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Post by Chocolate Lover on Oct 27, 2016 10:10:45 GMT -5
I really couldn't tell you a whole lot else outside of the food and the names of the people I hung out with then. None of them live here anymore. (Thankfully in a couple of cases ) I remember a severe hatred of it and most of my classmates and feeling like it was more prison sentence than education. lol
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Post by MJ2.0 on Oct 27, 2016 10:17:14 GMT -5
DS got ham rollups, a cheese stick, multigrain crackers, a pickle wedge, grapes, and a milk for lunch today. But since deli meat has nitrates, crackers are garbage, and neither the pickle or the grapes were organic, I am still a horrible mom.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Oct 27, 2016 10:23:59 GMT -5
DS got ham rollups, a cheese stick, multigrain crackers, a pickle wedge, grapes, and a milk for lunch today. But since deli meat has nitrates, crackers are garbage, and neither the pickle or the grapes were organic, I am still a horrible mom. I started laughing before I even saw the bolded because I just knew you were going to say that Oh, and no you are not a horrible mom but one with a sense of humor and believe me that is the key to keeping your sanity sometimes
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Post by 973beachbum on Oct 28, 2016 7:43:25 GMT -5
My son gets a sandwich every day basically. Most days it is PB&J on whole wheat. I only buy the kind that says it has no junk like high fructose corn syrup and artifical colors and flavors but it's still bread so clearly that sucks. He also gets a bottle of water and a pudding pack. I did read the ingredients and it is mostly milk with a little sugar and cocoa powder with starch for thickening and a small amount of salt and a preservative. In a perfect world it wouldn't have the last two, but I don't live in a perfect world and in the grand scheme of things I think the 30% of daily calcium, and the couple grams of protein out weigh that. Some days he gets an oven roasted chicken sandwich. He won't eat lettuce or tomatoes so just the chicken breast and bread. Thruthfully he would eat an apple or other fruit if I put it in but he doesn't have time to eat it and the sandwich in the 17 minutes he gets from the bell till he has to be going to his next class. IMO if we want to talk about the biggest obstacle to good nutrition at schools that is what we should start with!
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Post by Lizard Queen on Oct 28, 2016 7:59:16 GMT -5
I just wonder why, if kids are meeting for just an hour, they need to have a snack associated with that. I understand the extra snack at school--it can be a long day, but a single soccer game or cub scout meeting? Why, just why? Can't these kids parents make sure they have something before or after if they need it? It just seems nuts to me.
(Oh, and for the record on school lunches, I never buy crap bread. It's wheat or oat or multi grain and it's not cheap.)
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Oct 28, 2016 8:14:29 GMT -5
My son gets a sandwich every day basically. Most days it is PB&J on whole wheat. I only buy the kind that says it has no junk like high fructose corn syrup and artifical colors and flavors but it's still bread so clearly that sucks. He also gets a bottle of water and a pudding pack. I did read the ingredients and it is mostly milk with a little sugar and cocoa powder with starch for thickening and a small amount of salt and a preservative. In a perfect world it wouldn't have the last two, but I don't live in a perfect world and in the grand scheme of things I think the 30% of daily calcium, and the couple grams of protein out weigh that. Some days he gets an oven roasted chicken sandwich. He won't eat lettuce or tomatoes so just the chicken breast and bread. Thruthfully he would eat an apple or other fruit if I put it in but he doesn't have time to eat it and the sandwich in the 17 minutes he gets from the bell till he has to be going to his next class. IMO if we want to talk about the biggest obstacle to good nutrition at schools that is what we should start with! I am surprised you are allowed to do that. Every co-op or every class my kids take - we are not allowed to bring PB anymore. On a side note - my kids are home with me and their lunches are VERY uneventful bc I am NOT cooking 3 gourmet meals a day. So it's either tuna or PB sandwiches or yogurt with something. In the winter I'll make soup every few weeks. And they certainly don't eat veggies at every meal, just at dinner.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Oct 28, 2016 8:22:51 GMT -5
I hated sandwiches, and I'm far from of "this generation." My poor mom had to be creative. Also, thermos and lunch boxes were not cool, and I didn't like school lunches, so everything had to go into a plastic bag in a brown bag. I still don't like standard cold sandwiches. As far as bread - it really isn't that nutritious. Filling, yes, but Americans eat too much filling non-nutritious stuff, like processed sandwich bread. We only herald it as a lunch box necessary because that is how we were raised. Cereal, crackers, pretzels - they are all garbage. A little in moderation, like everything else, isn't the worst thing in the world.
