11/24/2023 0 Comments Pre kindergarten lunch ideasI just keep his lunches really small - a couple slices of fruit, half a sandwich, and then some raisins or other snacky thing that he eats in the morning. He's still eating when the other kids are done and then he wants to go out and play with them. My 6yo son has always been both a light eater and a sloooow one, including in preschool. Also, will he always be a small eater? Did your small eater suddenly blossom into a big eater at any time in childhood? I imagine sending him off to high school with a slice of apple and a few almonds. My question is-do I just accept this and pack very minimal lunches? What kinds of quantities of food do parents pack for lunch for their minimal eaters? I'd love to know how much you are sending with them. His teachers just say that he is just more interested in play then food. I am almost tempted to send him with a couple of crackers and a banana. I don't think my portions are too big compared to what other kids his age are eating, but maybe? I feel a bit hopeless and uninspired when it comes to making the food because he won't touch it. We throw out a lot of food for his other meals too. I get sad throwing the food out everyday and gasp at the money we are wasting. I feel guilty because of all the food he is wasting. Bringing food with me in the car at pick-up sometimes helps this. He then craves sweets and whines and melts down when we get home. But, I am concerned now because on two of the days he stays longer and when I pick him up I can tell that he has low blood sugar. I am accepting that this is just the way he is. Socially he is doing well at the lunch table, he just doesn't eat. I don't think the (fruit and carb) mid-morning snack at school helps as it fills him, but I can't forbid him from partaking in it. I've let him make his lunch, I've included him in the food selection, I've given him lots of options and packed his favorite foods in a cool lunch box, but he still barely eats a thing. Last year he only had lunch one day at school and he barely touched it then. The problem I am dealing with now is that he is taking lunch to preschool 3 days a week and it usually comes back uneaten-two bites from a sandwich and maybe a handful of raisins. He is just much more interested in play and the world, then food and it doesn't take much to fill him up. Sometimes it is only three bites from a sandwich and an apple wedge. My four year old is not a big eater-never has been. Healthy snack/lunch for a picky kindergartener.Anyone had a similar situation and figured it out? When we pick him up on days when he hasn't eaten anything he's super tired and grumpy. So, for example, I probably shouldn't highlight the fact that I was totally fine and it was not really a big deal that I didn't eat at school although that's what I'm trying to tell myself about him.īut I would really like for my kid to be able to eat at school. I have not mentioned this to my child, because it seems hard to empathize on this subject while also encouraging him to eat. I was fine, I just ate a lot of snacks after school and survived, although it wasn't nutritionally ideal. When I was a kid I also basically never ate lunch at school because the cafeteria smelled bad and I did not like being squeezed in with all the other kids and their lunches and open-mouth chewing. It does not matter what foods I pack, how cute I make them, etc - he likes the foods, but just does not like eating them at school. He often asks the teachers for privacy during lunchtime and they're good about setting him up at a table far from everyone when they are able to. It seems like he does not like eating near the other kids and the other day he told us he couldn't eat because there was a bad smell. My preschooler basically never eats the lunch I pack for him, no matter what's in it.
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