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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion Archive: Archive November 2005: School Lunches
Do your kids eat the school lunches or do they take their own?
My dks go to a small Catholic school, so they have really good lunches. One of the members of the church owns a restaurant and brings lunch in daily. They always have a good meal with fresh cut up fruit and veggies. My ds buys usually 4 days out of 5. Every once in awhile they will have something he doesn't like.
I forgot to add, when they went to the public school, my ds only bought lunch like once or twice a week. I would help out at lunch, and I agree with your dd, some of the food looked really yucky.
Our school doesn't offer lunches, so our kids have to take their own.
Ours eat school lunches. They haven't really ever said anything bad about them. They eat very well at our school...their menus usually end up sounding better than what I had for lunch.
My kids bring bag lunches daily. They both have severe nut allergies and the school is unable to guarantee that their hot lunches will be safe for them.
Dd does both. If she likes what they are having, she buys. If not, she packs. I also agree that some of it looks pretty bad!!
When my dks bring home the new month's menu, we sit down and star which meals they will eat at school. Then I know, the night before, who to make bag lunches for. I would guess that they eat school lunches 2-3 times each week. Fridays are pizza day so that's a given school lunch day!
My daughter eats everything the school has. She is in fourth grade and the only time she ever packs her lunch is for a field trip!
My dd brings lunch to school. She says the school lunches are gross and smell gross. She did buy once last year when she was in kindergarten. It was supposed to be hotdog and french fries day but they changed it to pancakes.....with fries!! eeew. She hasn't wanted to buy since.
The school lunches they serve at the public school my son used to attend were tasty but not healthy. Their menus went something like this: fish sticks (or chicken nuggets or something else fried), corn, white dinner roll, pudding and chocolate milk. Just to make things a little more unhealthy, they were not allowed to run on the playground (because it is unsafe)! I could go on and on but I'll just say that he brought his lunch and as a treat he could buy from the cafeteria once in while.
I always pack. I have seen the school lunches and I don't want him eating them everyday. One day on our menu there was Cheese sticks as a main dish...cheese sticks???
My kids took hot lunch a lot, in grade school. As they have gotten older, they take it less and less and I pretty much make lunches every morning now.
I always encouraged the kids not to eat school lunches and now they absolutely will not. I think the food, for the most part is disgusting. The other day the lunch choices (I take the all day kindergarten kids to lunch) were trix yogurt and a big pretzel or nacho chips w/cheese sauce. Yuck! And if the kids don't like either of those choices they are offered a variety of sugary cereals.
Colette, that's disgusting! I think our schools have slightly better lunches. At the elementary and middle school level they serve a hot lunch every day which includes a vegie. I'm sure the food isn't that great, but it sounds like a better menu, for sure. In high school, they have more options, including pizza, salad bar, the normal hot lunch, and some other stuff.
Just a little tidbit...typically, all the foods that sound "fried" are actually baked. Could you imagine frying that much food? Even our french fries, chicken fries, chicken nuggets, etc. are baked.
Randy very rarely eats school lunches. I pack his for several reasons. Number one--I've seen those lunches, and even eaten one or two with the kids and they're just nasty! lol I know they try, but there's not a lot you can do when you're feeding close to 800 kids and cooking in mass quantities. Second, they're expensive for what the kids actually eat. It would cost $1.60 a day for Randy to eat that lunch, and another $1 if he wants seconds of the main course. Third, I don't think they're very healthy. Like someone else said, cheese sticks for lunch? One of our local tv stations has kids from a local school give their menu each day. Today's was a class of second graders from a school district on the south side of the Springs. Their menu? Sloppy joes, mac-n-cheese and fruit cups. If that was what Randy was offered, he'd probably eat a little mac-n-cheese and drink 1/2 his milk. I'm not paying $1.60 for that.
I work at a school during the lunch hour. Just because they get fruits and veggies in their lunch doesn't mean they eat it. We throw an awful lot of food away.
That's what me and my mom talk about a lot, Dawn. The kids through so much away. And the stuff they bring in their lunches, even if they don't open it, they'll just pitch it, too. Parents have no idea just how little they eat, whether it is the hot lunch, or their packed lunch. They would rather socialize at lunch than eat. It's almost the only time they get to at most places anymore. Especially as they are taking away recess more and more.
I have noticed that they like to throw away perfectly good unopened containers, too. Sometimes I will tell a kid that they can put that back in their lunchbox and eat it afterschool. (like a fruit bowl or applesauce)
He eats more if he gets lunch and breakfast at school. It's easier than rushing him through breakfast at home and he doesn't have to remember to bring home his lunch box.
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