School lunches

Stifler's - posted on 02/17/2012

No way. Everyones idea of healthy could be different.

September - posted on 02/16/2012

Jennifer your child's school does not allow children to bring salads for lunch? Now that's just odd! The lunch items that you mention sounds incredibility unhealthy. A salad would be much healthier.

September - posted on 02/16/2012

I do think that eating healthy foods is important; however I don't think it's the school's place to get involved. I'd be ok with someone from the school sending home healthy food suggestions or ideas for healthy lunches but being forced into packing what they want me to pack, I would not be ok with that.

Amy - posted on 02/16/2012

My son also has food issues so this could potentially be a huge problem for us next year if they decide to police him! In all honesty they'll need to have someone police that he's actually eating what is packed because meal time at home consists of "take a bite", over and over and over again! I would say 50% of the time he comes home with his snack uneaten now and when you ask him he says he didn't have time to eat.



My son will eat ham but not on a sandwich, I'm not really sure how I would get the grains in his lunch. He's not a big meat eater, and typically I don't offer fruit at a meal because he would eat that and then be done. My son likes treats but only is offered them at home, and only gets carbs like pasta until he's eaten most of his meat and veggies. He always has a healthy snack packed for school that's a fruit or veggie because that's what was required in preschool so we just carried that over to kindergarten and we have the best luck with those!



If the school wants to take away my sons lunch and offer something else they're going to have to force him to eat it! There are nights at home where we have to battle with him, if he were at a healthy weight it wouldn't be an issue but at 6 he's only 37 lbs I'm concerned although his doctor isn't because he keeps growing height wise.

Jennifer - posted on 02/16/2012

We haven't had the lunch box police-yet. The kids are not allowed to bring pop, and no one is suppose to bring in 'fast-food'. Not even subway, or salads. It really get's to me, cause I've seen them serve hot dogs wrapped in white bread, little smokies, and what they call 'garfield sandwiches' those sandwiches are staff made bread, rolled out and have a few pepperonis and and a sprinlke of cheese on them. If a kid happens to get an end peice, they may have half a pepperoni and a teaspoon of cheese on a burnt peice of crust that is too hard to chew!! Our middle school serves such little portions that a 2 year old would starve! Then they wonder why every kid hits the vending machine for cheetos!!



The kids are watched like hawks, never allowed to run, playing and climbing is frowned upon. The swings have monitors, and if the kids pump their legs to go higher, they are told to stop. At the middle school they are not suppose to do anything but stand and quietly talk, and that is their recess! I can't help but think, if they let them move, they could let them eat!!

Corinne - posted on 02/16/2012

Oh, we have the lunch box police here too, I hate it. It bugs the hell outta my because I've been pulled up for putting a choc chip cereal bar in there and other parents are getting away with putting chocolate bars in. Never had them force a school dinner on us though.

One of the other Mums at our school is up in arms cause they allowed her already overweight son to have chicken nuggets and chips 5 days on the trot last term, and they have the nerve to pull a perfectly healthy packed lunch apart. GRRRrrrrrr ;)