hoiked up around their ears. He has ASD and I can count on one hand the things he'll actually eat. Garlic bread is one of them.

No, it's not an ideal lunch. Of course it isn't. But who made you the head of the lunchbox police?

Damnautocorrect · 04/12/2013 13:30

Bollocks I could have had the left over garlic bread with my soup.

Cold that's a pretty disgusting lunch as an occasional lunch, not ideal but ok

claraschu · 04/12/2013 13:31

That sounds like an awful lunch: I would turn up my nose at it, but (like 99% of my judgements on other people), I would make darn sure no one could tell I was being so judgemental.

By the way, how is cold pizza different from a cheese and tomato sandwich?

cherryademerrymaid · 04/12/2013 13:32

It's nutritionally lacking. It's quite possibly a one off. Maybe the child has a medical condition that requires regular ingestion of such foods (yes, there are medical conditions that need food like this). It's none of your business.

Goldenbear · 04/12/2013 13:36

Least it wasn't a chicken bhuna?

I've just had a bag of minstrels for lunch but I am 36 and I'm a hypocrite as I wouldn't let 2 year old DD have them for lunch. Mind you, not every child at nursery age is happy with big standard sandwich lunch-maybe that is the issue?

Cold chips sound revolting.

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neverlookback · 04/12/2013 13:37

Blimey wish I'd not asked!!

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nicename · 04/12/2013 13:40

Maybe the kid has food issues, and that's the only thing they eat? Kids can be bloody fussy. It sounds like a friend who would only eat food that was white for years.

My friend was a teacher and some kids would come in with a cookie for lunch (the 'Cookietime' giant ones you buy in a pack of one).

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