Basically saying: “I can’t fathom how you love your kids this much.”

Core memory; my lunch was taken because my parents could put more money in our account and we didn't quite qualify for free. The box lunch was a single slice of cheese between white bread and some goldfish crackers. I was the only one who had one, bit I think my feelings were hurt more because they talked to me like it was my fault there was no money And then the janitor called me over, and had tears in his eyes as he gave me five dollars and said "Here you go sweetie, anything to see that smile again." I was so happy, I'm sure I thanked him but I can't remember if I did or not and it kills me to not remember. There was a lot of stuff that happened at home around that time and that little bit of kindness still makes me tear up when I think about it. There were other times I went hungry growing up, there were times I had to bring bags of pennies and the lunch lady just took it with a look that told me she was going to take my word there was enough money, and it was the best she could do

Putting effort into food is what shows you that you‘re loved. Ppl that get mad at this are ppl that clearly either feel insecure about not putting in that much effort, or they are ppl that don‘t appreciate their kids.

Not me crying when you said “you made it” while watching this for lunch ideas. Got me right in the feels lol

As a lunch lady I can say that I take pride in making the lunches as edible as possible but as the county I work for insists that the kids don’t want the homemade and healthy meals so we have been serving frozen crap thrown onto a sheet pan for years now. If you don’t like the lunches please take it to your local schools board/ county representatives please! Us lunch ladies are sick of serving frozen garbage. It saves on labor costs but at what cost to the children?

They may be kids, but I bet even they can spell school right😭

As someone who stopped eating lunch for years because the school lunches would destroy my stomach it honestly just might kill them…….there are prisons that serve better food Also this is so cute!! I love people who make cute lunches for their family, I hope to be that kind of mom someday. Keep it up I’m sure your kids love it

i had free lunch, and then one year, they randomly decided i no longer qualified and needed to pay full price. I packed a lunch every day after that. You're doing great!

Dude as a HIGH SCHOOLER id prefer this lunch over what they serve me at school

Oh no a parent that cares about their kids 😂

it felt really nice having you say the bit about having your lunch taken away and traded for something else. it felt good to be seen 😭

At the elementary schools I attended in Canada, there was no school lunch. School lunch programs are great if they can prevent kids from going hungry. :)

I was never able to eat school lunch because of celiac disease. I would be physically incapable of eating pretty much anything I got from the school, and eating gluten for years when you have celiac can cause a lot of health issues. In other words, if I was unlucky enough, school lunch theoretically could’ve killed me.

Our school lunch, aside from Pizza, is all home made in house. Volunteers come in daily and make taco salad, pancakes, chicken quisadilla, spaghetti, taco dip, grilled cheese, chicken nuggets & mashed potatoes, walking tacos, sloppy joes, or mac & cheese. Each meal is $5 and comes with a choice of side (usually baby carrots, an apple or an orange) and a container of milk. We are so blessed to have the program, my kids order pizza every Monday and then 1-2 other meals per week, depending on the choices. I only have to pack once or twice a week. They dislike Fridays choices, so they get a lunchable that day, and other days a jam sandwich with a fruit and treat side, or a bowl of cereal and milk.

In my school, if you didnt have money for food you were given a cheese sandwich. Not a grilled cheese, just a slice of plastic cheese and a hamburger bun. It was usually cold and you were only a fruit and milk alongside it. Nothing else. There were free lunch programs, but they were strict and a lot of kids got assed out because they just barely didnt meet the parameters to get free hot lunch. Its really sad cause thats not what you feed growing kids.

I hated it when the lunch ladies would take food away from people who couldn't afford it, I'd always pay for their food if I was in line. I loved seeing their faces when the lunch lady who just snatched their food placed it in front of them after sitting down empty-handed. My school was in the UK and used to hand out £5 vouchers once a week to kids on Pupil Premium. No one else could get them. I usually paid for lunches in summer, as I'd be the one in the friend group to buy everyone some water, or if one of my friends didn't have money on their student card.

