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Post by Lizard Queen on Oct 28, 2016 9:50:20 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. Yeah, you do what you have to sometimes. A couple times, I've forgotten breakfast completely, so they had a granola bar in the car (they aren't usually terribly hungry in the morning, so I have to nag them to eat). This pop-tart kick has corresponded with my DH's hip surgery, and post-op PT every other freakin' day when he isn't allowed to drive himself yet. On top of all my DM's appointments, Wednesday taking 3 hours. Need I say more?
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Oct 28, 2016 9:52:59 GMT -5
I am not a breakfast person at all so it's always a struggle for me. I LOVE the fact that the school does free breakfast/lunch for all students and the daycare also does breakfast/lunch. If we want to talk unhealthy anyone else grossed out by the idea of Orange Crush and Root Beer flavored PopTarts?
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Post by yogiii on Oct 28, 2016 9:54:21 GMT -5
Well I've never had a poptart - let the judgements flow!
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Post by Lizard Queen on Oct 28, 2016 9:55:40 GMT -5
Well I've never had a poptart - let the judgements flow! You're not missing anything.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Oct 28, 2016 10:00:34 GMT -5
I am not a breakfast person at all so it's always a struggle for me. I LOVE the fact that the school does free breakfast/lunch for all students and the daycare also does breakfast/lunch. If we want to talk unhealthy anyone else grossed out by the idea of Orange Crush and Root Beer flavored PopTarts? We have that too. Mine won't eat it now.
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Post by milee on Oct 28, 2016 10:00:47 GMT -5
Well I've never had a poptart - let the judgements flow! My kids and I LOVE pop tarts. Goes to show you can feed them oatmeal or egg cups made with spinach the majority of the time, but you can't ever really get rid of certain cravings. I let them get pop tarts when we're on vacation. It's part of the family tradition - we go grocery shopping for the vacation house and they pick out pop tarts.
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Post by swamp on Oct 28, 2016 10:12:16 GMT -5
I am not a breakfast person at all so it's always a struggle for me. I LOVE the fact that the school does free breakfast/lunch for all students and the daycare also does breakfast/lunch. If we want to talk unhealthy anyone else grossed out by the idea of Orange Crush and Root Beer flavored PopTarts? The orange crush ones are passable. The root beer ones are vile.
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Post by yogiii on Oct 28, 2016 10:12:37 GMT -5
Well I've never had a poptart - let the judgements flow! My kids and I LOVE pop tarts. Goes to show you can feed them oatmeal or egg cups made with spinach the majority of the time, but you can't ever really get rid of certain cravings. I let them get pop tarts when we're on vacation. It's part of the family tradition - we go grocery shopping for the vacation house and they pick out pop tarts. There are a lot of things I've never had or tried (pretty much anything in the cookie isle except oreos). I had a very strange childhood. The New England classic fluffernutter comes to mind. With that one, I'm honestly afraid to try it because I know I'll love it.
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Post by swamp on Oct 28, 2016 10:15:08 GMT -5
You're not missing much in the cookie aisle other than the Keebler fudge stripes.
The rest aren't that impressive.
However, give me homemade cookies and I will make a pig of myself.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Oct 28, 2016 10:15:26 GMT -5
I am not a breakfast person at all so it's always a struggle for me. I LOVE the fact that the school does free breakfast/lunch for all students and the daycare also does breakfast/lunch. If we want to talk unhealthy anyone else grossed out by the idea of Orange Crush and Root Beer flavored PopTarts? The orange crush ones are passable. The root beer ones are vile. Everything besides strawberry and blueberry seems wrong to me...then I tried chocolate fudge. OMG! I try not to branch out. 200 calories per pastry isn't worth it to me, even for the chocolate ones. (Most of the time.)
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Post by Opti on Oct 28, 2016 10:16:54 GMT -5
The orange crush ones are passable. The root beer ones are vile. Everything besides strawberry and blueberry seems wrong to me...then I tried chocolate fudge. OMG! I try not to branch out. 200 calories per pastry isn't worth it to me, even for the chocolate ones. (Most of the time.) I grew up eating the cinnamon ones.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Oct 28, 2016 10:22:35 GMT -5
Well I've never had a poptart - let the judgements flow! I've never had ANY junk food until about 17 yrs old - so there! It simply didn't exist where I am from, so that might have something to do with it
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Post by yogiii on Oct 28, 2016 10:26:06 GMT -5
Well I've never had a poptart - let the judgements flow! I've never had ANY junk food until about 17 yrs old - so there! It simply didn't exist where I am from, so that might have something to do with it That's part of it, since one parent was foreign and one was pretending to be, everything was homemade. No processed foods allowed.
