Posted on 11/08/2014 3:05:27 AM PST by Bettyprob
Are you old enough to remember Roy Rogers lunch boxes?
Some nice links at the bottom
http://www.royrogersworld.com/LunchBox.htm
Fat is especially needed for children’s growing brains. I had a peanut butter on whole wheat sandwich and vitamin D milk for lunch every day in grade school.
"He who controls the spice controls the universe..."
This is one aspect of 'food sovereignty' issues.
School lunches....These kids aren’t getting the protein they need.
I would pack my kids’ lunches with peanut butter and honey on whole wheat with applesauce and carrot sticks. I’d throw in a treat too, such as a pack of fig newtons or a cookie. All three of my grown girls are now super slim and healthy.
I often work in a title 1 school where kids get free lunches provided by the government. Lunches have much improved in health over the years — it used to be disgusting — but I often see whole trays of food put in the trash. I don’t know how the kids get through the day.
The advantage of making lunches at home was that I was making food my kids would actually eat. No food = no nutrition. I have a hard time believing that a lot of these families can’t afford to pack a simple lunch. It’s really not that expensive.
I forgot about the crisis of peanut allergies.....
Entire schools have been turned into hazmat zones barring the dreaded peanut to placate the handful or less of students who are allergic to them....
Maybe mom should just tell their children, don’t eat them and if offered any food from a friend ask if it contains peanuts....
I know it’s a hard concept to understand if as a parent you feel entitled to demand the entire school conform to your child’s needs....so you don’t have to be a responsible parent...
All those studies don’t matter when it doesn’t get eaten.
Anyone ever notice that lactose intolerance and anti-gluten.....equates to the government "controlling your diet"....and they went on a mind-bending campaign to do it. And it worked.
“Now eat this one piece of ham and cup of distilled water.” -Michelle Obama
Based on age? Not gender - boys and girls grow differently depending on their age.
Based on age? A growth spurt at 11 will create a teenager-type destruction of quick eats in a home.
Low fat milk? Perfect for old overweight men, horrible for growing children.
My grandson turned his “bagged” lunch into a profit making business. Gotta love that kid!!
Hurt me!!
So what....... fantastic nutrition is not the be all end all. If the school lunch is not edible there is 0 nutritive value.
Liking what one eats trumps marginal nutritive increase
With a little sand in the food?
I saw what you did there...;)
ping for the defense
“would be happy with a pint of cherry tomatoes and a jar of pickles for his lunch”—cute.
I remember school lunch. It consisted of walking for 20 minutes to get home, eat a homemade meal, then walk back. On the odd day (weather) we HAD to eat lunch at school, we were sent with a packed, healthy lunch.
Shame that the school has even taken over this responsibility.
That was 7 years ago and it has nothing to do with the story. You should have used the example of the Chinese student who sawed off the head of another student at Donaldson-Brown Hall because at least they serve food there.
Whether a lunch is more nutritional is irrelevant if the kid doesn’t eat it. But there is an epidemic of sugar-related problems with kids these days because of their diet. The meat and two veggies meals we grew up with has been replaced with a Hot Pocket.
Good points. Also, nutritional analyses of a single meal are unreliable.
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