We don't buy cereal, I'm not going to deny my kids a pb sandwich if that's what they want.
What do they eat for breakfast? Breakfasts are the hardest thing for me bc I am NOT a morning person, so cereal and milk is so nice and easy
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Post by taz157 on Oct 28, 2016 8:27:08 GMT -5
My DD's elementary school allows peanut butter and also her prior DCP. It seems to be hit or miss with the peanut butter. Her old gymnastics studio didn't allow peanut butter and a DCP toured didn't allow it either. We didn't go with them but it wasn't because of the peanut butter, it was because we moved before she could go there.
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Post by yogiii on Oct 28, 2016 8:41:09 GMT -5
Cereal, crackers, pretzels - they are all garbage. A little in moderation, like everything else, isn't the worst thing in the world.
We don't buy cereal, I'm not going to deny my kids a pb sandwich if that's what they want.
What do they eat for breakfast? Breakfasts are the hardest thing for me bc I am NOT a morning person, so cereal and milk is so nice and easy During the week we all have steel cut oats with raisins and/or nuts. I make a vat on Sundays and you can just put some in a bowl with a little milk or water and reheat in the microwave. On the weekends they'll usually have a bagel with cream cheese or peanut butter toast and I have eggs.
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Post by swamp on Oct 28, 2016 8:45:19 GMT -5
I have accepted that I suck as a parent.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Oct 28, 2016 8:51:19 GMT -5
What do they eat for breakfast? Breakfasts are the hardest thing for me bc I am NOT a morning person, so cereal and milk is so nice and easy During the week we all have steel cut oats with raisins and/or nuts. I make a vat on Sundays and you can just put some in a bowl with a little milk or water and reheat in the microwave. On the weekends they'll usually have a bagel with cream cheese or peanut butter toast and I have eggs. When my kids had cavities last year and I started reading about prevention - some sites suggested that oats are a no-no I still do oatmeal a couple of times a week with home made OJ. My kids put figs, dates and fruit in it. My husband makes pancakes or waffles on weekends. I consider most "breakfast" food crap - cereal, bagels, toast, pancakes, waffles, biscuits etc. But I am sooooo tired of thinking about what to feed everyone 3 times a day that I am beginning not to care.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 8:54:50 GMT -5
Cereal, crackers, pretzels - they are all garbage. A little in moderation, like everything else, isn't the worst thing in the world.
We don't buy cereal, I'm not going to deny my kids a pb sandwich if that's what they want.
What do they eat for breakfast? Breakfasts are the hardest thing for me bc I am NOT a morning person, so cereal and milk is so nice and easy My kids will go through stretches where all they have is cereal, then they'll switch to something else. Older son makes omelets a lot and will make one for his brother too if he's got the stuff out which is helpful. I used to make egg and cheese sandwiches all the time, but I think they got sick of having them all the time. Younger won't even touch those anymore. He does like those frozen pancake/sausage sandwiches which I'm sure are deadly, horrible parent food, but they're great when we're running late and he has to eat in the van. Frozen waffles with either syrup or peanut butter is what older has been on lately.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Oct 28, 2016 8:55:13 GMT -5
I have accepted that I suck as a parent. By today's standards I should have been put in prison the day I gave birth.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 8:56:00 GMT -5
My DD's elementary school allows peanut butter and also her prior DCP. It seems to be hit or miss with the peanut butter. Her old gymnastics studio didn't allow peanut butter and a DCP toured didn't allow it either. We didn't go with them but it wasn't because of the peanut butter, it was because we moved before she could go there. Yeah, neither of my kid's schools have any restrictions on peanut butter, which is good because older son lived off of PB&J for years.
