I provide snacks and parents provide Lunch?

[kidlove]

I have had issues with "picky eaters" in the past, and have come to the decision to have the parent pack the lunch for the child in the hopes that at least they would eat something! When doing this in the past I ALWAYS made in clear to the parent, that for many reasons (other children wanting what the child has i.e. brownies cookies and such, or the sake of eating healthy) although they have been asked to provide the lunch I still must request that the meal contain all food groups, have no packaged/processed foods and NO JUNK. (cookies,puddings,br ownies etc.) all the parents I have asked have done a pretty good job of following this request, I would also check the meal when it came in in the am, if there was "garbage" food, I would remove it without the child seeing and put in in the fridge until it was time to go home...throw it back in the lunch box and SEND IT HOME! They usually got the message and stopped sending the "junk". it still is your house, so you can set the standards of quality of meal even though you dont prepare it. Good luck ,and please let us know how it goes with ALL bringing their food, I often wonder what it would be like.