We had cheese sandwiches, an apple or banana (we didn'tget to pick), and white milk. We were not allowed to go across the street to get lunch. If they found out we had money in our pocket, they would take it and say, "we need your account number to settle your debt." After which we would still be given only the cheese sandwich, the apple or banana, and the white milk, even when we had $5 over in our account. All because they couldn't trust us to settle our debts in a timely manner.

that's much better than school lunch but man, they really do think that school should be a semi prison that you get to leave for about 5 hours a day

"ugh just give them money and neglect them. anyway, why won't my kids ever visit me?"

Why are people so pressed about a mom making lunch for her kids??? Like im sorry your parents didnt care about you but you dont have to take it out on her 🤷‍♂️

Depends on where you live, I live in an extremely poor area so we quickly went free lunch for all because well most of us couldn’t afford lunch as is. A lot of kids are on financial support as it is. But if you live in the higher tax bracket areas than you may have to pay for you lunch

In Australia it’s pretty common to bring your own lunch but we do have canteens that provide hot and cold and sometimes the canteen lady will give you one for free if you can’t afford

I remember they took away my lunch out of my hands and I didn't even get a sandwich.

side note-- i'm a preschool teacher, and this model and brand of lunchbox is my favorite! it's airtight, lightweight but bulky enough to be sturdy, no lid floating around, and the kids can easily operate them by themselves. 10/10!

School lunch had actually sent many kids home sick because of how bad it was, and half the time it's not enough food

NUMBER BLOCKS SANDWICHES!!! These are so cute.

Mannnn I would've preferred peanut butter and jelly over the lackluster stuff I would get. All I got on the poor poor days? A pathetic one slice grilled cheese sandwich, no that isn't an exaggeration that was all that was allowed for us kids with no money. You weren't even allowed sides, no fruit, no vegetables, nothing except occasionally a cheese stick MAYBE on the good day.

I remember some kids trying to tease me because I had packed myself leftover deer burritos (with homemade tortillas, because store tortillas were a luxury) and I shot them down with how clearly my lunch tasted so much better than their cardboard pizzas. No I am not Hispanic.

My mom never made my lunch when I was little. For field trip lunch though my grandmother would sometimes pack us something nice. That's why I started working in the cafeteria in 3rd grade, you got to pick your field trip lunch if you worked in the cafeteria. In 6th grade a kid got in trouble for selling the better stuff for field trips to kids so they'd end up with stuff they'd actually eat.

omg thank you so much for the idea!!!!! my brother loves numberblocks and when i saw you drawing it i knew i had to get edible markers!!!!! sometimes i imprint smiley faces on his bread and toast it to create a pattern but this would be so nice and vibrant!! youre such a gem!

I would cry if my parents cared enough to do something like this for me, I’m sure that commenters kids feel the same way. I developed anorexia due to the quality of my schools lunches (not nervosa, that’s the kind you do it to lose weight, for me I wish I could gain weight because it is causing health issues and i desperately want to eat) and still have trouble with my appetite and barely able to eat sometimes at 19. I couldn’t eat the bread because half the time I was biting into dough, couldn’t eat the meat because it was never fully cooked, i lived off the premade sides and deserts which I had to pay my own money for the deserts. That’s if I could eat because most days the look of the food made me so sick I couldn’t. That was highschool, I remember having cheese sandwiches for lunch in elementary school often bc my mom either didn’t have money or forgot to give me money. It was a slice of cold American cheese on white bread with a milk and some mayo if you want..

When I was in school, we couldn't actually afford food so each day the school allowed me £2.10 to spend, and a full lunch was 2.50, which they would only sometimes give me if I looked pitiful enough XD Only thing I could afford with it was a sugar cookie/waffle and a banana milk So yeah, school lunch is bullshit, thank you for making your children pack lunches ^^

Honestly that looks kinda like my lunch and I’m a senior in highschool now… it doesn’t look much but it really does keep me satisfied

My high school gave a cold cheese sandwich, an apple, and a milk if you didn't have lunch money. I didn't quality for free & reduced lunch so if I didn't have lunch money or food I brought with me, I stayed in the bathroom. I didn't want the embarassment. You're having fun with their lunches and I think that's lovely:)

I got free lunch but theres so many kids that I rarely get anything good (even more so when my class before lunch is so far from the cafeteria) so I just make my own anyways, even free lunch doesn't help sometimes

Yea as someone who had to suffer through a laundry list of things related to school lunches, I plan to work hard so my kids don’t need to go through that

