Let’s give it up for the mom who fakes homemade lunches for her kid’s daycare
A round of applause for this mom, who is going viral for “faking” homemade lunches for her kid’s daycare. Because daycares and preschools sometimes have very stringent, very inconvenient rules for what kids can eat on-site, you’ve got to get creative sometimes. Enter: this lunch hack.
Because you’ve simply gotta give credit where it’s due, please give it up for this mom’s “homemade” lunch hack that you’ll probably want to steal for yourself if your kiddo’s school is anything like hers. The now-viral TikTok meal hack has been seen by millions, and it’s easy to see why.
“When daycare makes you send a lunch and…you aren’t allowed any packaged foods and they request warm, homemade meals over winter,” she says in the video.
The very brief-but-genius video shows her scraping a delightful-looking pasta dish that clearly came from a frozen, prepackaged meal. She also is seen dumping some Bluey cookies from their bag into a mini container.
The mom, who goes by @mammathings on TikTok, made it clear that her child’s daycare center had requests parents send in a warm homemade meal, and aren’t allowed to substitute those for packaged foods.
LOL. Sure, Jan.
“I make ‘mom content’ on TikTok and focus on sharing easy recipes and ideas for children, but sometimes a raw moment like this slips in,” Caitlin, the mom in the video, tells Newsweek. “We are not allowed packaged foods in the day care lunches that we send, so I was showing a way to fake this because it has been a long week!”
My toddler’s daycare has threatened to “throw away” any child’s lunch that contains candy or cookies or junk food of any kind. Which isn’t a pain in the butt at all, because we all know toddlers are adventurous eaters who gladly eat whatever is put in front of them! Anyway, I get it—sometimes you just run out of ideas, time, and/or energy. So you do what you gotta do.
“Sometimes day care requests, although well-intended, can place additional mental loads or pressures on moms so we need to find a way to work around that from time to time,” Caitlin says.
AMEN.
