Actually, that brings back many a memory just like this...
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Posted on 12/23/2014 3:50:06 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Many parents undoubtedly think they are doing the best for their children by having them bring lunch from home instead of eating the lunches served in school. But recent studies clearly prove them wrong.
Home-packed lunches, the research showed, are likely to be considerably less nourishing than the meals offered in schools that abide by current nutrition guidelines for the National School Lunch Program.
That program is, distressingly, increasingly under attack.
But the program must not continue to be undermined, and more schools should be encouraged to participate. Nearly 32 million of the more than 50 million children in public elementary and secondary schools currently eat school lunches.
Those numbers, along with the recent findings on meals brought from home, make the contents of lunches served in school especially important to the health of America’s children, now and in the future.
“Kids are adaptable and sometimes need repeat exposures to new foods,” Dr. Cohen said. “Given enough opportunity, they can learn to like them.”
“If you only expose children to chicken nuggets and French fries, that’s what they’ll like to eat,” Dr. Baidal said. “Schools can help by giving foods creative names and presenting them in fun ways. Food service personnel can prompt children to try different foods when they come through the line.”
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Actually, that brings back many a memory just like this...
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Bull**** !!!!!!!!!!!
My kids ate bagged lunches for years—— they were/are very healthy.
I can’t imagine what this lady’s real agenda is? /s
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What a great comic strip.
I loved home ec in jr high but my mom had already taught us sewing and cooking. I was on FB with some nieces recently. I told them that when I was learning to make fudge, it would be so runny sometimes that we ate it with a spoon and other times, we could have used a sledge hammer. But, we learned-—eventually. Great memories. When we made messes, we cleaned them up, too.
I like to think I made decent lunches :)
Today Calvin would be on Ritalin.
“Eat yer government cheese and quit yer complainin! Them that complains about the government cheese don’t get no government crackers!”
That you jello?
Mmmmm Mmmmm!
Don’t say “bite me” to that one if you value your manhood.
Salem NH HS cafeteria was awesome. Mondays, hot dogs, beans, bread and butter, chocolate cake. Tuesdays, hot ham cheese sandwich, salad, apple, cookie. Wednesdays, spaghetti, meat sauce, bread sand butter, Apple crisp. Thursday, oven fried chicken, lots of grease, green beans, salad, bread and butter, cookie. Friday, pizza, salad, or tuna sandwich and slaw, brownie.
Every meal came with milk. This was in the 70’s. Apples could be had for the asking too.
I loved Ms Beely’s food. UNH food was great but it cost five star prices.
Yikes!
And we loved our lunch ladies back then.
I’m astonished that you remember that entire menu 40 years later.
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I did the same. was about 2 miles each way, Both uphill. -15 degrees. Wore our shows 'round our necks to save'em for school. Hostile Indians takin' pot shots. Had to shoot my pony. Things was tough.
Not to mention, you had to be on time gettin' back for the afternoon session. Gosh, how did we survive?
Sounds yummy. I grew up in a small town and my parents knew just about everyone including the cafeteria workers. I can remember we had ice cream sandwiches. When there were extras, we could buy them for $.05. I remember the day cokes went from a nickel to $.06. We really complained because we had to have a penny. We did not drink a lot of them like today. Yeah, this was back in the good ole days of the 1950’s-early 60’s. lunch was $.20 and then it went up to $.25.
We did. My grandfather in about 1890 went to school with a chunk of bread and butter for lunch. The boys took recess and collected firewood to keep the school warm.
He worked til he was 75 in the women’s shoe industry, that does not exist today. He raised 7 kids, lived to be nearly 100, smoked, did not drink, but loved his bread and butter.
I write this because a HS classmate of mine, parents from Poland, sent him to school with a lunch of two hard rolls, period. It worked for him too.
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