Years ago when I was in school, I remember that I didn’t have lunch money that day and they tried to give me a pb and jelly sandwich. I’m allergic to nuts and was so hungry I just started sobbing. The lunch lady looked at me like 😐👀 and says I can get lunch that one time but I have to bring money the next time. Packed my lunch from that day on lol

The school lunches we had made people physically ill I started making my own lunch to bring to school in middle school because of it I graduated in 2022

My little sisters school lunch will literally give her a stomach ache so bad if she eats it. Rather pack it then watch her roll around sick all day after school

Fully agree, kids should have free lunch. I got free lunch bc my mother was Army so we qualified. My kids have gotten free lunch for now. Va beach school district is playing around tho so we might not have that next year 😳

The numberblock bread is so cute omm-

I didn't realize till just now thats why I the lunch ladies started giving me a paper bag lunch with a sandwhich as a kid. Damn, that realization hits different as an adult

I remember when they'd take my lunch except they didn't give you anything like a pb and j you just didn't eat lunch. It happened like maybe 2 times so whenever I knew I wasn't going to eat lunch that day I'd just sit at the table instead of getting into the line and tell the little bit of friends I had that I just wasn't hungry

My state does free lunches for all public school students, which I think is really awesome.

Our school lunches were pretty good thankfully, but yeah we were a penny over the free lunch requirements haha, so I relied on the schools free afterschool snack (they gave us cookies or a muffin with some milk, nice school)

Aww the number blocks are so cute! It’s great the effort you put into these lunches :)

School lunch cost about $3 per day on average. $3.50 will get you a loaf of bread that’ll last the whole school week. Packing lunches are just cheaper, and it allows for children to eat something they actually want.

NUMBER BLOCKS!!! My kid would cry of happiness

I remember showing up to the lunch line in elementary school for a hot breakfast. I don't know if they do that anymore but they used to serve us hot breakfast in school. Anyway, I got up to the end of the line and I was a couple quarters short. They took that plate of warm food out of my small hands and gave me a veggie tray for breakfast. I mean sure is food is food and it filled my stomach. But the embarrassment of not having enough money had me reeling. I somehow felt like a failure even though I had never earned money before

I bought a sandwich at my school and it literallt had mold on it, i had eaten half of it before I noticed and was out the next couple of days from food poisoning.

Making food the people you love is one of the best things in life. ❤

half the time my school didn’t even make the free lunch alternative which was just burger buns, and a slice of cheese warmed up in the oven. one year it took 3 months to get me on free lunch. one of my teachers at the time would keep giving me money for it until she told the lunch ladies i need to be on free lunch. i think all this happened when my family was the poorest, and i would legit just eat a sandwich for dinners most nights, and we had holes in the floors, and no ac .

Honestly my school lunch is pretty good, they give pizza (not the best but it’s better then other things I’ve had) and chicken sandwiches (normal and spicy) and hamburgers and cheeseburgers every day

I got bullied a lot at primary school. One of my most precious memories is my mum adding a heart-shaped note to my lunch every day with something encouraging on it, and she cut my sandwiches into shapes like bunnies and stars. Everyday expressions of love like this matter

Are the drawings on the bread number blocks? I used to love watching that show when I was little :)

My elementary school had Miss Asbra's lunch money lending service. If you didn't have money you go and talk to her. She gave you a ticket the ticket got you lunch. She would call your parents and tell them. And if for some reason you still couldn't pay your lunch was covered by a unnamed older gentleman who came to all the school paying off all lunch debts once a month. He passed when I was in 11th grade and left money to the city to create a endowment to cover lunch debt. The endowment says the creator of the fund tried to have school meals be free for every child in the country regardless of income during his time in government but failed so supporting as many school systems in creating a fund to prevent kids from going hungry at school is what he wanted his legacy to be.

I’m 17 and I took less lunch then that when I had to take lunch because I broke my foot and couldn’t go to the cafeteria because it wasn’t accessible

Those are the cutest sandwiches ever!

Those people are mad cuz either their mama didn’t do this for them or they are jealous they aren’t doing it themselves. Don’t feed em. Just love ya life 🙏🏻

Love those Numberblock sandwiches!

