Peak mumsnet has been reached
And common fucking sense has been left dying in the gutter.
Prawn and cherry tomato skewers for a 3 year old who will be emotionally damaged if she finds cheese cubes instead?
How the fuck will that parent deal with the real challenges of bringing up a pre-teen and a teenager?
I think the OP needs to know that, within reason, you have to make yourself the boss of your kids. You can't have prawns in your lunchbox because they might go off and it will make you ill.
Here's things that I know you like. Eat it, or don't eat it. Your choice.
It's not going to be prawns. Prawns are not ideal for a lunchbox. Have prawns when you get home.
I honestly can't remember bargaining, or having any discussion whatever with my kids about what went into their lunchbox. I was their Mam and I sent in their packed lunch. Maybe at 12 or 13 they might tell me they didn't like salmon paste (joke, nobody likes salmon paste). But at THREE!!? No way. They had what everybody else had. And NOBODY had prawns. Everybody knows prawns are risky for food poisoning. Sending your kids in with prawns would have looked a bit irresponsible to most of us. What are you trying to prove? What's wrong with cheese? Assuming you're not vegan ,because prawns?
slipperyeel
Yup. I'm just amazed that a 3 year old has enough knowledge and life experience to dictate their own diet. And how long seafood will last out of a fridge. And looking forward all day to their prawns?
I'm an experienced Mum and I find that unlikely
If the child next to them has some onion bhajees, they'd be more interested in that. They will eat some of the food that their peers bring. It They all do swap food. I know they do!
Mine would have eaten chips and cheese every day of their life. But fortunately, when they were aged 3, I was the boss of what they ate, and I sent them in with a nutritious lunchbox.
I hope OP learns something from this thread.
I sincerely do. Having your 3 year old dictate her lunch requirements, and OP being worried that it will upset her 3 year old if she doesn't get what she wants, sets an unworkable precedent for Mum.
OP. Try to think of the future, when they are teenagers. Try to think ahead. Try to have some sort of reasonable discipline. Try to think how prawns have the possibility of making your child poorly. Try to find a way of having some control over what your 3 year old eats.
And most of all, don't think that because your child likes prawns that they are the most uber food polymathic 3 year old child in the world.
There are millions of kids in this country who have a more varied diet than yours. Probably mine included. Just be a bit sensible. Don't 'show off' by sending your kid into school with prawns.
Unless you want a couple of nights dealing with the sickness and vomiting if the school's fridge lets you down.