Budget-minded Kate Gosselin has no tolerance for the finicky eating habits of her eight kids. A source close to the single reality TV mom, 35, tells UsMagazine.com that Kate gets incensed when her children don't finish their packed lunches at school.
Hmm … of all the things to get mad about, the fact your kids don’t eat their entire lunches? I mean, two of your kids got kicked out of school, and this is what you’re stressing about?
You say it’s because you're pinching pennies because you’re broke (which does not compute because your asymmetrical hairdo STILL has a show on TLC and you have books out there) but in reality, how much does two pieces of bread and a slather of peanut butter cost? I mean, shoot, if you worked really hard (hahaha!) you could get Wonder bread to sponsor your ass with a sticker, and then you’d never have to pay for bread.
Instead of throwing away the uneaten grub, "she repacks it for them in the next's day lunch," the source explains, adding that it's school policy to send any untouched food home with students each day.
Apparently that school is trying to save money on garbage cans and custodial staff because never have I been in a school that made it a point to send uneaten food home with the kids. Wow, that’s like a health hazard waiting to happen. You ever accidentally leave your lunch box on the shelf at the end of the day? I know I did. So, they have this idiotic policy in place to raise the possibility for rotting food and rodents in the classrooms. Woohoo, and to think you pay for your kids to go to this school. Plus, if a kid eats half an apple, they really want them to take the half-eaten brown apple home? That’s retarded. What about the kids who bought their lunches at school? Do they have to take any uneaten food home?
Now, honestly, Gosselin children, there’s got to be a way for you to dispose of those uneaten, mushy, nasty sandwiches before your mom gets ahold of your lunch boxes again. Go to the bathroom and flush it down the toilet, feed the birds … shoot, tell your mom you want to go to the local homeless shelter on your way home from school as a community service project – I’m sure they’d love the sandwiches.
And those PB and Js can get a little gross, the source adds. "The kids are stubborn, so sometimes the little kids have the same half-eaten sandwich in their lunch all week."
Okay, really, first of all, PB&Js from the same day can get gross, especially if Kate’s not the intelligent-type (and I’m guessing she’s not) to put peanut butter on both sides (oh, no, that might cost more money!) to save the bread from getting soggy. So, yeah, just getting a PB&J is bad news enough for these kids, but to have the same one stare them in the face all week? That’s wrong.
Plus, and I’m just guessing here, but if she puts the same uneaten half-sandwich in their lunches, she’s not putting a new one in there. Is this her way to combat childhood obesity, by lessening the food portions?
Honestly, I think she’s just scarring her children. Because what happens is Mom has a weird habit and her kids will deliberately avoid that habit when they are older to prove a point. So, hey, in the long-run, Kate’s making sure her grandkids have a better life.
Frugal mom sidenote: My mom washed plasticware and reuses aluminum foil and plastic food storage bags. I don’t reuse aluminum foil, plastic storage bags, or plasticware. Just because, well, quite frankly, I just don’t. I have my frugal moments as well as anyone (read: cheap), but those are ones that I deliberately don’t do. Thanks, Mom! (Side note, at Christmas, we forced her to throw away two pieces of aluminum foil. It was painful, but I am proud to say she did it. That’s not to say she didn’t go tearing through the trash after we were gone to recover it, because I’m sure she did, but …) I love you, Mom!
Sometimes the 9-year-old twins and 6-year-old sextuplets get teased for the musty sandwiches. "Some of the little ones cry, and some get angry and fight," the source adds.
If there’s one thing we all know, it’s that kids are vicious. Why would you set your kids up for that? As if you haven’t screwed them up enough just by being you and exploiting them, you have to add this to the mix?
Kate's ex-husband Jon, 33, isn't a fan of Kate's frugal fits. A pal overheard the single dad quip to his kids: "If you lived with me, you wouldn’t have to eat rotten food for lunch every day."
Read: “If you lived with me, you wouldn’t have to eat rotten food for lunch every day, because you’d be lucky if I remembered to feed you.”
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