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Post by yogiii on Oct 28, 2016 8:56:24 GMT -5
During the week we all have steel cut oats with raisins and/or nuts. I make a vat on Sundays and you can just put some in a bowl with a little milk or water and reheat in the microwave. On the weekends they'll usually have a bagel with cream cheese or peanut butter toast and I have eggs. When my kids had cavities last year and I started reading about prevention - some sites suggested that oats are a no-no I still do oatmeal a couple of times a week with home made OJ. My kids put figs, dates and fruit in it. My husband makes pancakes or waffles on weekends. I consider most "breakfast" food crap - cereal, bagels, toast, pancakes, waffles, biscuits etc. But I am sooooo tired of thinking about what to feed everyone 3 times a day that I am beginning not to care. Yes, I'm sure since we all eat it so often, in 10 years it will come out that steel cut oats causes ebola or something. Anyway I don't think it's about good or bad parenting. Like MJ said, we are all trying to do our best for our kids and make things better than they were for us as much as we are capable of doing. My kids still eat crap sometimes but IMO I prefer it to be very obvious crap, chocolate, ice cream, chips. They know when they are eating that stuff it's a treat. They understand the difference between what is healthy and unhealthy. I just want the sugar I give them to be in an obvious manner, not hidden in a go-gurt. I really try not to judge what other people are doing because I know I'm only seeing that 1 hour or whatever not their whole lives.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Oct 28, 2016 9:00:37 GMT -5
I am brutally honest with my kids when it comes to food - they know what is junk and what is not. And I tell them that it's my job to teach them about good nutrition but it's their job to make good choices bc I can not make them eat or not eat anything.
If I had to guess today - I think my oldest will be eating a lot worse once he is on his own and my youngest will stay the same. The jury is still out on DS2.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Oct 28, 2016 9:05:37 GMT -5
I'm a horrible parent too. I used to make them oatmeal almost every morning, but now they're on a pop-tart kick. I know it's terrible, but it won't be forever. They'll get sick of them soon and we'll go back to something better for them. Even if they don't get sick of them, I'm not buying more for a while.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Oct 28, 2016 9:11:46 GMT -5
I'm a horrible parent too. I used to make them oatmeal almost every morning, but now they're on a pop-tart kick. I know it's terrible, but it won't be forever. They'll get sick of them soon and we'll go back to something better for them. Even if they don't get sick of them, I'm not buying more for a while. I got on a pink lemonade pop tart kick for awhile. They sounded gross but ended up being SO GOOD. They managed to replace Brown Sugar Cinnamon as my all time favorite Pop Tart flavor. I figure if my worst health sin is that I ate pop tarts for breakfast I am doing pretty good in the grand scheme of things. But I am a regular YM sinner so what do I know?
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Post by yogiii on Oct 28, 2016 9:19:12 GMT -5
Judging people who try to be healthy is just as bad as judging those who are not
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 9:19:47 GMT -5
I absolutely love brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 9:20:51 GMT -5
Judging people who try to be healthy is just as bad as judging those who are not Do people say you're a bad parent for feeding them healthy food?
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Oct 28, 2016 9:21:44 GMT -5
I absolutely love brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts. Never get them stuck in the toaster. The flames are really impressive.
