My 14 year old son has proved that fruit "does" fill you up!

It's good you send fruit, with your kids to school. Do you give them a sandwich or anything to go with it? Fruit is good, but it doesn't last long for me. I eat it for a snack for when I am needing something if I get hungry between meals. I try to eat 9 servings of fruits and veggies each day. I wish my daughter ate more fruit. I have apples sitting on the counter, but I'm the only one that eats them.

Oh..sorry to hear your son went hungry! Still, it's a blessing that he didn't have his tuck shop money with him to be tempted to buy something not so healthy. I will attest to the fact that fruit is very filling and healthy and low-cal. I work an odd shift. I work 2:00 to 11:30 in a convenience store. I don't get designated breaks so as a rule, on the days that I work, dinner is not an option. Convenience stores don't offer up many healthy foods as a rule. I bring in an orange or apple or some grapes and eat those in between customers and I do not feel hungry. I commend you as a mom for seeing to it that your child eats healthy. On my days off, I fix healthy meals for my daughter. She is 17 and on nights that I work, I leave her with plenty of healthy options to eat. She prefers to eat healthy and very rarely does she ask to get fast food or junk food. She works in a fast food place and almost never will eat their food. Your a good mom, Anne!

Well now! That iS very interesting indeed! I especially like the idea of letting them pick their own fruit, so they are more likely to eat it all.. very good!

Kids and their excuses. A person should be washing their fruit before they eat it anyway. Have you heard of the cataloupe poisoning this last summer? I forget to wash my fruit sometimes and this story in the news really gave me pause to think about the facts.

And of course in some weird, inexplicable, illogical way, it will turn out to be your fault that this happened.

aha brilliant!! .. and they would have said the fruit doesnt fill them up and to give them something like crisps and chocolate instead lol! how funny! but why oh why did you give the poor boy a different lunch box? lol!

I don't even know your youngin' and I'm proud of him. My husband seldom eats fruit. My brother seldom eats fruit. I eat fruit all the time. I would eat at least one fruit per meal if I could. Right now my husband is buying the food and I can't wait until I earn enough $ to buy my own food. I just bought and brought two kinds of apples to a pot luck and one kind was gone except for 2 apples and my husband ate them! (miracle). The other bag only a few apples were eaten. Do you know that if you leave apples over night in the fridge, the flavor gets better? Give it a try if the apples haven't been put in a fridge. The most flavorful apples are the ones that get a mild frost before they're picked here. Take care.

In my opinion, having at lunch fruits, is very welcome. They are healthy and yes, they fill you up. However, again, my personal opinion, is that a boy at a growing age needs something more than only fruits. The body can not rely only on fruits, specially if he is running and keeping his body trained. He need lots of carbs too. Great that he is saving his money for a special purpose, the question is how long his body can go without proper food. I am not trying to say nothing else, than a normal body need normal food in order to produce "the gas" to keep it going. Maybe the fact that the fruits "went flying on the floor" is a way of asking you to prepare something else too.

Oh that's so sad for your boy. He went hungry because of that, and having no money at all. So what fruits were they, that they went flying into the floor?

hello, It is really nice to hear that your son is not hating fruit at all. right? Good job as a mom. Well, maybe your kid is having a hard time to his new lunch box he rather the old one. So, let him used it because he got hungry when he used the other one.

the fruit is not fattening to. I think it's still good to eat fruit because they are super and they are very helpful. but you must know well what most useful for your child. nice day!

Shame about the accident Anne glad you've gone back to the old lunch box and that your son is having and enjoying proper food. Just wondered have your offspring ever pestered you to take them to MD's or any of the unhealthy fast food joints. I have an issue with schools in our area where they don't allow any drink bar water not even flavoured water. I have a Granddaughter with ADHD who will not drink water, she goes without a drink all day long. As we should all know now 2% dehydration reduces attention by 20% therefore this rule of nothing but water is very harmful to her.

oh dear your little master chose on to stay hungry and not to eat rubbish.that means he has a great habit installed in him.

You do it very wisely that you give them fruits every day. And I'm really amazed that they put up a healthy lifestyle and your eldest son is saving his tuck shop money. You can be proud of them :) Have a lovely day!

Why couldn't he eat them? Could he have not taken them to the sink, and washed them off, or did they completely break? Yeah, fruit can definitely fill a person up. Any food can fill a person up. Nice to know that he has something he likes so much. Good for you.

I love stories about when people's kids do good things. So often we just hear about when they mess up. I think that kids are basically good.

That is great that your children really do enjoy their fruits. My children do as well and it really comes as no surprise to me that fruit does fill you up because of the fact that it is full of the vitamins that we need to be able to function well. For example, fiber is plentiful in fruits and vegetables. My children love to eat fruits and vegetables as well and it is something that I'm very happy about because there are too many people in the world today that only eat foods because of convenience.

That's a great way to prove a point! I don't normally eat a lot of fruit except for the once in a while banana (and the recent frozen grapes that I've grown a liking to), but my kids always have a fruit in their lunch boxes. I'm just happy that they don't take after their dad, and that they like fruits.

Those kids know what they are doing, and you have done a good job as a mother too. When I was in middle school and high school, I don't bring my own lunch, more likely I eat at school, not bad with their food though. Now, I am working, but I don't bring my own lunch either.

Sorry for being late with response. Well done you! This is your hard work that paid off. You give your son fruits and he feels need to eat them. My congratulations! You should be mother of the year!