Are lunchables really that bad?!

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I know, they're not great everyday. And honestly, the DCs have probably had them a handful of times in their whole lives (they're now 12 and 10). But we were driving home from seeing family on Sunday and got caught in the most horrific traffic imaginable. What should have been a 2 hour drive took us 6 hours 15 minutes!
We managed to stop at a petrol station 4 hours in and as DCs were desperately hungry I took them in and let them choose something. It was slim pickings and choices were lunchables, those hideous chicken bite things or a sausage roll. In my mind, lunchables were the best of a bad bunch. There was a woman with a little boy behind us, and he pointed to the lunchables and asked for them too, and his mum piped up 'no sweetie, you don't want to eat those yukky things. I don't know why anybody would buy those for children' and then picked up a sausage roll for him . FWIW, we also bought carrot sticks and houmous each, plus a pack of mango and melon fingers (for the fabulous price of £10 all in, bloody daylight robbery) but AIBU to think that actually, despite the general consensus, they are not in fact the snack choice of the devil? I'll say again, I know they're not a great food for every day, but did I deserve that snarky remark? (because it was very obviously directed at me!)

Ach you get arsey parents whereever you go. The lunchables are fine I am partial to a Dairylea dunker now and again

I don’t know how you managed to resist buying extra lunchables after that comment, eating them open mouthed in the queue whilst proclaiming how delicious they where to anyone within earshot.
Soft cow, the other woman not you.

Do people ever really say that out loud in real life though?

I mean, do they really?

Really?

I have over heard the most ridiculous things said out loud some people have no filter.

Lol that was probably my sister buying the sausage roll! She'd definitely say that sort of thing. She told me not to give my child bread.

Why can't a child have bread ?

They' be pretty awful to have regularly - loads of plastic and terrible processed meat. I wouldn't balk and getting them occasionally though, a motorway petrol station meal is hardly going to represent anyone's ideal diet.

I bought one for my Ds for lunch at school . It was yellow stickered. He was delighted as I never buy them as they are so overpriced.

That said one meal or snack is a snippet of a persons diet so to comment is simply stupid.

I also remember Ben at a toddler group at 9.30 buying my son a cake . Another child wanted one and said no not at this time of the morning but my son had been up and had breakfast at 5 in the morning.

Oh I can well imagine.

A woman once loud parentingly called my 3 year old niece 'ignorant'

Said 3 yr old is and was non verbal because she's Autistic. People can be dicks 💁

These sort of parents make me laugh. They’re raising their kids on kale and quinoa, one day they’ll realise they all grow up eating McDonald’s and drinking coke. More so people who are denied things like this, tend to binge on it later in life.

The woman sounds like a fruit loop. It’s a lunchable. It’s processed meat, cheese and crackers, hardly going to give your kids a heart attack.

I always feel a bit guilty whenever I give my DD a lunchable which is ridiculous because they are just ham, cheese and crackers.
As long as they're not having them every single day whats the harm.

It is 5/6 ritzcrackers bits of cheese bits if ham you are lucky if it makes a full slice of ham it really isn't a huge deal.

Bread is bad because it is high in salt, according to some mad people.

Blackforrestcake I think some people need to calm down children need all the food groups as part of a balanced diet it is a bit of bread not crack !