Comments on: What Do You Pack In Your Child’s Lunch?

By: tiptoe

tiptoe — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:33:26 +0000

I make my own peanut butter! It is amazingly easy to make if you have a good food processor. i don’t add anything to it–just buy a bag of unsalted peanuts and a bag of salted peanuts at the farmer’s market, and grind them up! The kids love it. Peanut butter absolutely should not have sugar in it. (Actually neither should jelly–it is already pure sugar!)

By: J_T

J_T — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:47:13 +0000

PB&J is only evidence of white privilege when you put mayo on it.

Now don’t even get me started on the heteronormative implications of bologna

By: Al

Al — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:34:13 +0000

PBJ sanguiches (It’s what they want and what they eat. Every. Single. Day.), fresh fruit, a snack (some kind of hippie thing like red hot blue chips or what have y’ze), and a juice box or chocolate milk. I like that Decatur schools have the kids pack what they don’t eat–it is a big help in figuring out what they like and don’t like.

As for organic vs. non-organic, I go by this chart:
http://www.fitlife.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/organic-cheat-sheet-560×373.jpg
and I go by the labels where appropriate:
http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/produce.asp

They get a good amount of sugar, but it is almost never HFCS, and I get the PB and J that has less sugar, but never sugar substitutes, because those are all the debbil.

I don’t consider us to be a crunchy hippie family. We are not hardcore against all artificial ingredients and such; we just do our best to minimize it while giving them food that is good for them, that they will actually eat, and that they won’t get teased about.

By: DEM

DEM — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:34:10 +0000

I just hope all of you people packing PBJ for the kiddos realize the racial implications of PBJ . . .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/is-peanut-butter-and-jelly-racist_n_1874905.html

By: J_T

J_T — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:35:32 +0000

And that table is at Trackside. Where kids are not allowed anyway!

Now if you want to discuss what we feed our dogs…