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starlettedir
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DC moms how do you handle foods you don't want your kiddo to eat?
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They are starting to move C up to the next room. She's going to begin eating meals in there(YEA no more packing). They gave me a menu today and asked me to make sure I was ok with everything. Most of the stuff are things I would give her but there are a few I'd rather wait on.
For instance most of the breakfasts are exactly things I would give. Oatmeal, Cheerios, waffles etc. but then one day a week they seem to have a junk cereal. This week it was Coco puffs. I never had sugar cereal and I really would rather not give it to her. Is it worth it though when it's just one day a week?
They have some cookies on one snack time and I said I didn't want her to have that or the ice cream listed for next week.
I'm also not giving her juice yet and wanted to hold off for a bit longer. They have that listed though with snack time. They have milk on there and we haven't transitioned to that yet. She's still taking a bottle of BM.
I'm for sure saying no to the milk and sweets. What's your opinion on the cereal and juice?
I just don't her to be the kid being made fun of because her mom is mean 
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Re: DC moms how do you handle foods you don't want your kiddo to eat?
For Evan we still send his beverages and ask that they only give those to him or water. We give him 1/2 water 1/2 apple juice, but this was a suggestion from his doctor since he has trouble with constipation.
I wouldn't want Evan to have the sugar cereal either and would request that they instead give him something that we send in his bag.
Don't worry about your DS getting made fun of for having different food - that comes later. Right now the biggest problem is that they tend to share their food with each other anyway.
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This. I haven't been too restrictive because I know it's what happens and, while she doesn't eat a ton of sugar/processed foods, I'm OK with a cookie or sweet cereal here and there. Her school doesn't give ice cream.
We send organic milk to school because it's important. We also ask that she only have juice once a day and that it's real juice (not just some kind of punch, etc.), mixed half and half.
I doubt she'll suffer ridicule because of what she eats at this age.
Can you still pack on days when they're having something particularly horrible?
Will your kid eat what you pack or swipe delicious horrible things from others? (This is what mine will do; so combating this is near impossible.)
We have made peace with what they serve at school. They don't do ice cream at our school, but I'm not convinced that waffles are much better.
I do request milk over juice, and Cheerios over sugar cereals. There is one particular teacher who is a sugar pusher, though, and she doesn't always remember. In all other respects, she is the best teacher - so, again, I made peace with it.
If we are truly doing what we should, we should pack lunches. We're human and that doesn't always happen.
I always crossed off that stuff and suggested alternatives for awhile, then I would forget some weeks, then at some point, I just didn't care. ;-) It seemed like they were giving it to them anyway - I picked him up one day and they said he really liked the lemonade. I told them I didn't want him to have juice and asked if they at least watered it down - yeah, they basically told me it's the powdered stuff. Nothing "healthy" about that at all. I was upset at first and tried to make sure he didn't get that stuff, then like I said, it just started becoming for tedious for me - so I was happy I held off as long as I could (and at home as much as possible), but eventually figured he could eat what everyone else was at school.
ETA: I don't think we can even pack lunches. We have gotten notices not to bring any food into the classrooms just in case the other kids swipe it and are allergic. I haven't checked, but I don't know if that also applies if you give it directly to the cafeteria staff, instead of letting them have it in the room - but you may want to check with your DC rules.
Our school gives 2% for kids and I just asked to be able to send Whole Milk for a while. I also requested no juice and nothing with nuts as per our pedi.
Like the others have said, there is NO way I could request C not have some of the snacks. They all share like crazy and if I asked for him to have Cheerios when everyone else had Fruit Loops, another kid would end up feeding him. In a high chair it wouldn't be so bad, but now that he sits at a table with 5 other kids it would be futile. I just focus on giving him good stuff at home. I would also send a second afternoon snack that was usually yogurt or fruit.
C is a beggar when it comes to food. If the teachers are eating, he begs like crazy for them to share.
this exactly. we send what we want him to eat and ask them to try to stick to just that unless a kiddo brings in snacks for the class for a birthday or something.