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My daughter is entering school next year and we plan on sending lunch with her. Hopefully this will minimize the scary lunches as well as make me bring a healthy lunch to work as well. But good tips on stopping by to eat lunch once in awhile.
posted by : veronica on 5/9/2008 at 10:05 AM Flag For Abuse
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my child is in kindergarten and not eating lunch at school yet, but had the awful experience of eating a school
packed lunch on a field trip. mystery meat & cheese sandwich, cookie, juice & apple... all she ate was the apple
and drank water from the drinking fountain... i was chaperoning all i i could stomach was the apple as well.
there is no way that i just spent the last 5 years developing good eating habits for my daughter and then a place of learning is going to throw that all away... makes me furious! i'm a angry mom too! it's hard enough to contend
with drive thrus on every corner, but then have to be at odds with the school system on feeding our kids real
food. uggghh...
posted by : hody on 5/9/2008 at 1:44 PM Flag For Abuse
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My kids always pack their lunch. There are only a few things on the lunch menu that they even like and they are pretty good eaters. I went to my daughter's middle school for lunch. What bothered me was that the kids with trays from the cafeteria hardly ate any of their food, so they probably got stuff from the vending machines later. It's just such a waste of money and food, no matter how awful it was. I really think it is better to get into the habit of packing lunch anyway, since you are better off packing lunch as an adult rather than eating out.
Amy
Mom to 3
www.sofiabean.com
posted by : AmyE on 5/9/2008 at 3:46 PM Flag For Abuse
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My kids are on the Free Lunch (and Breakfast) program. The first week of school, they came home so hungry and misbehaving that I was LIVID (the very first day of eating school lunch, they came home and made a beeline for the kitchen, grabbing at the first food they saw, and my 10 year old brandished a butcher knife at my 14 year old when the older tried to grab the food from the younger's hands). I wrote the cafeteria lady and asked for Nutritional Information for the meals being served-- you know, the information that by law, McDonalds must provide upon request? The school cafeteria lady (what do they call that job? Nutritionist doesn't seem to cut it) REFUSED to give me the data, saying she didn't have it available to give to parents. That made me angry too.
We are new at the school. I was planning to get a year under my belt and then start my crusade to feed the kids REAL food.
Our diet at home includes a lot of raw fruits and veggies, and almost no meat. I feed my family of 9 on less than $450 a month. For that price we usually get about 350 lbs of fresh fruits and veggies, and lots of beans and cornbread, rice, and biscuits and gravy. My kids are all normal size. They all eat twice as much food as any other kids I know, so they really do feel starved at school. And my kids are VERY bothered by all the food they see wasted at school-- but it's against the rules for them to eat someone else's leftovers! My kids must go the rest of the day hungry when they see someone else throw away perfectly good food. It's a crime, IMO.
A typical lunch will have a fruit serving, but my 14 yo tells me that "pineapple" on the menu is in fact 5 or 6 pineapple bites. Canned pineapple. I, like you, have spent too many years teaching my kids about good nutrition. And I've always told them canned pineapple was about as nutritious as candy... but it passes for a fruit at school. Yesterday they got hot dogs, chips and Oreos.... that is NOT food.
posted by : mom of 7 on 5/9/2008 at 4:34 PM Flag For Abuse
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mom of 7 I can totally relate.
This is yet another reason why I didn't bother with daycare and wound up quitting work, because you know where these horrible food habits start? The crap they serve sometimes at a 'good' daycare. My toddler is only 2, but he's pretty picky about food, and he'll readily turn his face away at anything that is overly processed. It's not just because I feed him unprocessed food, because he's been like that from the time he started eating food. So mac and cheese is a no-go, but lima beans and rice (I discovered that one by accident) he'll gobble up.
There's a daycare that opened up in the same building as my former employer and they have their meal plan on their website. I looked through it and showed it to my husband and we agreed -- if we went with that place, our child would have STARVED. because he's not the type of kid who will eat anything if he's hungry. He will just sit there and suffer and not touch a THING.
posted by : theboysmom on 5/12/2008 at 2:24 PM Flag For Abuse
