Posted on 01/19/2022 11:18:09 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
"“Not everyone can send their child with a home packed lunch or extra money to buy more than what is initially provided,” father Chris Vangellow told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “For some students, those school meals may be all they eat in a day. This is not enough. This is a failure to those children. Something needs to change.”
Photos of cafeteria lunches served at an upstate New York public school district have gone viral on Facebook, sparking community outrage.
A father posted photos of the lunches provided by his children’s school cafeteria, garnering national attention and frustration among parents concerned about the small portions and quality of the food. ..."
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What bothers me about this food is that it is extremely cheap and easy to make. It’s not real food: it looks like MacDonald’s with a few carrot sticks.
We used to get real food, like stew and meatloaf and potatoes and a veg. I will admit the one I remember most is chop suey, because they always burned the bottom and so it tasted awful, but the rest of our meals were OK, and it was all real food.
This “meal” is ridiculous: rice, raw baby carrots, and a couple of mysterious meat sticks?
And whatever we might think about the parents, consider this: your tax dollars are paying for this. And probably paying way too much.
I get some school systems do not allow parents to pack lunches for the their children anymore.
But if that is what my child was being fed at school, they would have some sort of supplemental food to the lunch.
There are “rules” that must be followed when packing a kids lunch these days too. No PB&J, no greedy sweets to make other kids jealous, etc. We have all seen the stories of cafeteria monitors taking packed lunch items away from kids too.
Many of these parents get plenty of government assistance to be able to provide a bologna sandwich, apple, and a snack. Buy the school milk or drink water.
On the other hand I see schools offering breakfast, lunch and afterschool meals too.
Why?
“Not everyone can send their child with a home packed lunch or extra money to buy more”
Then those “Everyone” people shouldn’t be bringing children into the world. Good grief! Pop out babies and expect taxpayers to foot the bill? I don’t think so.
Hey Parents......it’s not hard to pack a lunch for your kids.....or is it??
Simple fix - the principal or vice principal has to eat the provided lunch every day.
For years, Mom packed my lunch — a fried egg sandwich with mustard. My choice ‘cause I loved it. Still do. (No fridge at school, and no ptomaine.) We didn’t have a lot, but we had enough.
We couldn’t afford to buy school lunches (NYS) — $.24 for school lunch and $.02 for chocolate milk. I was jealous of the kids who could buy lunch.
You breed’m then you feed’m.
Why?
Because we send babies home from the hospital with people who have no ability or even desire to care for them, many of whom are drug addicted.
Slightly before that new policy we literally began subsidizing fatherless homes.
We homeschooled. The older ones made breakfast and lunch for the younger ones until they could make their own. By the age of five, they all made their own. When they moved out, we didn’t have to worry if they knew how to eat or cook.
It’s kind of funny, they range from one who fancies herself a foodie to one who opens and can and heats it up on a hotplate.
Ewww what is that? Turds and whey? That does look disgusting. And those carrots(?) look old and dry. And what is on that first tray? Is that mac and cheese and stewed tomatoes? Even if that is considered a “balanced” meal for kids these days I don’t think it would stick to the ribs and keep their energy up all afternoon.
A couple of footlong oven roasted chicken sub sandwiches, a pound of french fries improved by half of a bottle of ketchup, two oranges, an apple, half a cantaloupe, and a quart of milk would be a better standard lunch.
I had the same experience but not on a base. The school was a bit less than a half mile away. We had one hour to get all the Christmas Story level winter clothes on, walk home, eat lunch, gear up, walk back, ungear and get in our desks.
My mom raised 5 boys by herself after my dad split just as I was starting my Freshman year. Money was tight and we had to go on food stamps.
But every single morning she fed us breakfast and there were 5 identical lunch bags on the counter each with our names on them. Why she went to the trouble of putting our names on them still baffles me. They were identical after all.
I didn’t get regular hot school lunches until the next year when mom learned we were eligible for “free” lunches. The food was decent and there was plenty of it. There were no restrictions on fat content, salt content, and all that other Federal crap. Whole milk, chocolate milk, and juices were available. I remember the meat loaf with mashed potatoes and gravy being particularly good.
Every single thing the Feds touch they screw up. I used to except the military from that statement but that’s not true any longer.
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This liberal tripe has always annoyed me. Do these same kids starve to death during school vacations and summer breaks? Give me a break.
No student is "owed" a hot lunch in school. For years, my mother would pack me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with maybe a banana or apple and a thermos of milk and I never felt like I was starving or missing out.
It's not that the parents of these children are "too poor" to provide their children with a lunch, it's because they are too lazy and they just don't care. Why don't we just admit that this is the case?
Children who have parents who are not responsible enough to feed them have a much bigger problem than a missed meal.
In this area children and in the summer entire community is invited in for lunch . All meals are provided during school year and kids are sent home with weekend meals.
This is a nice middle class community. Encroaching powers of the district. Child abuse to leave neglected children with incompetent parents.
We homeschooled. Generally, our sons got a hot lunch every day, freshly cooked from scratch by my wife. She felt guilty if when they had sandwiches she didn’t also have a nice, hot bowl of soup to accompany the sandwich.
I saw that exact same photo in an article about prison food.
Things that make you go hmmmmmm....
“””I saw that exact same photo in an article about prison food.”””
Well most public skools are like a prison.
50 cents worth of institutional food and they probably get $5/meal from fedgov.
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