PARENTS! Do you pack your kids lunch or do they buy at school?

My boys are teens now, so taking a lunch is just not cool lol. They buy theirs at school. ~Remember to give out +'s when it's deserved & select best responses. It helps us all out ;-]

When my children were young and in school I always packed their lunch. The trick with the older ones is to pack a lunch that the other kids will envy. I watched a program on T.V. once about a retired chef. He started a lunch program at the local school. He made healthy things like his baked potato. He hollowed out the cooked potato, mixed it with chopped broccili, grated cheese, and chopped onions and filled the empty potato skin with the mixture. The kids just loved it. If they had had healthy food like this when my kids went to school I certainly would have let them eat in the school cafeteria. I always added 'love notes' in their lunches.

I pack my childs lunch...being autistic there are many foods she will not eat and she is on a low wheat low dairy diet. So I have control over what she eats and know what I do send she will eat.

I do both, depends on what the school is making. My kids dont like fried fish and my daughter doesnt care for pizza.

My kids aren't at that stage yet. You can't buy your lunch until you reach high-school around age 12. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I like the idea the previous poster suggested of allowing them to buy one thing only.

We pay. It's only 3.60 a week which is alot cheaper then packing

I do not have a child but I work with them and see what they eat. Please tey to aviode feeding your children luncahbles they are so bad for them.

My 13yr old takes lunch, my younger 2 (10 and 9) buy.

My kids pack a lunch and get to pick ONE day a week to buy lunch at school. This is more affordable for me, and if they only get to buy once, they choose carefully and it is a special thing for them.

i haven't children

we pack lunch at home

Mine does both. She makes me read from the school lunch calendar every morning then she makes her decision. I don't mind either way, but school lunches are not cheap!

My kids buy their lunch, though they would like to pack it a lot of times. I find it is just so much easier to buy it, and its really not that expensive.

i dont have child if i had i would packed.

I give them money for them to buy their lunch in school

My kids buy at school. I tried to go to school an hour before their lunch so they can eat well however, i find it hard at times especially when i run out of a house help...Right now, they're happy eating at school...I only prepared food for them in the afternoon so when they got home, alls ready...

My daughter eats a school lunch most of the time. We get a monthly lunch menu and on the days that she doesn't like what they are making I pack a lunch for her. It is usually only 2 or 3 times a month.

I eat at school unless we are having something really gross like chicken fajita's are schools suck big time

My kids eat at school as I think it's probably better for them than a cold packed lunch. However, there are times when my kids refuse to eat whatever's for lunch that day.

My kids always take their lunch. The only days that they can buy lunch at school is for hot dog or pizza days. My kids don't like hot dogs so they just ususally have piza every friday. I wish that they could buy thier lunch at school because sometimes it difficult to pack things that my son will eat. His favorite lunch is peaniut butter sandwiches, but since his school went nut free it has been a challenge. My daughter, on the other hand will eat almost anything. Her favorite lunch is crab wraps.