new school lunch rules

[keird]

My 3 year old didn't like her grandmother serving cod and only likes 'pink fish' like daddy (salmon). She came home the other night hungry and devoured the bison that I cooked for my wife and I. This $1 dollar per oz. filet, medallion or whatever you call this cut of bison was mommy & daddy's treat for the week and our little darling starts chewing and sucking the medium rareness right out of my delicious steak - it made me proud. Then I showed her a video of bison in the event that she couldn't readily identify the meal.

We knew that she liked garlic before she was 1. Her future boyfriends had better know how to cook or be able to pay for some damn good restaurants.

 

[OverVolt]

People are kind of upset about the new menu. So thats what is going on.

 

[DrPizza]

They raised the school lunch prices for faculty - it's nearly $5 now. I used to get my lunch there almost every day. Last June, I got a taco. I thought I was just getting the entree (not the whole lunch) which costs a bit less. I made the mistake of putting some lettuce and tomato on the taco. That turned it into a whole meal by the guidelines, so I had to pay for a whole meal. I vowed to start packing my own lunch & saving money.

I received a questionaire - why aren't faculty buying as many lunches these days? "Friday, I had a 6oz filet mignon and half of an acorn squash, with a 22 oz bottle of water. I got the filet on sale @ 7.99 per pound, and the squash was 50 cents for the whole thing. Altogether, it was a dollar less than it would cost me in the cafeteria, where you served the same pizzas I can buy for 5 for $5, and use a $1 off 5 coupon, so they'd cost 80 cents each for a microwave pizza that I'd have to pay $4.55 for (though I'd get about 20 cents worth of milk, and an apple worth about 25 cents at the grocery store)"

 

[DCal430]

When I was young and in grade school, I remember it seemed I was the only one who had to pay for their lunch, seemed like at least 90% of the people had free lunch, and those who didn't just brought their lunch. Each month I would go to the "cafeteria lady" and give her a check from my parents and I would get a new lunch card for that month. I remember the first few weeks of first grade I had to bring money each day before they set my account up though. Their were some days I forgot my money and the school was kind enough to front my lunch and late me pay the next day. Ah memories.

 

[DCal430]

One terrible thing, is the dumpsters at the schools here are filled with uneaten food. So much food is simply thrown away. Food that is still good. Milk that isn't even expired is destroyed, fruits that are still good are thrown in the trash. All food and drinks put out for the day that isn't eaten is destroyed.

I still remember at my H.S those who purchased lunch meals, or got the free lunch meals were required to take every item, and were informed to throw away anything they didn't want, because any food left over is thrown away.

Staff at the schools here often wonder why the food has to be destroyed, why can't it given away, the government says it is a liability to give it away, and it must be destroyed.

 

[Newbian]

Sorry but not being allowed to let your kid bring their own food sounds very odd to me.

Granted when I has in school the food was fantastic when I was in grade school but when I reached high school (was a small school so it was k-12) it started to get crappy because of the cut backs thus most started to bring their own food and most of the high school students didn't even eat it in there anymore and instead outside if it was nice or in the gym / home ec room as it was part kitchen and part desks.

Not to mention the allergy issue but as long as they don't prevent all the kids from bringing say a peanut product like some schools try to do and piss everyone off it's fine as those kids can eat somewhere else.

I think the problem is generally it's something the schools generally lose money on and too many don't fix the problem but instead force idiotic fixes that only makes it worse.

 

[KaOTiK]

All through school I brought my own lunch. Every once in awhile I'd buy lunch at the school, but 99.5% of the time I brought it from home. Usually a pbj, some snacks, fruit, and some kind of juice or water usually. I freaking love pbj's to this day and have one almost daily lol.

 

[kranky]

I received a questionaire - why aren't faculty buying as many lunches these days? "Friday, I had a 6oz filet mignon and half of an acorn squash, with a 22 oz bottle of water. I got the filet on sale @ 7.99 per pound, and the squash was 50 cents for the whole thing. Altogether, it was a dollar less than it would cost me in the cafeteria, where you served the same pizzas I can buy for 5 for $5, and use a $1 off 5 coupon, so they'd cost 80 cents each for a microwave pizza that I'd have to pay $4.55 for (though I'd get about 20 cents worth of milk, and an apple worth about 25 cents at the grocery store)"

C'mon, DrPizza, sure you can buy frozen food cheaper than you can get it in a place that is serving you, but ambiance ought to be worth a little something, right?

 

[Exterous]

The thing that really surprised me was how common it was to have A lunch start around 10am.

C'mon, DrPizza, sure you can buy frozen food cheaper than you can get it in a place that is serving you, but ambiance ought to be worth a little something, right?

