Posted on 10/18/2021 9:09:08 AM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
National food supply shortages and staffing challenges are making it harder for metro Atlanta schools to serve meals to students.
Faced with fewer pizza options and scarcity of French toast sticks, school cafeterias have had to rework breakfast and lunch menus...
When her schools could no longer order their popular shrimp poppers, they switched to crispy cod nuggets. They’re trying a cinnamon toast crunch bread at breakfast and pizza quesadillas...
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Whatever happened to broccoli casserole, yummy mashed potatoes and mystery meat?
You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat !
Sorry kids there is no free lunch today.
The children…..the children…..
Let’s go Brandon!
Somebody supported these stupid Democrat sons of bitches.
Probably the same idiots who come here to write that the Republicans are in charge.
Talk about first world problems.
Oh noes...the great french toast famine of 2021.
Is it really a food supply problem or did people leave or were let go for not being vaccinated. Notice, every time there is an issue there are several excuses to go along with staffing problems. Somebody needs to ask what happened to the staff.? Are they waiting in ships off California to be delivered too? Don’t think so.
I still remember the school lunches from 1952-1964. All at the various schools I ate at were great, even the backwoods hillbilly school I went to!
The only place that had bad lunches was at Aztec NM back in 1956. Those meals were so bad kids were constantly puking the slop back up on their trays. I got mom to make me a sack lunch there. Other school lunches in that area were great!
Faced with fewer pizza options and scarcity of French toast sticks, school cafeterias have had to rework breakfast and lunch menus...
When her schools could no longer order their popular shrimp poppers, they switched to crispy cod nuggets. They’re trying a cinnamon toast crunch bread at breakfast and pizza quesadillas
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pizza quesadillas
French toast sticks
shrimp poppers
crispy cod nuggets
shrimp poppers
cinnamon toast crunch bread
I’m more worried about the starchy, fried convenience foods masquerading as school lunch. No wonder the U.S. population is now 40% obese.
David Wilkerson wrote THE VISION in 1973, prophesying a future with food shortages, inflation, new cars becoming difficult to buy, etc. It’s coming to pass.
Maybe they could just have a bowl of cereal and a banana, just like the kids who actually eat breakfast at home.
Clearly it is the unjabbed using up their sick/vacay time prior to being let go. And, let go without unemployment.
This is happening right in my town - I don’t see how the local school system will not shut down within the next month. We rely on busing, and there is a Nov deadline for being jabbed. There was a recent call from the schools for filling bus driver jobs and food service jobs. Gotta think it’s happening to ALL the various jobs in the schools.
Our school served fantastic lunches! Baked chicken, real hom÷ made oven baked mac and cheese, salad, veg and rolls or bread and milk and a desert...It was delicious and you could eat as much as you wanted. Even back then we had free or reduced lunches based on income. Or, you could bring a bagged lunch from home.
Our school went up to grade 6. Each week, a 6th grader went to the cafeteria to help with lunch and in return, your lunch was free for that week.
Our ‘job’ consisted in setting up the tables and chairs, placing salt and peppers on the tables, and serving the students as they came through the food line.
When lunch was finished, it was more fun for me to continue to work in the kitchen helping to clean up than it was to join the other kids at recess.
Is there some law today that prevents students from being able to pitch in in the cafeteria?
I know some schools have prepared lunches brought to the school, because they don’t have kitchens or because the county feels that an institution s<”h as a jail or nursing home can produce those lunches and deliver them more cost effectively than to outfit the schools with kitchens.
It seems to me that in many cases the current system in inefficient and a turnoff to the kids.
T[day, kids can’t have a knife to butter their bread or cut their meat because butter and seasonings aren’t allowed on th÷ table. Any bread or rolls has a bit of butter brushed onto the bake and serve rolls, and most of the foods are junk foods and finger foods.
Some schools serve the same thing every day...burgers, fish stix, pizza, burritos, tacos and a salad bar, cookies and french fries. That’s it.
It’s all easy finger foods, no silverware necessary, no seasonings allowed.
If I had to serve that food at home, it would cost an arm and a leg and everyone would get tired of it pretty quick.
When I started teaching some 40 years ago, the cooks in the school kitchen actually cooked. Now, basically they heat already prepared food.It’s not just laziness or even a case of economy, but rather regulation.
Over the last several years the government has issued requirements that mean that each meal served has to have so many calories, so many mgs. of sodium, so much protein, etc. etc. These things can’t be determined by kitchen staff if they cook from scratch, so they buy prepared meals from large companies that specialize in school breakfasts and lunches—and dinners too in some places.
What ever happened to PARENTS FEEDING THEIR OWN KIDS BEFORE SCHOOL & sending them to school WITH A SACK LUNCH?????
NO TAXPAYER EVER PAID FOR MY SCHOOL MEALS-—or for my 3 brothers.
Some school districts are offering $1000 to parents who will bring/pick up their kids at school.
Coming soon: Purina Student Chow.
Staffing problems because they were fired for not being jabbed. This year’s shortages and poor service were caused by the vax mandate. This was foreseen and intended. Are they going to try for a third year of misery? What will be the reason in ‘22?
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