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Sorry, schools don't have to feed them at all. So they need to eat what is served to them. If they don't it....oh well. Did your parents only provide you with foods you liked to eat. My parents did not. We ate what was served. If we didn't like it we were out of luck.
They eat what is served to them. It's just not enough. Studies have shown that kids perform better in school when they are not hungry. What is the point of a school lunch if the kids still have to bring another lunch from home?
The Elementary schools (K-5th) don't get quite the same choices. They get to choose from either 4 or 5 rotating entrees. For instance, tomorrow the Elementary menu is:
Chicken Parmesan with Spaghetti
BBQ Chicken Sandwich
Cobb Salad with Ranch Dressing and Whole Wheat Dinner Roll
Bean and Cheese Burrito
I hate them, LOL! That's still a pretty good selection.
forget about trying to serve nothing but healthy lunches and go back to active recess and even a few minutes a day for P. E. with it being required in middle and high school. I have said this before: we volunteer at a local elementary school and the amount of "healthy" food that is wasted is so sad. Many of these kids do not eat all that healthy at home and are not about to eat healthy foods at school, not to mention the food is downright tasteless.
When we were in school, yes, back in the 1950s, we did not have soda available, only milk and we didn't have a lot of junk food, but what we did have was a lot tastier than what our kids are eating today.
When we were in school, yes, back in the 1950s, we did not have soda available, only milk and we didn't have a lot of junk food, but what we did have was a lot tastier than what our kids are eating today.
When I was in high school in the late 1990s, my school district had contracts with Chick-fil-a, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. We also had soda vending machines in the halls.
I was a big eater (year-round competitive swimmer). For lunch at school I'd have something like two deep-fried Chick-fil-A sandwiches, 2 servings of deep-fried french fries, a milk, and one packet of Hostess Dunkin Sticks. Then in the afternoon I'd buy a snack - another packet of Hostess Dunkin Sticks and a coke.
They eat what is served to them. It's just not enough. Studies have shown that kids perform better in school when they are not hungry. What is the point of a school lunch if the kids still have to bring another lunch from home?
Calories for school lunches:
650 grades K-5
700 grades 6-8
850 grades 9-12
By comparison:
Mc Donald's:
Big Mac: 530
Quarter-pounder w/chees: 520
Double quarter-pounder w/chees: 740
Hamburger: 240
Cheeseburger: 290
Double Cheeseburger: 430
Add a glass of skim milk (90 cal) and a piece of fruit (50) and you have meals that well fit into the school lunch guidelines, except for the double quarter-pounder w/cheese. This is to give an idea of how much food we're really talking about.
BTW, what is your opinion regarding food stamps, should we increase them so that kids don't go hungry?
Increasing Food Stamps to feed more hungry children! I sure am all for that.
I couldn't believe that Congress voted to decrease the allocation for Food Stamps in the Agriculture Appropriation....that was a perfect example of how the Republican Congress shut the door on hungry children, veterans and elderly people and justified it by their erroneous stereotypes of lazy men who refuse to work buying crab legs with food stamps. Food Stamps primarily go to buy food for children of working poor families. There are more cans of raviolio's and chicken noodle soup and peanut butter....than crab legs or steaks. That is one of the urban myths used to justify sending kids to bed without supper.
Increasing Food Stamps to feed more hungry children! I sure am all for that. I couldn't believe that Congress voted to decrease the allocation for Food Stamps in the Agriculture Appropriation....that was a perfect example of how the Republican Congress shut the door on hungry children, veterans and elderly people and justified it by their erroneous stereotypes of lazy men who refuse to work buying crab legs with food stamps. Food Stamps primarily go to buy food for children of working poor families.
Yet those same republicans are complaining about small portion sizes in school lunches. Go figure!
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