RUN LUNCHABLES OPEN 12:17 EST

[ugotcarrie]

http://esampling.lunchables.com/index.html

[fakesurfers]

WHat do you get for this?

[irwin]

I just got my free lunchables fun snack today!

It was a yummy brownie!

[spicymeatball]

people, please stop feeding your children lunchables. america's children are too fat!! i can't recall the statistic, but i think roughly 1/3 of the children in this country are overweight. adults shouldn't eat them either.....

[ironchef]

meatball?

i hope you mean turkey meatball. and turkey breast, at that.

[Jenny]

Originally posted by spicymeatball
people, please stop feeding your children lunchables. america's children are too fat!! i can't recall the statistic, but i think roughly 1/3 of the children in this country are overweight. adults shouldn't eat them either.....

Umm, okay... I agree that there are quite a few children in this country overweight. But, my son isn't at all. He eats 1 lunchable a week, when he goes to Mother's Day Out at our church and he has to have a lunch. Almost every week, he gets the sliced turkey, cheese, and crackers. lol I disagree that that will make him overweight. Even the pizza or the hotdogs, etc. won't make a child overweight, unless you add potato chips or ice cream every time they eat one. Even 1 lunchable a day is NOT going to cause your child to get fat. Especially if you feed it to them right, with a baggie of carrots, etc, like I do. Just think about what you are saying before you post next time, okay?

[WhiskeyPapa]

This is not directed at you, Jenny, but...

I find it hard to believe that anyone who reads freebie websites wastes money on Lunchables. They have got to be the biggest waste of money I've ever seen. Now, normally I can understand paying a bit more for convenience, but these things are crazy!

Buy a box of Ritz, a package of cold-cuts and some ziplock baggies and you have Lunchables for a year!

[Edited by kb0wwp on 04-24-2001 at 08:56 AM]

[Jenny]

You said the magic word: Convenience. My son is 3-years-old. His daddy wonderfully gets him up on Friday mornings so I can sleep in late. Which means that things need to be as SIMPLE as possible. Also, when he is at MDO, there are 20 kids from ages 2-4 (I think 4...) and 3 teachers. We are trying to make it as simple as possible. Stick a lunchable and a sippy cup of juice in a lunch bag with ice and it will stay cool until they are ready to eat. And all the teachers have to do is take the plastic off and put it in front of him. It's wonderful.

[Edited by Jenny on 04-24-2001 at 10:35 AM]

[welfareloser]

amen. judge not those with childrens if you gots none (or if you got one but your not the one taking care of him/her day in and day out.) i have a 16 month old. i might have been judgmental enough to agree with meatball and kpww-whatever-the-heck before i had a kid. now i have a 16-month-old, and i don't have enough time to go to the bathroom.
how bout YOU try to get all the way through an assemble-it-yourself snack like you described while a toddler is trying desperately to drown himself in the toilet (and screaming at you as you deny him the privelege)

not to mention the fact that lunchables go on sale a lot. and the taco bell lunchables kick ass. i lived on those when i was in school.

and i feed my kid braunschweiger (you know, liver sausage - main ingredient: cholesterol) and chocolate chip eggo waffles for breakfast. you don't like it, go get a phd in nutrition and then come back and bitch.

the eggo waffle is actually as low in sugar as whole-wheat bread, with similar nutrient value (he gets his fiber later in the day when i feel like dealing with the mess of cleaning up after "i will only feed myself" fruits and vegetables ordeal). it is also a frisbee and a wheel and keeps him happy long enough for me to eat breakfast. and the braunschweiger is pure unadulterated fat; my kid is underweight.

you know what else? i let him watch tv.

you know what else? i buy him a happy meal whenever we're on the road for more than three hours.

you know what else? i took him outside to play today and he rode my scooter all by himself up and down the driveway. without a helmet.

judge me!

oh, and i hope i don't miss this next time - i've tried like four or five times - thanks for the update, carrie!

[pennypinch]

Yeah, I don't even have kids, and I can say unequivocably that lunchables are not the fat-makers. The reason American kids are gettin' tubby is not the food, it's what they do with the calories. So many just sit on their asses and watch TV now.

I've been known to have one of the worst diets around. There's nuttin' I love more than a pastrami sammich with the break dipped in the pastrami au jus (aka grease). I ate Mickey D's regularly as a kid, and I don't think I've ever had a body fat percentage of over 4 or 5%. Same goes with most of my buddies.

It's all about the activity, lunchables-naysayers. Would kids be better off with perfectly calibrated protien shakes and fruit smoothies? Maybe, but you try and shove that shit down their throats. Let 'em eat what they want; but make sure they work it all off during the day instead of just letting them rot in front of the computer/PS2/TV!

[kissdisap]

I ate a lot of everything as a kid, but I'm still underweight. It could be I used to have a high metabolism but now that I'm 21, I've gotta start watching what I eat. I do have a belly, but I think that's just because of all the beer - not the happy meals and the butter and the KFC and the sausages and the ....you get the point.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Originally posted by welfareloser
amen. judge not those with childrens if you gots none...
how bout YOU try to get all the way through an assemble-it-yourself snack like you described while a toddler is trying desperately to drown himself in the toilet (and screaming at you as you deny him the privelege)

he he... We have 8 kids. No joke. Been there, done that (8 times).

Imagine buying Lunchables for 8.

That box of Ritz and a pack of cold cuts is looking even better...

[welfareloser]

a mormon! we found a mormon! let's git him! either that or your fertility treatments got a mite bit out of hand...

[theorangeone]

Originally posted by welfareloser
a mormon! we found a mormon! let's git him! either that or your fertility treatments got a mite bit out of hand...

or an old school catholic. i'm one of 6. :) i grew up down the street from a family of 13. irish catholic all the way.

[brettman]

Am I just clueless or did this deal go away? When I go to the link I can't figure out where to go for the freebie.
Thanks for any suggestions