My school was actually decently funded in high school. Lunch ladies actually made the food from scratch every day. I got to help and get free lunch that way 😂

I live in Canada and our schools dont provide food at all except through 3rd party programs for poverty, everyone brings their own food

at my elementary school if we didnt have money we didnt eat at all. sucked especially because my fam was basically homeless. makes me happy to see parents understand

why are people hating on FEEDING CHILDREN. these kids are clearly getting a meal of things they'll eat, with a goal towards nutrition. but even if there weren't bell peppers or nuts or anything like that... everything has a time and place. lunch is to give kids the energy they need to finish the day-if little kiddo won't eat veggies without a parent there, thats whatdinner is for! better for the kid to have protein to fill them up and keep them full, and carbs for a quick brain boost immediately. by all means, if your kid will pack and eat a perfectly balanced meal they should, but if they cant... they should still have something to eat. no child should be forced to go hungry. also, this applies to adults too. eating perfectly balanced and complete meals is fantastic and worth applauding, but if you cant make that happen... then eat something that isnt complete. leave out your vegetable if youre exhausted and cant make one. make instant ramen if thats all you can mamage (if you have it, soy sauce, hoi sin, and a little lime will level it up so much. pay off to effort ratio is great). you deserve to eat. Do it scared. Do it poorly. but do it.

"cant believe you do all this" Its fun and cute and a well balanced meal, i cant believe that person cant see the value in acts of kindness and love. Also from the look of this (only seen this one video) the hardest part looks like the sandwich doodle. This isnt a "doing all that" situation, its just packing a fun lunch! Im 27, my partner packs my lunch for work for me in the morning (i can do it myself it just makes them happy to surprise me) and its so much better than going out to eat at lunch. Today everyone was jealous of my star crunch they tossed in.

I used to be the kid that had to have the free and reduced lunch. My mom was a single mom working two jobs just so we could try to sustain at home. I was able to pack my own lunch by the time I made it to middle school, thank goodness, because the lunch quality declined significantly and I was a picky eater. Who else dipped their nuggets in that sorbet they’d give you? That was heaven as a kid. Got bullied for that when I switched schools. Someone went and told a teacher and the teacher asked me to stop. It made me incredibly self-conscious. Wish I told my parents about that then because they said they would’ve addressed the school about that.

The “can i get 2 dollars?” Was jaded in straight racism lmao

Lunch at least in my state is free for public schools. I don’t know much about private schools. But if you want more lunch you have to pay. You only get 1 meal for breakfast and lunch. Also school lunch either tastes inedible or is inedible.

the peanut butter sandwich. let me tell you i SOBBED.

I packed my own lunch or walked to go get food (we had a 1 hour open campus lunch with atleast 3 restaurants near by) cause the food they served us was practically prison food. And I'm not joking. Everything came in these soggy cardboard/paper dishes sealed with plastic containing food you couldn't even recognize, and any of the unserved/uneaten ones would get sent to the local prison to feed the inmates. They were like TV dinners, but make them literal garbage. If we had microwaves available I probably could have had a better meal from an actual TV dinner. This is from a school in the capital city of my state. The only time I ate them was when I was homeless and didn't have a choice. I qualified for free lunch but some of my friends didn't so sometimes I'd use my lunch to get them food when their parents couldn't swing it, or I'd get someone extra if they were still hungry. You know the school system is fucked when your friend gets denied school lunch because they have an outstanding lunch balance and their parents can't afford to pay it.

School lunch can actually kill certain kids depending on their dietary. Mate needs because of how little schools care about it. Some of the food that is not suitable for grocery stores is given to schools as well. School lunch definitely can hurt.

Lunch is paid by taxes at my school

No you don't get anything anymore if your out of money they take your tray and make you sit down

To be fair, (and it does depend on area) lunch at my school is 40 cents and pretty much everyone gets it, so it isnt embarrassing.

at my school(high school), depending on your familys income, you can apply for free lunch or a discounted lunch but if your income is too much you dont get it, the regular lunch is like 2 dollars maybe, but the discounted lunch is 30 cents for breakfast and 40 cents for lunch

Free or reduced lunch is still a thing. At least in my state. It also usually includes breakfast.