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Post by milee on Oct 28, 2016 10:36:42 GMT -5
Well I've never had a poptart - let the judgements flow! I've never had ANY junk food until about 17 yrs old - so there! It simply didn't exist where I am from, so that might have something to do with it I wonder how I'd feel about junk food if I'd grown up differently? A lot of my issues with food have to do with things that are completely separate from taste or nutrition.... they're more about the feelings associated with foods. If that history of feelings weren't there, I suspect I wouldn't even like a lot of the junk. Pop tarts are probably a good example. We never had Pop Tarts growing up but a lot of my friends and neighbors did. I always thought of them as being incredibly yummy (forbidden fruit) and also another example of how people with money could buy any food they wanted, so it was the double whammy of not only wanting the taste but desperately wanting to have the same stuff the other kids did. (We thought the neighbors who lived in a doublewide trailer next door were "rich" because they could afford snack food.) So now that I'm an adult, I have to admit Pop Tarts aren't all that amazing taste-wise, but I still really want them... probably because of what they represent not what they actually are. Food is complicated.
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Post by yogiii on Oct 28, 2016 10:45:22 GMT -5
Money and health are very similar. A lot of it is about delayed gratification and self-control. Also I think spouses or friends can act as good or bad enablers.
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Post by taz157 on Oct 28, 2016 10:54:57 GMT -5
I've never had ANY junk food until about 17 yrs old - so there! It simply didn't exist where I am from, so that might have something to do with it I wonder how I'd feel about junk food if I'd grown up differently? A lot of my issues with food have to do with things that are completely separate from taste or nutrition.... they're more about the feelings associated with foods. If that history of feelings weren't there, I suspect I wouldn't even like a lot of the junk. Pop tarts are probably a good example. We never had Pop Tarts growing up but a lot of my friends and neighbors did. I always thought of them as being incredibly yummy (forbidden fruit) and also another example of how people with money could buy any food they wanted, so it was the double whammy of not only wanting the taste but desperately wanting to have the same stuff the other kids did. (We thought the neighbors who lived in a doublewide trailer next door were "rich" because they could afford snack food.) So now that I'm an adult, I have to admit Pop Tarts aren't all that amazing taste-wise, but I still really want them... probably because of what they represent not what they actually are. Food is complicated. My FIL grew up in a family with 8 kids and his dad left the family when my FIL was 8 (my FIL is in his early 80s). His mother was a SAHM. When his dad left, there wasn't alot of food in the house. I've been with my DH for 18 years and there is always food in that house, especially snack-type food. If there is ever a nuclear attack, go to their house as there is always a stockpile of food. Admittedly, my FIL will say part of it is due to how he brought up.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Oct 28, 2016 11:05:33 GMT -5
I've never had ANY junk food until about 17 yrs old - so there! It simply didn't exist where I am from, so that might have something to do with it That's part of it, since one parent was foreign and one was pretending to be, everything was homemade. No processed foods allowed. s Both of my parents were foreign, and though we were allowed the occasional pop-tart and had cereal all of the time, most food was made from scratch. My parents were convinced that American food was shit, and little expense (except for shopping different stores for sales) was spared to buy the best tasting food they could. We got European-style bread and pastries from a local bakery weekly. Poptarts pale in comparison.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Oct 28, 2016 11:17:50 GMT -5
Most of elementary school my babysitter fed us cold cherry pop tarts and Dr Pepper. Somehow we didn't have tons of cavities. We grew up to be healthy adults.
I'm not a morning person at all and I'm allergic to egg whites so my breakfast options are limited. I've been eating yogurt for the last couple years.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Oct 28, 2016 11:20:43 GMT -5
I've never had ANY junk food until about 17 yrs old - so there! It simply didn't exist where I am from, so that might have something to do with it Food is complicated Yes, that was the whole point of this thread. Pop Tarts are vile, but you and your boys are welcome to have them without judgement from me. All I ask is the same courtesy when I talk about my kid eating stuff like whole grain bread/crackers.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Oct 28, 2016 11:26:31 GMT -5
today DS got a Sun butter and banana sandwich on "whole wheat" bread (no PB allowed), a cheese stick, grapes, and an apple juice. Breakfast was banana bread, an orange, 3 strips of turkey bacon, and milk.
Dinner will be chicken nuggets (he whines forever about eating regular chicken in non-nugget form. And yea, I have made him nuggets, but he refused to eat them because they were not dinosaur-shaped and "overcooked" according to him), tater tots, and carrot sticks. I don't care - I'm fresh out of adulting by Friday night.
