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You know, I always packed my kids lunches even throughout high school. The food at school was just junk. Why would I want them to eat that plus pay extra for it
Eh - local variations. The a la carte options at my daughter's high school was great. She generally stuck to that or the salad bar. Back when she was in middle school, the food was atrocious. Always packed her lunch there but of course, she's the kid that doesn't just want a sandwich. Sushi was her usual go to packed lunch.
[quote=southbel;36396117]Eh - local variations. The a la carte options at my daughter's high school was great. She generally stuck to that or the salad bar. Back when she was in middle school, the food was atrocious. Always packed her lunch there but of course, she's the kid that doesn't just want a sandwich. Sushi was her usual go to packed lunch.[/QUOTE]
Sushi Memories of the movie Breakfast Club just came back lol
School children in Elyria, Ohio are mourning the demise of a 40-year tradition – the loss of their beloved pink cookie. The fabled cookie, long served in local school cafeterias, was done in by a pound of butter, six cups of powdered sugar and the Obama administration’s food police.
“It no longer meets the national school lunch program guidelines for snacks,” said Amy Higgins, the spokesperson for Elyria City Schools. “It has too many calories.”
Eh - local variations. The a la carte options at my daughter's high school was great. She generally stuck to that or the salad bar. Back when she was in middle school, the food was atrocious. Always packed her lunch there but of course, she's the kid that doesn't just want a sandwich. Sushi was her usual go to packed lunch.
As were ours. We now have "alternate" menu items in place of the a la carte. They are recognized as part of "build a school lunch". Instead of preparing vegetable beef soup, bacon/potato soup, wedding soup, homemade chili, stuffed peppers, scalloped potatoes, etc., I am now spending my mornings panning breaded chicken patties, chicken nuggets, and pizza. Chicken sandwiches, nuggets, and pizza are government approved with the addition of salad and fruit. Pre-prepared processed crap. Yet the government says our homemade stuff didn't meet the criteria.
Sounds good to me. Why do schools have to provide lunch anyway. Why isn't it the parents responsibility to provide a meal for their child at school.
Sad to say, there are many kids who obviously get nothing to eat at home. Last winter, we had many days when school was on two-hour delay because of snow and/or subzero cold. It didn't effect our cafeteria schedule, we cooks had to be in at 6:30 a.m. regardless. We still put out the breakfast, and there were several students who came early before school to eat. I don't know the details of their home situations, or why their parents aren't feeding them, but it doesn't make sense with the ever-growing availability of food stamps. These seem to be the same kids - who incidentally also receive free/reduced lunches. And yes, there IS STILL a stigma about kids who receive free/reduced lunches, even though the number seems to be growing every year.
If we need to pay for health care for the people that get sick as a result they are not taking personality responsibility for their health decisions.
If you want to be a fat ass, it is your responsibility to pay for that decision. If you are not willing to do so then the tax payer gets a say.
I love how we drug test for welfare recipients because if we pay we get a say, but eating terrible food is a personal choice.
Or we could I don't know, remove taxpayers from the healthcare equation and let everyone bear their own costs.
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Memories of the movie Breakfast Club just came back lol
