Good grief!
I packed big, healthy lunches for my kids for 18 years (several years where all of them were in school at the same time). Sure, it killed a half-hour of my evening before bedtime, but that’s what being a parent means. The rare times I gave the kids lunch money to buy school lunches they were not happy about it at all. They were not interested in any food the stinking school cafeteria had to offer, that’s for sure.
How lazy do you have to be to just hand your kids lunch money instead of packing them something good?
It’s not cheap anymore either. When my kids started school, 9 years ago, it was a $1.25, it’s now about $4. Ofcourse, only for the saps like us who actually have to pay for it if we buy it. (I pack them lunches also.)
For the few years my daughter went to public school, I packed her lunch. One school provided free breakfast, lunch, and after school snack for all the students because there were too many enrolled in the program to try to keep it straight. In other words, her magnet program was at that school to make it not look so bad academically, and about 25 kids out of the whole school weren’t worth the headache. I later found out that half her sandwich regularly went to the highest bidder. The kids were desperate for “real” food. Learning from my college nutrition class, I’ve never denied her food like candy. It’s always been available and I have regularly had to throw out old candy. People want what they can’t have. My daughter is skinny as a rail.