Public Schools around UTAustin that provide natural/healthy food to kids

[Idlewile]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

How many hostels even provide lunch, let alone an organic one?

I think the African dust is getting to people.

Ha! But what about private hostels then??

Good catch.

[HappyTexan]

If only parents cared as much about curriculum changes as they do food in school.....

[A-Tex]

Originally Posted by FueledByBlueBell

Why are these answers so hostel? This is a question many, many parents have these days. God forbid parents care about what their kids eat.

My little guy goes to private and we use Patricia's Lunchbox, but this clearly isn't a solution for everyone either.

Because the OP is talking a public school so it's our tax dollars they want to use to underwrite their kid's fancypants food. You want organic special snowflake food? Pack your kid's lunch and keep my wallet out of it.

[ITO]

I had to laugh at the title of the thread....sorry.

Having suffered though my entire public school education here, I can promise you that packing your kids lunch is what you want to do. School lunches here are not something I have fond memories of, nor will I let me kids eat.

[hound 109]

Originally Posted by A-Tex

Because the OP is talking a public school so it's our tax dollars they want to use to underwrite their kid's fancypants food. You want organic special snowflake food? Pack your kid's lunch and keep my wallet out of it.

This pretty much nails it.

& the opinion is not hostile. Telling someone that you're not going to pay for a bunch of stuff that they WANT (as opposed to need) isn't a hostile opinion....it's pretty logical. (I tell it to my kid all the time).

[capcat]

Originally Posted by centralaustinite

...in economically diverse public schools...a packed lunch (...and the implication of a stay-at-home mom to pack it) are a class marker...

Well, it shouldn't be. Some of the healthiest packed lunches I've seen have been prepared by employed moms. Many include items left over from the home-cooked dinner the night before.

But, I will say that the most consistently healthy lunches I've seen packed were by a stay at home dad. It was like a suitcase full of healthy food, every day.

[G Grasshopper]

I packed lunch for my son up until high school, and I was a working mom. This wasn't in Texas. I was very careful about food groups, organic if I could, but also very careful that all containers were reusable - no trash from his lunch, right down to the cloth napkin and the glass of milk with a top, and a reusable ice pack. Every now and then I would ask him what he thought of the lunches I packed. He always said that they were different than everyone else, but he never considered it bad. He liked his lunches. Sometimes I even packed extra food for the kids who got "bad" lunches packed (one of his friends routinely had a lunchbox full of candy, another used to have just white bread packed - I'm not kidding, just a bagguette of french bread.) From all the reports he gave, I knew he was the odd man out for getting healthy food, but as I said, he always liked it. As an adult, he still only eats healthy food. I could do this even though I was working because I had the lunch box partially ready by the time I went to bed, and only made the sandwich in the morning.

[capcat]

I did too, G Grasshopper. Also, dinner was usually prepped as much as it could be the night before or in the morning. You get used to that kind of strategic thinking. Taking care with food choices shouldn't imply stay at home mom.

[scm53]

Originally Posted by biscuitmom

Bento boxes are very popular in many of the more affluent school districts. I know one in the SA area in which some of the moms have formed a co-op of sorts and take turns providing bento lunches for their group's children.

Wasn't like that in the Seventies.

I have zero doubt this happens here in Austin today:

9. The night before the first day of school prepare the bento boxes. Fill containers with organic, local strawberries intricately cut into the shapes of sea creatures. Include homemade, nut free granola made with certified gluten-free oats. Make a sandwich on vegan hemp bread out of tahini, kale and jicama. Form it into the shape of your child’s favorite Disney character. Make flowers out of non-dairy cheese slices, olives and seaweed. Photograph the finished Bento Box and post it to Instagram.

[capcat]

Originally Posted by scm53

Wasn't like that in the Seventies.

I have zero doubt this happens here in Austin today:

Lol. Great link. (also the link within that one about 70's summers). Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to give you another rep just yet.