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As a former lunch room monitor I can say that there is a great deal of food tossed out at the end of the lunch period. You don't want to be serving asparagus or creamed spinach to young kids. Lot's of them ate those little bagged carrots with ranch dressing to dip them in however. This can't be "adult" healthy food, and you don't need all kinds of healthy food at every meal, but I think the lunchs are pretty good right now at our schools. They outsource sometimes and bring in things from local places like pizza and hamburgers. Nothing wrong with that IMO but a bagged lunch with a turkey sand. and a jello cup (or something similar) was always appreciated by my kids.
I guess different school districts do things their own way and I do remember when our community made the "healthy" push many years back.
Good old PB&J sandwich and a bag of chips and they're usually happy. Gotta have that chocolate milk though.
I put the nix on PB&J when I was a kid because by lunch the bread was soggy. After that mom gave me bologna and cheese on Roman Meal bread...everyday. LOL
So not only was $.10 increase per lunch mandated but also enrollment widened to include more kids. "Stealth revenue" folks.
It was the Child Nutrition Bill of 2010
Easy money.
I found it when reading an article about the school districts implementing this and the notice went out about increased lunch costs (which is still pretty cheap even with the increase).
Hays ISD bumps cost of school lunch | KXAN.com
"District spokesman Tim Savoy said the district is implementing the 10 cent increase to comply with the federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The Act's pricing formula requires the district to raise its lunch prices."
No wonder the trend towards not allowing kids to bring lunches from home. It would blow the budget for the federal government (assuming it had a budget)!
Last edited by lifelongMOgal; 07-21-2011 at 02:24 PM..
Man pizza hut and papa johns?? I went to catholic school and if you didn't clean up the slop off your plate you didn't get recess. Priest inspected your tray before you could take it up. You were in dire straits if you got caught stuffing some beets into your empty milk carton.
There were different vendors at my kids' middle school every day, e.g. Subway, McDonald's, etc. Those lunches were not part of the school lunch program, though. The kids paid for them separately.
Papa John's pizza at school? Rita...are you serious?
Well, my elementary and high schools had Pizza Hut... but I hate Pizza Hut's pizza. My middle school had Papa John's, which is my favorite chain pizza.
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