School menu ridiculousness

I send my kids with packed lunches...the school has a policy to check lunch boxes for chocolates/ sweets and if found confiscates them.

But the school lunch they offer has a sweet dessert and they also offer pizza, chips plus other rubbish.

Utter hypocrites

Our school district has done a stellar job improving nutrition over the past ten years. It's been a slow transformation but I'm pleased with the amount of fruits and veggies and they are offering now. All the bread items including the buns for chicken burgers are made from scratch in the schools main kitchen.

It's not perfect and it's not ideal but changes have been made!

I especially appreciate the changes that have been made, I can't afford to make lunches for my kids and this is a HUGE help for our family.

I send my daughter to school to learn, not to eat. I provide well balanced meals for her breakfast and dinner. If she doesn't like the school meal for the day, she packs a lunch.

I would like to know how many of you complaining would vote for a tax increase to provide better nutrition at school?

ETA: This is a first world problem. Can we really complain at all that our children have schools and regular meals?

I for one would be against it. I don't have kids, don't want kids, and sure as heck don't want to have to pay to support someone elses kids. The government gets enough of my money as it is.

I send my daughter to school to learn, not to eat. I provide well balanced meals for her breakfast and dinner. If she doesn't like the school meal for the day, she packs a lunch.

I would like to know how many of you complaining would vote for a tax increase to provide better nutrition at school?

I would totally vote for tax increase for almost anything school related, especially nutrition. It's so important, and for a lot of children out there it's the only semi healthy meal they'll get all day. And sadly there are a lot of kids out there for whom it will be the only meal they get that day.

I would vote too.

I also want to point out that I do not have children and it's becoming more and more of a big possibility that I never will. That being said I do still believe that it's part of my responsibility to pay taxes toward children educational and hunger needs because someday I will be old and they will be charge.

Sadly, an awful lot of people do not feel the same way you do.

Yeah I know, it's a pity.

I find it a pitty when women pop out 4 or 5 babies knowing that they can't afford to take care of them. Everybody has an opinion.

Calm down naysayers. I didn’t say anything about punishing children or forcing children to go hungry. I said that I believe parents, not schools, are the ones responsible for feeding their children.

Insinuating that someone is somehow living in privilege because they actually feed their kids is what is utterly ridiculous; and a smack in the face to a lot of poor parents who struggle to make ends meet and still live up to their parental responsibilities. Millions of people living in poverty also take the responsibility to feed their kids every meal, every day. To imply that those families are somehow advantaged because they don’t agree with or want a particular social democracy program shows ignorance. As does the assumption that all the poor hungry kids are actually attending public schools anyway.

Having a differing opinion of social responsibility doesn’t make one “privileged” or “ridiculous.” It simply means that people see social responsibility differently. Some people think it is the schools/taxpayers’ responsibility to feed kids and some people think it is the parents’ responsibility to feed kids.

Meh. Whatever. People have differing opinions.

I agree that it's the parents responsibility but I also think that creating low cost and depending on the situation free, for vasectomies, partial hysterectomies, and abortions will also help the problem of people having children they either don't want, can't take care of and what not. If it wasn't too much to ask we could also ask that people just use their brains and use multiple forms of contraceptives or abstinence.

I really want a family but I also really want to only adopt because I don't see the point in bringing children into a world when there are already children in need of families. Right now I cannot afford to adopt on my own which is why I feel like I may never get there. I am pro-choice but do not believe in abortion for myself but I also work at a clinic and have seen women who are on their 9 or 10th pregnancy and almost each of them unwanted but they cannot afford their tubes tied or an abortion (though I don't know an abortion would be an option to them depending on what they believe in) and of course the govt isn't going to pay for it.

I don't think you should be harpooned for what you believe because to each his/her own but I think that in many cases it is not possible to empathize or concur with different believe if you have not walked in those shoes. While I do not agree with your opinion, I think my opinion above may be considered radical.

When it comes to the bones of my beliefs, I believe that unless people in general take responsibility for their actions whether there is an attempt to force them or not, the situation will not change if there isn't people from all ends working together to change it. (Responsibility, not meaning just the parents)

Sorry if I went off topic...This comment did start off at a snarky reply but as I wrote I realized how inappropriate that would have been but felt the need to not only say it but attempt to explain it as well.

The problem is.. my son doesn't want to be "that kid" who never gets to buy lunch at school and I'm not the parent that wants my son to eat the food offered. They do have a salad bar.. i'm positive my 14 yo son will line up for that every single day.. (please note the dripping sarcasm in that statement) . So what do you do. Constant pleading from your child to be able to buy lunch (which they will do with their on money if necessary) and wanting them to eat healthy. I'm glad we're not in his old school district. They had a taco bell in the cafeteria.. healthy I'm sure... right..

I have a friend that teaches Pre-K and one day one of the little boys looked really sad, so she said, "You should be happy! It's Friday, you get to stay home with no school for 2 whole days!" To that he replied, "I don't like the weekends. Those are hungry days."
Just think about it. The school feeds him breakfast and lunch for free Monday through Friday. Whose responsibility is it then to make sure they eat healthy?

It's no wonder we're raising generations of obese children, considering what they're getting in public school. My little one will be in a school-run daycare next week, and she's eating solid foods now. One of the options is to let her get her breakfast and lunch free from the cafeteria, but after looking at the menu options, we'll spend our own money and send her real food.

Keep in mind this menu is produced by arguably the "best" cafeteria in our region, and most of the other schools around here COPY this menu for their students.

Breakfast daily options: Cinnamon roll/cheese stick, assorted Pop Tarts, Graham Snackers or blueberry or banana nut muffins. Daily hot options are a sausage roll, breakfast pizza, French toast link with syrup, pancake on a stick with syrup and a waffle with syrup and a sausage patty.

Lunch options...
Chili dog or cheesy stix (cheese bread) with marinara; chicken nuggets or PBJ; pepperoni pizza or a chalupa; corn dog or "fish strips" (WTF is that anyway); nachos or stuffed dippers with sauce; cheese pizza or meatball sub; and my PERSONAL favorite "main dish" options: mac and cheese with a roll or a corn dog.

Oh, and the lunch options are served with assorted milks, fresh fruits, veggies AND desserts.

If this is what our government says is healthy and acceptable for kids to eat, we're doomed.

Wow, nothing on the menus have changed since I was going to school. Fish strips are pretty much fish sticks. Who even knows if it's fish. I do have very fond memories of that breakfast pizza though.

We always joke that at our nearby schools, the only cooking tools the lunch ladies need are a box cutter and a can opener.

Oh wow, this brings back memories. In my high school they gave us pizza with french fries.