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I thought this was as not to promote "junk food" yet I have students daily that are allowed to buy ice cream, cookies, and chips for lunch FROM The elementary cafeteria! It blows my mind (we didnt have that where I came from) and then the kids dont eat their free hot lunch paid for w/ tax dollars, but they eat three packaged snacks/day! Today's breakfast was pizza or a cinnamon bun! The kids selling are not the ones eating most of the junk they sell. If we want to worry about kids & junk food, don't have it available for them to purchase in mass quantities daily.
Yes it's pretty appalling what they sell in school cafeterias here. The elementary school I went to in New Jersey had no lunch room so you got to eat whatever the lunch lady cooked up and brought on her cart. I don't even think lunch ladies cook anymore
Yes it's pretty appalling what they sell in school cafeterias here. The elementary school I went to in New Jersey had no lunch room so you got to eat whatever the lunch lady cooked up and brought on her cart. I don't even think lunch ladies cook anymore
I find it disgusting as well. It's not like they offer a snack or two. It's so many of them. Ugh.
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Move to Chapel Hill. No ice cream in the cafeteria and very few snacks there either. No food in the classrooms for parties or special events, which means no Christmas parties, Valentine's parties, birthday cupcakes - NOTHING! (Well, they can have parties, but no food. What's a party without food???). Lastly, no "bad food" can be brought in for snack. Which means, in addition to no cookies, candy, no banana muffins with chocolate chips in them or chocolate covered raisins or granola bars with chocolate chips are allowed either.
While I appreciate their stand on kids eating healthy, I do think they have taken it a bit too far. I am quite happy with my child eating a healthy, homemade banana muffin that has a few chocolate chips in it for a snack. And I think kids should be allowed to bring in treats for Valentine's Day. And while having birthday parties for each kid gets to be too much, they should do one once per month for all the kids with birthdays that month and have an approved list of snacks you can bring in or buy from the cafeteria. Not having junk food in the cafeteria, however, I approve of.
Right, because selling lettuce, celery and tomatoes door to door or at football games will make a lot more money. This advisory council can let actual adults decide for ourselves what we want to buy to support the schools. What a bunch of control freaks.
Playing devil's advocate for ten seconds ... I think one concern is that kids buy from each other to get each other's quota up. I remember my son buying from a couple of friends, and vice-versa.
I didn't particularly stress about it since it was once a year, and my son usually had enough self-control not to eat three candy bars at once! But I guess that kids just five or six years later are candy-guzzling maniacs? (Being sarcastic here, BTW. This is not a vilification of today's kids.)
A cinnamon bun for breakfast? Please ... someone tell me this is a joke. Y'know, as poor as we were back when my husband was unemployed, I managed to somehow pack a yogurt or peanut butter sandwich and some applesauce or carrots for my kids. Granted, the yogurt was a fruity one, and that had sugar, and applesauce wasn't the best fruit choice, but even my poor choices sound great next to a cinnamon bun! Pizza has .... some ... nutritional value. (That's pushing it, I know, but at least the cheese has some calcium.) But a cinnamon bun?
Sorry. That blew my mind. Perhaps if this advisory council was oh-so-concerned, it should look into the daily school menus themselves, as others here have suggested? An occasional fundraising sweet treat will not turn the kid into a sugar-fueled zombie, but combined with poor nutritional programs in some schools? Eek.
But this is part of a much broader problem, starting from when the child is very young and before he or she attends school. Back when the child stayed home most of the day.
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