Parents of School Aged Children

Spyctre

My two in school are coming home either starved or with digestive issues from their school meals.  One refuses to eat anything except maybe those craft chicken nuggets or rolls.  The other is eating and suffering in the bathroom.  They are both limited in what they can really tell me about their meals.  One is moderate-severely Autistic, and the other has an auditory processing disorder which means she doesnt always hear normally so she doesnt talk normally.  The meals sound delicious!  They dont really look edible...  They mostly look beige.

Ive been thinking about getting those bento-looking boxes for them, make some good food.  Just when you already cook from scratch, making extra meals every day is really time consuming!  What have your kids said about their lunches?  Do you make their lunches?

sonae

My child will start school soon and I plan to make her lunches every day. I have seen pictures of school food on the internet and it looks like the cheapest and the worst. Full of additives and chemicals. Some schools have a full kitchen but only use the microwave to heat up frozen fast food. It does take time to prepare bento boxes but if you prepare everything at the beginning of the week, it saves time.

Spyctre

I started that with my first one, but she has Autism and is so picky.  We were doing this in an effort to make her want to eat other foods!  Only thing she decided to try new was chocolate milk.  She drinks so much during the week, she detoxes from sugar every single weekend!  

Frizzle12

MY kids are grown but my daughter was such a picky eater that I made her lunches until she reached third grade when she was allowed to get lunch from the salad bar. Before the salad bar she would come home starved because she had only eaten the corn off her plate. Have you tried having lunch with them to see what they are actually being served? It does take more time and cost more to make their lunches.

Spyctre

All schools here recently made lunch free for all.  Trump trying to take medicaid from pregnant women, and the government is feeding our children poison.

peajean

I suffered with Celiac for my school years without knowing it. My issues were usually more severe during the school year as I ate breakfast and lunch there; I always thought it was the lights giving me headaches and a sensitive belly giving me bathroom issues. Alas, it was the gluten in all the food doubled with an unknown milk allergy. If theyre having issues w/ school food, Id send them with some alternatives and see if that helps at all.

sundrop016

No one is as picky as my grandson.  He only eats bagels, french toast (which is fairly new), he used to eat chicken nuggets until his friend told him chicken comes from chicken feet or something like that, LOL, yogurt, pizza, frozen waffles and pancakes and thats it.  He wont eat veggies. meat, chicken (regular), or drink milk.  He had bad stomach pains because he wasnt eating anything.  My daughter finally bribed him to try new foods.  Hes doing a little better, but believe me its not great  He is a skinny little thing and hes 9 yrs old, but all the girls love him and he seems to be the school Mayor!  My son wasnt as bad as my gs, but he was bad. I gave him malted with an egg in it but thats when you could eat a raw egg.

penamickens88

For now I only have one that is in school and he only eats on the days when he looks at the lunch menu and sees if he likes it or not and if he doesnt i have to pack him lunch. So it varies.