school lunch
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Topic: school lunch
Posted By: Candkids
Subject: school lunch
Date Posted: 06 March 2008 at 9:33am
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sarah has started school.
she loves it but . . . she doesnt eat anything!!!! sometimes she will have something at morning tea but thats it, at lunch she eats nothing and then comes home starving and sooooo grumpy! they have to sit down for 15min to eat lunch before the next bell rings for them to go and play. what do i do?? do all kids go through this phase? ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD 10.5yrs DS 6yrs DS 11mths 5 little angles watching from above |
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 06 March 2008 at 10:08am
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Kiya's doing this too (she's nearly 7)... no advice, but lots of sympathy!
We have a couple of rules... if she doesn't eat her lunch at school, she doesn't get anything else for afternoon tea (but she can finish off her school food). If Kiya does finish all her food at school, she gets to have something for afternoon tea. If she eats all her food at school for a week, then I up the amount of stuff in her lunchbox to include something a little more treat-ish. We got frustrated with the amount of food we were throwing away, so I have cut back what she takes to school to the barest minimum - a sandwich made with 1 slice of homemade bread/2 slices of bought bread and 1/2 a piece of fruit (either apple or orange). At home on the weekends she eats so much more than what she takes to school! Kiya has yet to go 5 days in a row finishing off her lunch at school, yet she's always hungry  ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: sparkle
Date Posted: 06 March 2008 at 12:57pm
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Maybe if she helped you make it she might want to eat it????Also pack food for morning tea and lunch separate so she knows when to eat what.
When I was teaching we had to watch our class eat, so we could monitor it. I was soooo mean at school and wouldn't let my 5 year olds go unless they had eaten a sandwich and a fruit!! (I had to deal with tired,unhappy children in the afternoon otherwise  ) ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 06 March 2008 at 6:45pm
| talk to the school. many schools are re-evaluating the way lunch times are conducted due to his very problem and may be reall interested in you input - or offer you some suport or advice. |
Posted By: fairsk8
Date Posted: 08 March 2008 at 8:49am
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Sparkle, I am the same here, I make the young ones at least eat half their sandwich and something else they have in their lunch box. Otherwise yes they do become very grumpy.
Have you tried getting her to help you make her lunch? That way it is something she helped make and she may eat it. ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com/"> 
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 08 March 2008 at 9:14am
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Sorry ladies... not convinced getting the child involved in making their lunch makes any difference. Kiya has been making her own sandwich for school for a little while, and its had no effect on how little she eats ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 08 March 2008 at 11:03am
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Sparkle our school is the same. All the children have to sit in their house colours and eat, this is especially good because it mixes young and older children. The teachers supervise the eating and then the kids are allow to play. They also have VERY stricts rules about the tyoes of food kids are allowed etc.. I have found getting both my girls invlolved with the lunch shopping and preparation is effective in them enjoying their lunches. Mercedes when thru a stage of loving pepper sammies and took them everyday where my older daughter prefers crackers and tuna or a fresh fruit salad and a chicken wrap which she makes herself. Goodluck catrad!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 08 March 2008 at 7:57pm
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I've found Maya eats way less at "big" school than she used to at preschool and I think it is a lot to do with them being less supervised than they were when they were eating at preschool. Some days she brings home more than she eats, but I'm just stubborn, if she leaves her muesli bar/crackers/raisins then they stay in the box for the next day and I just replace what she has eaten, or the "fresh" stuff that won't last till the next day. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 09 March 2008 at 9:57pm
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OMG Kels i did pepper sammies for about 6 months one year..I barely eat peppers now....!
would be interesting to see if the ex daycare kids eat better or not...we get sent home reports even now with what she ate for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea and always around the times they will be having it for school etc....hmmmmmm hadnt thought about that until now. |
Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 09 March 2008 at 10:07pm
Sorry I don't have any advice but I don't thin I will be having that problem with James we have to supple their lunch for daycare and they told us to give him more because he started taking other kids food  he just keeps on eating if it's in front of him it's not because he's hungry only a few times I have actually seen push food away because he has had enough.------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 10 March 2008 at 10:08am
| you have to supply daycare food???? OMG i did not find one in all the ones i looked at where they didnt supply it....that sucks! Ella gets morning tea and aternoon tea (fruit, sammies etc) and lunch - usually veges - all fresh and cooked on premises. hope you not paying too much for the DC? |
Posted By: shaz
Date Posted: 10 March 2008 at 9:31pm
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No daycare kids don't do any better. My kids are terrible for not eating their lunches. (they eat well at daycare)
Natasha's just to fussy and likes "fresh food" not old sammies. But she now makes her own muffins so takes them and fruit. Alex just didn't have "time" to eat. She eats really slowly at home so when she is at school she may eat one piece of fruit or half a sandwich but thats about all she has time for. If she sat and ate all her lunch she wouldn't have time to play  They have the fifteen minute rule as well....and that just isn't long enough.
My rule is you get nothing else to eat until your lunch box is empty and that works well for me. They come home and sit and eat out of their lunch boxes and then get stuck into homework. It makes life easy for me. ------------- Mum to Natasha Aroha 9/12/1995, Alexandra Makareta Waimarie 22/4/1998 and....Alyssa Frances Hopaea 18/03/2007 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 11 March 2008 at 10:45am
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Natasha DOES make yummy muffins! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: jaz
Date Posted: 12 March 2008 at 7:50pm
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Most of the kids Brooke started school with (including Brooke) didn't eat much at school especially in that first year. They're starving and scratchy by 3pm and will usually demolish the entire contents of their lunchbox on the way home. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 12:49pm
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In my experience (stepkids), the more interesting you make the food in the lunchbox, the more likely it is that they will eat it.
When I do my stepkids lunchboxes I make sure the food is different from day to day as I know that I don't like to eat the same food every day so why would they?! Sandwich sushi (rolled up sammies cut to look like sushi), chicken drums, cold pita pizza, pasta salad.... doesn't have to be expensive or much extra work, but yummy, healthy and a bit different. Lots of fruit (dried or fresh) and a few pretzels or crackers and nuts and she's sorted. |
Posted By: shaz
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 4:42pm
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I forgot to mention the one thing my kids do eat is left overs. Cold kumara is a favorite so I always cook extra. It helps that I don't like it anyway so they can have my share. Pasta salad and potato salad are really good to take too. ------------- Mum to Natasha Aroha 9/12/1995, Alexandra Makareta Waimarie 22/4/1998 and....Alyssa Frances Hopaea 18/03/2007
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Posted By: Candkids
Date Posted: 17 March 2008 at 7:03pm
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thanks ladies :)
she has started eating a bit more now, i cut down the amount i was putting in, she does help make it everyday she always has, mabye it was all the excitement of starting school lol who knows! :) ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> DD 10.5yrs DS 6yrs DS 11mths 5 little angles watching from above |