Posted on 09/21/2019 4:11:24 PM PDT by RummyChick
At one of my grandkid’s public school, the kids are not allowed to bring anything with sugar in it. Fresh fruit or snack crackers, but nothing with sugar or peanuts. The little guy doesn’t know any different, so he doesn’t complain, but I hate that kind of authoritarian crap.
My kids had envious friends because they had home fried tortilla chips in their sack lunch rotation. I didn’t even make the tortillas, I just cut them,fried them and salted them. When I packed my kids lunch they always had a protein, a piece of fruit or carrot sticks, a salty crunchy and a dessert. Any teacher who seize that lunch would have had me at the school in a heartbeat. Possibly even charging the teacher with petty theft and child abuse.
Here’s the deal:
In this era (that of the ubiquitous smart phone with integrated camera and instant-posting ability), what shocks me is that anyone at all is surprised by that low-bidder-supplied-poor-excuse-for-a-meal “lunch”.
I find it appalling that a parent doesn’t know what is being served at school, free or otherwise.
On a side note, I was in a private school through 8th grade and was served a school lunch on only a handful of special occasions. I never even ventured into the high school cafeteria until my junior year when I had the bright idea to save my mother some hassle (I had a great mom).
The “food” I was served made me sick to my stomach and I never went back. That was almost 40 years ago.
Obviously parents don’t give a shit.
And I never threw out any food except that one day in the cafeteria...
But meat, two veg, bread, fruit, and dessert — all for 35 cents, it was heaven.
Yep. Same here. But those lunches were based on the old food pyramid. Nowadays, that food pyramid is completely upside down -— mostly grains and vegetables, then small amounts of fruit, a tiny bit of meat and fat. No sugar. I’m surprised they’re not serving kids crickets and grasshoppers! That pyramid wasn’t even put together by dieticians or nutritionists, or ANY kind of medical input. I forget where I read it, but some radical environmentalist type put it together, if I remember correctly.
Zoom in, and that’s marinara sauce. For WHAT? I don’t know
Why, for those delicious looking cheesy bread sticks/hotdog buns with some cheese melted on it, of course!
Having said that, I checked the school’s lunch menu, and they have a wide variety of items available -— salads, sandwiches, pizza, and weird entrees like the one pictured. Except for the salads, my mom would have considered most of that as junk food, though.
Yes, it reminds many of the other pupils that they don't have loving parents who bother to prepare them a homemade lunch. This is what is now known as a "micro-aggression." The children with homemade lunches must be forced to "check their (White) privilege" and eat the same slop as everyone else.
Regards,
My kids didn’t like packing their lunch. They didn’t like all the usual lu ch foods like sandwiches and chips. They would wait until they got home and have leftovers from the previous night’s dinner.
For a brief time my son had access to a microwave and he did take leftovers then.
So glad my kids have graduated.
Looks like a “Bernie Meal.” (Similar to a Happy Meal, but it is free and it is all you can have.)
You heathen!
You’ve just desecrated all of that meat! /s
LOL!
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Always had some sort of fish on Friday because the Catholic kids didn’t eat meat on Fridays.
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