good for them but I;ve lost county on the amount of times I;ve heard others state that they wished their child was given a halth lunch at the school.
I always reply with”why not you feed your child with what you want them to eat”
I always get this reply, “I have no time in the morning”
Really no time, then don;t have kids if you want the govt to feed and raise your child.
I am a single mother who works full-time. I make my child's lunch every evening (often two days' worth at a time) and put it in her backpack every morning. I would have to do this anyway, because my daughter's private Christian school (I make sacrifices for what's important) doesn't provide lunch service, but I would do it anyway. It takes very little time at all, but even if it did, I would MAKE time because it's important.
That having been said, other families who make different choices should not have to go through this.
No time? Really?
I leave for work at 4:45am. I pack a lunch that includes a meat and cheese sandwich, salad or raw veggies and dip, dessert, salty snack and water for the kiddos before they ever wake up.
Their father feeds them a good warm breakfast before taking them to school, before he goes to work.
If we can do it, so can others.
You are so right. That is such a cop out. I spend my Sunday afternoons cooking up good, quick stuff for the rest of the week. Do a whole package of bacon on the griddle and box it up (it'll be good cold or warmed up), wash and rip up some romaine and store it in a bag, slice up some tomatoes, hard boil some eggs and keep them in a bowl in the fridge, put a couple of chicken breasts on the Foreman grill and slice them up... then in 5 minutes in the morning, toast some bread or just grab a tortilla and you can pack up a BLT, or a Chef's salad. Salads can be packed up the night before, just pack crunchies and dressing separately or they get soggy. I cook up batches of turkey meatballs and keep them in the fridge or freeze them.
It is so easy to make good lunches, you just have to plan ahead. And there are so many healthy convenience foods now that there's really no excuse - bagged salad mixes, even individual dressings, mini envelopes of tuna or salmon... I could go on and on. That stuff gets expensive though, so I just make up my own dressings, etc. If you go to Smart & Final, they have all the little containers.
I also do homemade Belgian waffles that can be frozen. Pop them in the toaster oven for ten minutes, shmear 'em with some almond butter and grab a piece of fruit and you're out the door. A cup of Greek yogurt, throw in some blueberries and granola and you've got a great, portable breakfast.
I got really good at packing my own lunch when I worked for an airline because I did not want to eat that plane food all the time. It's even worse for those flying now... they don't get served anything at all.