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Packed lunch getting nicked

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  • euronorris
    euronorris Posts: 12,247 Forumite
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    Delain, I understand. I was the same. Didn't have the best diet growing up (plenty of crisps, chocolate and fizzy drinks, as well as unhealthy meals of burgers etc etc), and I am finding it soooooooo hard to stop drinking diet coke, for one, and not shovel crisps into my mouth every day for another.

    I've also found that friends who were brought up with much healthier diets, tend to eat healthily as adults and don't crave the junk as much as I do. Most Dutch people I know eat healthily too, and the whole table stared at me when I started tucking into a packet of crisps at lunch on my first day! haha. I was told by all that crisps are NOT a lunch item!
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  • dark_lady
    dark_lady Posts: 961 Forumite
    maybe if crisps, chocolate and sweets werent in the lunch box, there would be no temptation for the thieves.
    why wasnt there a sandwhich for the boys lunch?
    deffo go in and speak to school, the lunches could be placed in a storecupboard maybe, also cooler that left in the classroom with the sun shining in
    back when my sons were small, they are 16 now, sweets or chocolate was sometimes given on way home, as a treat, not in the middle of the day, when they needed to concentrate on their school work

    Maybe if banks didnt store money on the premises there would be no temptation for bank robbers!!!!!!
  • King_Nothing
    King_Nothing Posts: 854 Forumite
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    Another vote here for laxative/chilli cake.
  • ellas9602
    ellas9602 Posts: 721 Forumite
    izzybusy23 wrote: »
    Edited to say; and yes my DD concentrates perfectly fine in school too so no lack of concentration due to the 'devil food' inside her packed lunch.. which I will add she will save some of it to eat at the after school club rather than eating everything at lunch time.

    I'm not surprised, her lunch is much more reasonable and wholesome than JUST a bag of crisps and a bar of choclate and you know it is. No-one is dictating merely offering opinions in an open forum. Would yoou send your DD with just a bag of crisps and chocolate and no sandwich? It's you who needs to get off her high horse.
  • jetta_wales
    jetta_wales Posts: 2,168 Forumite
    ellas9602 wrote: »
    I'm not surprised, her lunch is much more reasonable and wholesome than JUST a bag of crisps and a bar of choclate and you know it is. No-one is dictating merely offering opinions in an open forum. Would yoou send your DD with just a bag of crisps and chocolate and no sandwich? It's you who needs to get off her high horse.

    She said that she forgot to put the sandwich in, it was probably sat on the kitchen worktop.

    Chill out.
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  • ellas9602
    ellas9602 Posts: 721 Forumite
    She said that she forgot to put the sandwich in, it was probably sat on the kitchen worktop.

    Chill out.
    No she didn't say that she'd forgot. She said it would have been a sandwich but she didn't put it in, whatever that means I'm perfectly chilled, I was trying to get Izzybusy to chill out actually.
  • izzybusy23
    izzybusy23 Posts: 994 Forumite
    edited 22 June 2011 at 6:29PM
    ellas9602 wrote: »
    I'm not surprised, her lunch is much more reasonable and wholesome than JUST a bag of crisps and a bar of choclate and you know it is. No-one is dictating merely offering opinions in an open forum. Would yoou send your DD with just a bag of crisps and chocolate and no sandwich? It's you who needs to get off her high horse.

    Erm; the OP has been TOTALLY SLATED over the contents of her child's lunchbox when she came on here about her son's lunch being nicked... People think they are too damn righteous sometimes and it bugs the hell out of me... and no, why should I get off my high horse when nearly every subject on lunch boxes results in the same food bashing; same old drivel peddled out time and time again. Who the hell do people think they are to judge somebody by what they give THEIR child for lunch? People never cease to amaze me and should learn to stick to the topic of discussion rather than turn it into an OP bashing thread.
  • mrcow
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    izzybusy23 wrote: »
    Erm; the OP has been TOTALLY SLATED over the contents of her child's lunchbox when she came on here about her son's lunch being nicked... People think they are too damn righteous sometimes and it bugs the hell out of me... and no, why should I get off my high horse when nearly every subject on lunch boxes results in the same food bashing; same old drivel peddled out time and time again. Who the hell do people think they are to judge somebody by what they give THEIR child for lunch? People never cease to amaze me and should learn to stick to the topic of discussion rather than an OP bashing thread.

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  • Blobby8_2
    Blobby8_2 Posts: 2,009 Forumite
    izzybusy23 wrote: »
    Erm; the OP has been TOTALLY SLATED over the contents of her child's lunchbox when she came on here about her son's lunch being nicked... People think they are too damn righteous sometimes and it bugs the hell out of me... and no, why should I get off my high horse when nearly every subject on lunch boxes results in the same food bashing; same old drivel peddled out time and time again. Who the hell do people think they are to judge somebody by what they give THEIR child for lunch? People never cease to amaze me and should learn to stick to the topic of discussion rather than turn it into an OP bashing thread.
    Maybe because they know what theyre talking about ?
  • izzybusy23
    izzybusy23 Posts: 994 Forumite
    Blobby8 wrote: »
    Maybe because they know what theyre talking about ?

    Yeah, course they do.. nothing to do with feeling self righteous
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