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Post by milee on Oct 28, 2016 11:33:35 GMT -5
Yes, that was the whole point of this thread. Pop Tarts are vile, but you and your boys are welcome to have them without judgement from me. All I ask is the same courtesy when I talk about my kid eating stuff like whole grain bread/crackers. You have missed or ignored where I've been saying things like that all along - it's complicated and not black/white. You also seem to have missed where the point of my initial reaction wasn't pointed at the fact that any one food was junk - it was pointed at the fact that the thread seemed directed at the best way to feed kids junk on a daily basis. I believe I even specifically said that eating junk every once in a while wasn't a problem, it's when the overall diet is junk that the problem arises. Reading the first few pages of this thread, it appeared based on the number of times certain foods were mentioned that the bulk of the foods being sent in were junk... and that's the problem. Not any one food and not any particular junk being eaten every once in a while. But if you want to put up another straw man post implying someone's critical of you for not feeding your son "organic" food or "vegan water" (isn't all water vegan?), go ahead... I don't really care if you want to judge us for eating pop tarts.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Oct 28, 2016 12:19:00 GMT -5
I don't remember it being about the best ways to feed your kids junk for lunch. I guess I have to go back and re-read this thread....
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Post by swamp on Oct 28, 2016 15:13:47 GMT -5
Lunchables. There is no excuse for that crap.
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Post by milee on Oct 28, 2016 15:17:21 GMT -5
Lunchables. There is no excuse for that crap. Pretty sure that's one of the foods MJ listed. But now you can be included in the group of us crazies who rants about feeding kids nothing but wheatgrass and water...
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Post by swamp on Oct 28, 2016 15:39:25 GMT -5
Lunchables. There is no excuse for that crap. Pretty sure that's one of the foods MJ listed. But now you can be included in the group of us crazies who rants about feeding kids nothing but wheatgrass and water... My children eat far too many chicken nuggets and kraft mac & cheese, but I draw the line at lunchables!!!!
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Oct 28, 2016 15:40:18 GMT -5
I am not a breakfast person at all so it's always a struggle for me. I LOVE the fact that the school does free breakfast/lunch for all students and the daycare also does breakfast/lunch. If we want to talk unhealthy anyone else grossed out by the idea of Orange Crush and Root Beer flavored PopTarts? The orange crush ones are passable. The root beer ones are vile. I don't believe you that it's passable. The watermelon one also sounds nasty.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Oct 28, 2016 15:48:21 GMT -5
I just came back from a co-op where I am not allowed to bring
any kind of nuts or anything that was processed in a nut facility any kind of gluten any kind of dairy nothing with any additives
Co-op is 4 hrs long and is from 1-4pm
I very rarely buy lunch meat, but I guess my kids will be living in the salami heaven mixed with carrots, apples and grapes bc I am completely lost as to what to bring for their lunches.
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Post by sbcalimom on Oct 28, 2016 16:00:21 GMT -5
My two daughters have hot lunch at school and I have no idea what it is given that the menus are in German. They seem reasonably happy with the food and given the schools other policies on snacks and water I assume it's pretty healthy. School does specify no sweets or treats for snack and water only.
We have to do breakfast and snacks now which is quite a change from before where they had everything included at daycare or school.
Even snacks alone are enough to drive me batty so there's no way I can handle lunch too. They both want virtually the same thing every day but just different enough that I can't pack it without asking. And of course, they can't eat the same thing because that would be too easy.
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Post by chiver78 on Oct 28, 2016 16:14:33 GMT -5
Lunchables. There is no excuse for that crap. Pretty sure that's one of the foods MJ listed. But now you can be included in the group of us crazies who rants about feeding kids nothing but wheatgrass and water... I've been a passive reader of this thread, since I feel like I can gain some easy ideas for myself for weekday lunches, but I have to chime in here.... I'm pretty sure MJ said that she makes her own "lunchables" out of similar items that aren't the overprocessed pre-packaged shit in the yellow box. but I could be wrong. I've been wrong before.
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Post by milee on Oct 28, 2016 16:19:14 GMT -5
This is a timely thread due to the explosion that X had when he found out DS was buying lunch instead of eating his own. I usually make/pack him a sun butter and jelly sandwich, multi grain tortilla chips/pretzels, a milk or water, and a fruit. Afternoon snack is apple juice, a cheese stick, and multi grain crackers. He tends to eat the lunches I give him, but he could stand to have more variety. I'll mention the thermos of mac and cheese to X - that will definitely ensure that DS eats his lunch. I also bought deli ham so he can have ham roll ups with his cheese and crackers as a homemade lunchable some days. I am also considering getting a couple of pizza Lunchables so he's not as tempted by the hot lunch line.Nope - she does mention homemade lunchables but then specifically mentions getting pizza Lunchables. But IMHO that's part of the problem here. People aren't actually reading what was written, they're going off their impressions. That's why MJ keeps bringing up the criticism about not feeding "organic" even though nobody but her mentioned it.
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