Lunch Box for Kids! Is it good to give money instead of Lunch Box??   

If you give your children a lunch box you know what they are going to be eating whilst at school. If you give your children money you have no idea what they are going to be spending it on, and children normally go for chocolate and stuff full of sugar which is no good for them in their young years.

I think it all depends on the age of the child. When my daughter was in kindergarten, she wanted to buy her lunch. The first day she came home and decided that she wanted to bring from then on becuase someone took her seat when she got up to buy. She was devistated by this. I try to pack something nutriciuos, but it is very hard. I know that our school lunches are nutritionally balanced until they hit high school. My older kids 13 & 15 yrs old like to take money and buy. I don't think that they are eating very healthy, but they would die if I had them bring lunch at their ages.

Lunches now are very exspensive. I send my son with a packed lunch and I put alot of stuff that is good for him but have found out that he does alot of trading to get things that are not so good for him. But in the end I just find that it is alot cheaper to pack a lunch for him.

Where my kids went to school they did not serve a lunch so everyone brought their own lunch to school.

I think that its better to give the children a lunch box, simply because you know what they are eating. My brothers used to take the money that my mother would give them and spend it on stupid things, then they would charge it and still get a meal. Well they ended up oweing like 50 dollars each, the school took my mother to court and she got put on probation because my brothers weren't using the money to buy lunches. So in my opinion I think that the children should take a lunch box to school, even if it costs a little more.

My childrens school provides a set meal so they can either but their meal there or take lunch from home. Depending on what the school is serving the kids sometimes takes their lunch. Sometimes they eat the lunch that the school provides. To pay for that I take a check up to the school at the beginning of the month that way I don't have to worry about someone taking or the kids losing their lunch money.

When my son was at school I used to make him a packed lunch every day. It meant that I knew what he was eating at school and that he was getting a decent healthy meal. However, I then found out that he was dumping his packed lunch and getting junk food instead with his bus money. Cheeky little monkey

i don't have kids at the moment. but when i have one and will be sending her/him to school already, i will make sure i will fix snacks for him/her or lunch. i wanna make sure my kid will be eating healhty foods in school. plus i wanna do it personally. it's one way of taking care of my kid.

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I think that it is a better idea to pack a lunch for your child rather than to give them money. Kids do not know the value of money as well as you never know what they will buy with it. Sometimes you have to if you have no food and need to go to the store, but heres a suggestion. Why don't you bring your child to the store when you grocery shop? Then they can help you pick out choices that they would enjoy to eat. Then everybody wins

I agree with you on this one. Giving kids money for school lunches, especially when she is just starting, is a poor decision. Kids don't understand the importance of healthy eating and really won't, if we don't give them guidance. She is too young to make a full decision on her own, she'll just choose junk food.
If they want to give her some freedom, they can give her choices the night before on what she wants to eat at school. That way she'll feel proud and learn how to make good choices foodwise.
Also, giving them money for lunches will be so expensive and not teach her the value of a dollar. Canteens charge at elast $5 for lunches and for lunch all week, there that's $25, $100 a month! Her parents could easily make her lunch for way less than that!