To be honest I am kind of surprised DrPizza buys frozen pizza. Given his apparent handiness and name I would have thought he would bake pizza on a pizza stone he made out of stone and goat bones around his farm in a pizza oven he and his sons built next to the barn which, in the winter time, helped to keep the animals in the barn warm

 

[Azraele]

Granted, I'm getting this from 3 small children - no idea what is actually going on here.

Call the school and see what's really going on.

 

[LookBehindYou]

I'm so glad my wife makes my son lunch every morning. He usually wants the same thing everyday (PB&J) but at least I know he's getting a good complete lunch and wont be starving all day.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Oh man I loved my brown bag lunches... Pepperoni and Ketchup sandwiches.

 

[soulcougher73]

I dont think i ever once had to buy lunch at school from K-12. We always brought a lunch from home my mother packed for us. And this was in CA Bay Area just FYI..not where i currently reside

Man times sure suck now. Glad i dont have kids.

 

[irishScott]

Is Bloomberg your principal?

 

[irishScott]

I used to send my daughter to school with canned food, and a P38 opener.

Nowadays that would likely be considered a weapon, your kid would be expelled and you would get a call from social services.

 

[ElFenix]

Oh man I loved my brown bag lunches... Pepperoni and Ketchup sandwiches.

D:

 

[wirednuts]

i can make a lunch for cheaper and healthier then hot lunches cost at school. if they told me i couldnt pack a lunch for my kid i would personally go down there and make sure i can.

 

[irishScott]

i can make a lunch for cheaper and healthier then hot lunches cost at school. if they told me i couldnt pack a lunch for my kid i would personally go down there and make sure i can.

This. One of my most vivid memories is walking down to the cafeteria for the first time, and then smelling the cafeteria. It made me want to vomit. I got by with a PB&J kit that day, and my mom made my lunches for me from then on.

 

[Jadow]

my uncle has a friend who's a lunch lady and she said they take their forced fruit and veggies and it goes straight to the trash.

 

[Saint Nick]

D:

This.

 

[DrPizza]

To be honest I am kind of surprised DrPizza buys frozen pizza.

I can buy

I *can* buy, not "I buy." That little three letter word is there for a reason. The only time frozen pizzas ever happened in my house was when I had two growing boys who who ate me out of house and home. I'd pick up 10 of those cheap, nasty pizzas for under $10, and they'd be gone - just in the form of snacks - by the end of the week.

 

[piasabird]

Sounds like the O'Bamma food nazi's are at your school. In St Louis, MO, I have heard reports that the size in colories of the means have been drastically cut. For instance, if tater tots are served you get 6 of them. So lunch has become more like a snack. This is a kind of Food Nazi agenda that liberals love. The government will not be happy until they control every aspect of life.

Next will be the death panels.

Be very afraid of the pro-muslim Communistic Socialist government.

From what I remember, Teenagers are capable of consuming massive quantities of food. However, I went to high school for 3 years at an international school at Rome, Italy. They managed to have some pretty good food. I loved the blood oranges. They were reddish due to being grown near old volcanoes i.e. Mt Vesuvias (Spell). They shepards pie was not that bad either. A lot of time we just took our lunch. I use to eat a lot of different things from ham sandwiches to canned vienna sausages; havent eaten those in a while.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Parents irritate the fuck out of me. They pay less in taxes and whine more. They cry about the school food situation and then whine when schools try to do better.

I am going to agree with you, what the shit.

 

[lxskllr]

I *can* buy, not "I buy." That little three letter word is there for a reason. The only time frozen pizzas ever happened in my house was when I had two growing boys who who ate me out of house and home. I'd pick up 10 of those cheap, nasty pizzas for under $10, and they'd be gone - just in the form of snacks - by the end of the week.

I like cheap frozen pizzas. I buy bottom end, and top end. It's the ones in the middle you have to watch out for. Cheap pizzas aren't at all like real pizza. You take them on their own terms, and they make a tasty snack. Top end pizza is good, but kind of spendy, so I don't often get them; I'll just go to a shop. The mid range /looks/ like a proper pizza, so you expect something good, but what you get is crap all around. It doesn't have the nice crispness of a cheap thin crust, and it doesn't have the flavor/consistency of a proper pizza. It sits in the no man's land, where they fuck EVERYTHING up.

 

[SunnyD]

My daughter was questioned by the assistant principle a couple weeks ago over what her beverage in her packed lunch was (IZZE). Because it came in a can.

Mind you, this is the daughter that is a vegetarian, and eats better than probably 89% of the school, combined. And the AP knows it.