School districts everywhere are doing just that.
First it was no homebaked/homemade food for parties because.. "because, well, we don't know where it came from and the Health Department hasn't approved your kitchen". The Soccer Moms were all fine with that because they couldn't cook anyway. Now the fricken state is dictating what can and cannot be served in school cafeterias. That, after years of outsourcing food to places like Taco Bell and Pizza Hut and building schools with minimal kitchen facilities. The most some of the new schools can do it put stuff in the warming tray.
Funny because 10 years ago when they started that B/S I called the district ranting and raving. A friend who worked for the district told me to be careful because they do record telephone conversations with trouble makers.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
yeah, well - maybe you never had a child that got sick or had a milk allergy reaction to food some parent brought in for the homebake party.
alot of these regulations wouldn't be needed if businesses acted responsibly. but they don't. they would cook your food in reprocessed urine, if they could figure out a way to make it taste good and it accrued to their bottom line profit.
"The Soccer Moms were all fine with that because they couldn't cook anyway."
LOL
I know exactly what you're saying, it's really, just, well, weird to see what they serve in the school cafeterias. It's all still-packaged "something" that the kids grab off the piping hot tray and place onto their plate. The lunch lady doesn't even touch the food. Slides the tray into and out of the warmer, that's about it.
My kids bring their lunches, they hate the stuff there. It's just....weird.