is this the worst lunch ever

[dolphin13]

I just looked after 2 children for the day. They came with a packed lunch consisting of:

2 bottles fruit shoot
1 yoghurt drink
2 bags of fruit flavoured sweets
1 bag of crisps
1 cheese string
1 coco pops chocolate cereal bar
2 ritz crackers
1 penguin bar
Bottle pepsi

They were on an inset day but this is what they take to school each day. My youngest threw a major paddy when presented with her wholemeal ham roll, fromaige frais and melon slices. I know my lunches are forever going to be compared now to the heavenly lunch these children were allowed. I will never hear the last of it.

2 ritz crackers? The small ones? What's the point? To share, 1 each?

This is exactly why so many schools are bringing in 'lunchbox police'.

Are you sure it wasn't a special treat lunch due to the inset day?

that is not lunch

that is an assortment of snacks

my dcs would think i was marvellous if i ever packed them a lunch consisting of that though

Girl in DS3's nursery came in the other day with
fruit shoot
1 red pepperami
1 green pepperami
sweets.

I was , that must have been her weekly if not monthly salt and fat allowance!

That's an unhealthy lunch, without a doubt

I dunno

there's no lines of cocaine so probably not the worst lunch ever

Bloody hell, that is bad, and that's coming from someone who has just bought her DD a Greggs sausage roll!

what are red pepperami? how do they differ from the green ones?

That's just a bunch of goodies, not lunch.

More spicy, AFAIK

lol laurie, you are right suppose it could have been worse.

I really can't believe it but they said it's what they always have. Said they don't like bread or fruit. This wasn't a shared lunch they had a bag each. Even if it was a treat thats a years worth for my poor deprived DCs.

I Just know when my lot get home from school the lo will tell them exactly what the lucky boys got.

Are all those items ones that you can keep in the cupboard, rather than in the fridge? (or in the case of the cheese string they last for ages?).

Maybe the mother hadn't been shopping for a while and didn't have anything fresh in the house? Probably not that good an excuse though.

Op did you find they were hyper after eating all that rubbish ?

That's awful.

I'm not vastly experienced in childcare, but have found from looking after younger cousins that 'don't like X food' can usually be translated into 'have learned that if I complain about/try to refuse X food, I'm given something with more sugar in'. I was looking after a two-year-old who 'didn't like water', but he soon drank it within a couple of minutes of being offered it instead of his normal sugary fruit juice.

Well my DS had for lunch:

yoghurt pouch
babybel
My5 fruit shoot
salt and shake crisps
fruit flakes
fruit bar
raisins

and I don't think it's THAT bad.

Op did their Mum think you were giving them lunch and they are just snacks?

I that each? Or between 2?

Yikes, if I gave that to ds (3)he'd be bunged up for days!

I used to work on kids playschemes during school holidays. We once had a 5 year old boy come in with a Happy Meal which his older brother asked us to heat up for him at lunchtime (this was 8.30am). H&S guidelines say re-heated meat can be unsafe so we weren't allowed to do this. Couldn't get hold of his brother or parents and he didn't want us to give him anything else so he ate it cold.

elmofan, I let DD have one most times she asks, but baring in mind the only time she's really with me in town is school holidays it's not that often.
She had two over half term, and will probably have one a week now until the schools go back.

I don't think they're bad as one item occasionally.

She's also had a punnet of strawberries, an apple, two slices of wholemeal toast and peanut butter, a piece of brie and a slice of home made chocolate fudge cake.

Home made veg korma and rice for dinner.

See, not a bad diet even though junk is in there.

The lunch mentioned makes me think they only eat junk as it's just too much.

sagacityNell that was each.
SixtyFoot doll Definately lunch

They were leaving me at 2 o clock so I didn't give them lunch till half past one so I wouldn't be the one who had to peel them off the ceiling.

yikes, OP, how old are the kids?

I would've assumed/desperately hoped it was snacks for throughout the day rather than an actual lunch. but you say it's what they normally have?

people complain about the whole lunchbox police thing - and yes, most people know what's healthy, but the situation the OP describes is precisely why the state needs nannying!

I have my judgeypants on now!

For a kid that is bad, but it could be worse as a teenager I regularly had last nights left over kebab and a half bottle of cider for brunch!

mugglewump thats sort of how I feed mine. Not crazy strict but I work with children and definately see a link to extreme poor diet and poor behaviour and concentration.

....and expensive!