I can't watch with audio but my toddler brother watches number blocks too! He's 3 and can already do multiplication because of it!! It's a great show

Breakfast and lunch are free at Minnesota public K-12

“Skool lunch” 😂 And yes school lunch is 3-5$ now and it is not great, can’t speak for others but, the last time I had school lunch the meet was green and cold and rubbery; I’m pretty sure that it was a bare minimum of what can legally be considered meat. Continue to pack your children’s lunch.

In my school, you have to pay £2.40 for a small portion of bad flavoured pasta or this mid Sunday dinner on a wednesday and a 330ml drink/small dessert. The only good thing we have is Chicken Katsu Curry and that's £2.00 and isn't part of the £2.40 meal deal so if they want a drink or dessert with it they need to pay an extra 75p.

we don’t get a peanut butter sandwich. they give us two pieces of stale bread with a brick of cheese in the middle… can’t forget the 15 seconds of microwave to barely heat it up though

First year of highschool id get packed lunches, 2 year onwards we would just walk to the corner shop

"I cant believe you actually take time out of your day or have the extra time to sweetly hand make their food, just pay for it!" what

"school won't kill em" idk about y'all but my school gave us food poisoning

I like raspberry jam so thats what i put on my pb and j. I also try to get the kind without high fructose corn syrup.

I remember when in California you used to have to pay for lunch, in elementary school I remember getting lunch and them saying I had no money left, they took my lunch and gave me a cold sandwich that was just 2 slices of bread and cheese in the middle, we had a share basket so I just placed the sandwich in there and grabbed whatever snacks I could form the share basket. Now that I’m in high school they’ve made it free ever since Covid for every school student, I think it’s the best I don’t have to worry if I’m going to go hungry or not

I qualified for free lunch. Signed up for everything turned in all the forms necessary, they gave me lunch the whole first week of highschool. Then something happened I'm not sure but they told me I owed money for lunch. Peanut butter sandwhcih would have been preferable to what I got which is nothing. My mom didn't have time to make us lunch or really money to spare for food. It took like a week or two before it got fixed. I dont think I ate much at all those two weeks. So quit criticizing this mom, I wish my mom had the time, money and energy to make me school lunches instead of literally having to starve. They're children, we don't need them to be tough. We need them to be loved.

That comment is jusy oozing with "I dont want to put the effort in for my kids and you make me feel bad about it so you're the problem"

“Skool” is killing me😂😂

I remember being in elementry school and having them tell me i could only have a cold cheese sandwhich. Thia was at the start of my Eating disorders, so being denied food while already struggling to eat sucked. So that lunch i just sat there and cried. I threw my glasses on the table ( breaking them ) and ill never forget that lonely empty feeling when everyone else sat away from me because of my lunch

Man when I was in school I was on reduced lunch and the few times I ran out of money on my acct I couldn't even get a PB&J. Glad some of these peoples schools were better. Also Mama packed a great lunch.

my school does free lunches for everyone ever since covid, best lunches ive ever had (they arent good but i can take as much fruit as i want)

Also not every school accommodates for like kids dietary restrictions so not every kid is able to eat school lunch

This is such an American problem. For real, America needs to get it together

My state has free lunch and it shows. One of our school lunches can be hotdog pizza. Which is unseasoned tomato sauce and some sort of yucky plastic cheese slapped on a cheap hotdog bun. It tastes like dogfood, if youre curious.

My school does free lunch, but u can buy “extras” like cookies and stuff like that that cost extra money

Some schools don't even do lunch. For example mine just had a big 60 min break where we could go to nearby stores to buy food

Bruh, in my school they didn't give you an alternative if you couldn't pay, they just told you tough luck and to come back when you have money. Peanut butter sandwich? "OOH, fAncy pAnts Rich McGee over here--!" 😂

school lunch used to be okay where i'm from, but now it's absolutely disgusting. i have always qualified for free/reduced lunch (it's changed a couple times in my life), and that was okay because there were decent meals that i could eat with my dietary restrictions. now, school lunch is free, but most days i can't eat it because it'll make me sick, and the school doesn't take crohn's disease or lactose intolerance seriously. my mom used to make me lunch in middle school, but we don't have the time or money to do so anymore. this shit sucks.

God. I was living such a happy healthy life with my supressed memories of all those times they took my food to give me a cheese sandwich (they didn't usually serve peanut butter at my schools)