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Post by milee on Oct 28, 2016 9:26:09 GMT -5
During the week we all have steel cut oats with raisins and/or nuts. I make a vat on Sundays and you can just put some in a bowl with a little milk or water and reheat in the microwave. On the weekends they'll usually have a bagel with cream cheese or peanut butter toast and I have eggs. When my kids had cavities last year and I started reading about prevention - some sites suggested that oats are a no-no I still do oatmeal a couple of times a week with home made OJ. My kids put figs, dates and fruit in it. My husband makes pancakes or waffles on weekends. I consider most "breakfast" food crap - cereal, bagels, toast, pancakes, waffles, biscuits etc. But I am sooooo tired of thinking about what to feed everyone 3 times a day that I am beginning not to care. We eat a lot of oatmeal, didn't know it was a cavity causer? Wonder if that's because it's sticky or was there some other reason? Oats are a traditional breakfast food here so that's what a lot of us think of, but if you're just looking for a whole grain*** food for breakfast, maybe try quinoa, teff or something similar. I don't like quinoa but a lot of people do and it or teff could be made in a batch a couple of nights before so all you'd have to do is briefly reheat a little in the morning for breakfast. The same types of toppings you eat on oatmeal would work on just about any whole grain. Have you tried chia pudding? It's awesome. Super easy to make the night before, tasty and reasonable nutritional profile. My kids don't like fish so chia is one of the few good sources of Omega 3 I can get down them without a fight. There are a lot of recipes out there but the basic idea is you mix 1 part chia to 4 parts liquid and any other flavorings you want. Then you let it sit overnight and the chia absorbs the liquid, becoming a pudding consistency. My favorite recipe is 1/2 c. whole chia seeds to one can (approx. 2 cups) coconut milk + 1/2 tsp honey. Let sit overnight and serve on top of blueberries or mango. When my guys were younger even though they didn't really like eggs much, they would happily eat eggs for breakfast because they liked the fact that they could make them. From about 3 or 4, they would crack an egg into a pyrex bowl (could use a mug or any other microwave safe dish), stir it with a fork and microwave for one minute... instant scrambled eggs. If they make them in the pyrex one cup container, the egg is also the perfect size to put on a whole wheat English muffin or sandwich thin to make an egg sandwich. Even if your boys don't get excited about making their own stuff or if you don't want them to, you could make up individual egg "cups" (just mix eggs and whatever veggies, cheese, meat you want into muffin tins and bake) and freeze them - easy to reheat in the morning for breakfast. *** Meaning ACTUAL whole grains. Not the general "whole grain" label that people keep falling for, but which doesn't necessarily mean that whatever crackers or bread they're buying is 100% whole grains.
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Post by milee on Oct 28, 2016 9:29:10 GMT -5
Judging people who try to be healthy is just as bad as judging those who are not Do people say you're a bad parent for feeding them healthy food? Yes. If you give them healthy food, you're one of those "crazy health nuts" who starves their kids and won't let them have the simple joy of a ____________. It's even apparently totally OK to make up things that you didn't say to make you look even more out there...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 9:33:38 GMT -5
Do people say you're a bad parent for feeding them healthy food? Yes. If you give them healthy food, you're one of those "crazy health nuts" who starves their kids and won't let them have the simple joy of a ____________. It's even apparently totally OK to make up things that you didn't say to make you look even more out there... Well, I might have missed it, but I've never seen anyone just out of the blue say anything like that unless it was in a defensive way after something like this..
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Post by milee on Oct 28, 2016 9:38:26 GMT -5
Yes. If you give them healthy food, you're one of those "crazy health nuts" who starves their kids and won't let them have the simple joy of a ____________. It's even apparently totally OK to make up things that you didn't say to make you look even more out there... Well, I might have missed it, but I've never seen anyone just out of the blue say anything like that unless it was in a defensive way after something like this.. If there's a factual problem with that statement, point it out and we'll figure out if it's wrong. But if you're just feeling defensive or guilty because you know you're feeding your kid junk, then going off on the person making a factually true statement says more about you than that person.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 9:40:58 GMT -5
I have a factual statement I'd like to make, but it would get me banned.
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Post by milee on Oct 28, 2016 9:42:34 GMT -5
Me too.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Oct 28, 2016 9:45:13 GMT -5
I'm a horrible parent too. I used to make them oatmeal almost every morning, but now they're on a pop-tart kick. I know it's terrible, but it won't be forever. They'll get sick of them soon and we'll go back to something better for them. Even if they don't get sick of them, I'm not buying more for a while. C usually wants cheerios and milk for breakfast. K is the one who wants variety. I need to leave at 615am so I try to get them up at 6, scramble to figure out her breakfast most days and run out the door. I'm usually running late but they want me to feed them breakfast so it's crammed into a 3 minutes slot or so. Today she got dry cheerios because I was running late. She's not a milk kid. But breakfast is usually carbs in our house.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Oct 28, 2016 9:47:49 GMT -5
Let's be nice, ok?
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