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is this the worst lunch ever

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dolphin13 · 02/07/2010 14:44

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.

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Rollmops · 02/07/2010 15:23

Tiz' not food fit for humans in my book and food nazi I am not. Hate junk with passion, over salted, fatty, full of additives that you can taste. Yuckkkkk.
Perhaps the Ritz cracers could pass but the rest should be binned.
How can anyone consider such garbage a treat is beyond me...[cross and confused]

muggglewump · 02/07/2010 15:31

dolphin13
I don't ban any foods, I teach moderation and provide a balanced diet.
I also cook around 90% from scratch so DD grows up with a good knowledge of cooking, but I'm not a martyr to it and always have a pack of fishfingers in the freezer.

Food is about enjoyment as well as nutrition, and there's nowt wrong with enjoying junk, so long as you know the limit and have a wide range of foods to choose from.

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dolphin13 · 02/07/2010 15:43

muggglewump

Yes thats what I do. Mine have pizza tonight because Friday is treat night. We have a rule, sweets on Saturday only. Other than that we simply try to eat a healthy balanced diet.

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OrmRenewed · 02/07/2010 15:44

Yuck!

Even my DC would get a bit freaked by all that junk.

MathsMadMummy · 02/07/2010 15:53

dolphin how old were the kids?

BranchingOut · 02/07/2010 15:53

The worst lunch I have ever seen (in the hands of a Reception child) was a family-sized iced bun.

Just the bun. In a paper bag.
With a cherry on the top!

mummyplonk · 02/07/2010 15:58

Lol Branchingout, "with a cherry on top", Fruit!, does that class as 1/2 of 5 a day.

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dolphin13 · 02/07/2010 16:00

MathsMadMummy

As I was looking after the children as part of my job I don't want to out myself. I will say they were under 10.

BranchingOut OK that beats mine

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Mumcentreplus · 02/07/2010 16:00

Where was the sandwiches/roll type things?

What my DDs have for lunch usually..

1 carton pure Apple/orange juice/ribena

wholemeal roll/sandwich with cheddar & cucumber/wholemeal crackers/wrap
apple wholemeal crackers

Walkers lite ready salted crisps

with a chocolate biscuit/mini-brownie/flap-jack or fromage frais/raisins

on Fridays they are allowed a sweet roll with either jam or Nutella (if they remember to remind me )

mumbar · 02/07/2010 17:47

my ds won't really eat a sandwich unless it's jam as he doesn't particulary like them.

Has pepper/cucumber/carrots sometimes cold ham /pasta/chedders. frube, fruit and cakey thing.

tbh on a day out he'd have chedders, cheese string, pepperami,raw veg, fruit, cake etc as prefers snacky type meal.

Its about balance - she says as he's eating his friday night sausage and chips from chippy

emptyshell · 02/07/2010 18:24

Worst I've seen (sent in for an infant school packed lunch) was two Jacobs cream crackers and half a chocolate easter egg. That was all.

muriel76 · 02/07/2010 18:35

My sister's son had a friend who had two Cadbury's mini rolls and a bag of crisps for his packed lunch.

My nephew told her about it and said the mum must have run out of bread!

desertgirl · 02/07/2010 18:41

apparently one of the children in DS's nursery class has brought in nothing but chocolate in his lunch box (covers morning snack and lunch) ALL YEAR despite policies discouraging chocolate, teacher entreaties, calls from the headmistress, etc. And another one just has crisps and biscuits.

Sad.

SloanyPony · 02/07/2010 18:50

At least there wasn't a bottle of Lambrini to sharpen the appetite...

Tortoise · 02/07/2010 18:54

On a school outing a 7yr old had a huge Ginsters cornish pasty in his lunch box. I Thought that was very bad.

theressomethingaboutmarie · 02/07/2010 18:56

I don't want to seem too fussy about this but there's a heck of alot of criticism of mums in this thread. Do the dads have no responsibility for providing nutritious food for their kids?

Yes, the examples provided of bad lunches are of course revolting but let's not abstain dads from responsibility too.

Fimbo · 02/07/2010 18:56

I work in a school and one boy came in with nothing but a lunchbox full of salty popcorn.

bibbitybobbityhat · 02/07/2010 18:57

I think a Cornish Pasty is ok for lunch. Not brilliant but an awful lot better than biscuits, chocolate, crisps or a cold Happy Meal. Find this thread depressing .

fullofbeanstoday · 02/07/2010 19:07

We have a boy from Iran in my nursery. He brings the worst dinners I have ever seen. Left over chinese and indian meals, a Mcdonalds burger with no bread, a cold spicy fish soup etc.

I eventually tried to explain to her a sandwich would be better so next day she bought 2 slices of cold toasted bread filled with some unrecognisable meat and walnuts with a full packet of biscuits, can of shandy and a yoghurt tipped into a sandwich bag!!!

I hate the idea of the food police but some people really do need it!!!

desertgirl · 02/07/2010 19:08

Never mentioned mums; have the feeling in my chocolate and crisps cases the actual fillers of the lunchboxes may well be maids. Still the parents' (both parents) responsibility obviously.

grapesandmoregrapes · 02/07/2010 19:13

theressomethingaboutmarie - there's no mention throughout the thread of it being just mums packing lunchboxes...

TheFallenMadonna · 02/07/2010 19:15

DS would love a Cornish Pasty for lunch. Mine have school dinners, but when they do have packed lunches (trips etc), DS isn't keen on sandwiches. He would prefer eggy bread or pizza (cold - bleurgh). Or pasta with cubes of cheese or ham and salady bits. Or cheese and crackers, although that wouldn;t sustain him. If the boy likes cold spicy fish soup, that sounds all right to me TBH.

muggglewump · 02/07/2010 19:29

I guess I don't think to mention Dads as I'm a lone parent.

Anything I give DD is better than what her Dad gives her-nothing.

Still, giving kids junk, and nothing but junk constantly is wrong.
I believe including all foods is right, and kids want junk, so I allow it, in moderation, in the hope that she will not go mad on it when she is out of my control.

She has had her home made veg korma now, and asked for cash for the Icey van.

She got £150 and bought some candy floss which she shared with her friends (their mothers said no to cash for the Icey van, I didn't as it's the first Friday of the holidays and why not have a treat!), but sharing means she got about two bites.

She'll be back in shortly asking if she can have some blueberries, or an orange I bet.

The child never stops eating!

sunchild77 · 02/07/2010 19:34

WOW £150 for the Icey Van....I was lucky if I got 50p :D

toccatanfudge · 02/07/2010 19:37

"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."

lucky you - if you'd tried that with my DS1 and 3 when they were 2yrs old you'd have ended up with a very dehydrated child. DS1 now at 9 1/2 will drink water, still not there with DS3....

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