Do you send your kids to school with a bag lunch or lunch money?

My son takes his lunch to school everyday right now. He was eating at school for the first half of the year. He did that last year too. He ate school lunch half the year and sack lunch the other half. I don't do certain things on certain days at all. Just what ever he feels like having. I will ask him what kind of stuff he wants in the morning when I am making his lunch. I will say this or that for things and he picks.

If ever by the time I have kids and they will be going to school I prefer to pack their food rather than buy themselves because sometimes kids buy junk food. To balance the situation maybe I'll pack some food for them and also give some money but only a small amount with the condition that they should eat their pack lunch.

My kids go to school with lunch money BUT only because we qualify for reduced lunch. Otherwise she'd be brown bagging it also and she's such a fuss bucket (if her friends are eating it she'll eat it) and won't get her stuff togeather in the morning it saves me gas from having to run her lunch if she forgets.

It is always better to send children with lunch and water. It inculcates regular eating habit of eating mostly home made stuff which is good for health. If children are used to home made things, they will avoid canteen made stuff. It is beneficial for long term health plan and avoiding doctors. Once in a while they can go with money, that they should always have with them not only for lunch but to meet any unforeseen expenses.

As a child, my parents just give me money to buy the foods I want to eat. I can say that it is nice, because they give me the freedom to choose what I want to eat. But as I grow up, I realized that I do not have the time to decide yet way back then. Since they give me a big amount of money, I will just buy anything I liked, or sometimes by social influence, I will buy the same foods that my friends are buying. (very childish isn't it???) Most of the time I buy: hotdogs, colas and junk foods. I did not like the foods being cooked in the canteen because it doesn't look appealing to me. During lunch, I normally eat BBQ pork and rice, but it tends boring sometimes, so if I am tired of eating it, I will shift to eating hotdog and rice. As a child I did not know the things such as e-coli bacterias, salmonella, amoebiasis, etc. which you can get if the food preparation is not right or not clean. I just realized it now that I am a grown up. On my own opinion, it still best if you send your child with both : bag lunch and lunch money. Bag lunch so that you know what they are eating is safe and nutritious (the only challenge for you is your child's honesty, that he really ate what you had prepared him. And that he did not just give it away to any friend or classmate) And send him just a little amount of money too so that he can buy at least a dessert from his lunch, a piece of chocolate perhaps. Because it doesn't also feel good for a child that he cannot buy the same thing that most of his friends are buying, a piece of candy or chocolate.

hi there i don't have children till now because i am just 22 yrs old ....... hahahaha

I don't have kids. When I went to primary school my house was within walking distance of the school, so I went home for lunch. When I attended middle school and highschool, I made my own lunch. My step-father always had a saying "if I make my own, I can't complain about what goes in it!" That was his saying, and that's what he did. I thought it was a great ideea, since if I made my own lunch, I could make exactly what I wanted. I also had a few dollars of my own money, if I wanted to buy a little something extra.

My kids eat at the schol usually. Some days though, I'll make them a bag lunch because I know they won't eat what is on the menu. Sometimes it surprises me what the school has for the kids because it's something that isn't even appealing to me, an adult. I want them to eat at lunch so once in a while I'll bag them a lunch.

If I will have my own children, I'd let them have their own packed lunch and a small amount of money for emergency use. I should have a weekly menu for that and to make sure that they're eating a nutritious food in school.

I would probably send them with whatever they are most comfortable with out of the choices. In winter i would put them on school dinners if thats what they wanted because as everyone knows the winter is very cold, and school dinners are normally hot and keep your body nice and warm when you eat them, although school dinners can always be the same food and it gets boring, so then id probably make them a packed lunch so they have whatever they want in their sandwhiches and things.

The school where we send our kids is only walking distance from home. Not only did we saved money but we also have the time to prepare their snacks and lunch. The maid brings lunch to them every day. They also have their snacks prepared for them. I rarely give money to them and they are used to this one.