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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2013 9:04:46 GMT -5
the problem has already been touched upon - healthier and fresher food options will cost more money and require more cooking ability to put together... hence higher property taxes/more school fundraisers. And we all know how much people love paying higher property taxes.
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Post by The Home 6 on Aug 28, 2013 9:18:00 GMT -5
the problem has already been touched upon - healthier and fresher food options will cost more money and require more cooking ability to put together... hence higher property taxes/more school fundraisers. And we all know how much people love paying higher property taxes. It is perfectly POSSIBLE to create healthful, tasty school lunches. The problem lies in paying for it. At DD1's school, the food is portioned out in sealed single-serving trays before it gets to the cafeteria. The lunch lady (there is only one) simply has to heat them. It's sad that the days of homemade bread at school lunch are gone, but the only way to get them back is to shell out more money. Or pack your kids' lunch-today is DD1's first day of first grade and she wants an "Elvis taco"(peanut butter and sliced banana in a soft taco tortilla).
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Post by Shooby on Aug 28, 2013 9:18:23 GMT -5
What's so hard about serving fresh baby carrots? The notion that healthy food cost more is bunk in my opinion.
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Post by Shooby on Aug 28, 2013 9:19:28 GMT -5
As for school lunches, i just wrote out $750 dollars worth of checks to put into my 3 kids accounts. $250 won't last long.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 28, 2013 9:26:13 GMT -5
This may be an unpopular idea, but if the full cost of school lunches was paid by those eating them, then perhaps....while the cost would go up for the family, there would be less waste.
Someone is paying the cost. I just heard on the news that one school district just lost $30,000 in a few months so it is the schools.....and ultimately the taxpayers.
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Post by 973beachbum on Aug 28, 2013 9:39:51 GMT -5
And so it begins.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2013 9:51:26 GMT -5
I do think that schools should NOT be serving Pizza Hut, McD's, etc. I think this is corrupting the school to bring in that type of fare. Kids can certainly be served a healthy tasty meal. Baked or grilled chicken instead of fried, etc. But, the problem is everything under the sun becomes a nutritional evil. We pretty much had bashed red meat into the ground. We had a Taco Bell in my dorm in college my Jr and Sr year. You could even use your meal plan there. It was AWESOME. Ill admit, I'm not a healthy eater. It's something I'm working on, because I want DD to be healthier than me.
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Post by Shooby on Aug 28, 2013 10:03:31 GMT -5
I just don't like the preferential treatment to give on business an "in". I know it is done for many other things but i just find that to be blurring the lines. In college, fine or a private school. But public funded schools, i think that is wrong.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 28, 2013 10:04:25 GMT -5
I do think that schools should NOT be serving Pizza Hut, McD's, etc. I think this is corrupting the school to bring in that type of fare. Kids can certainly be served a healthy tasty meal. Baked or grilled chicken instead of fried, etc. But, the problem is everything under the sun becomes a nutritional evil. We pretty much had bashed red meat into the ground. We had a Taco Bell in my dorm in college my Jr and Sr year. You could even use your meal plan there. It was AWESOME. Ill admit, I'm not a healthy eater. It's something I'm working on, because I want DD to be healthier than me. The difference is that your Taco Bell addiction was not subsidized by the taxpayer.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 28, 2013 10:11:26 GMT -5
It probably was to some extent. Most students qualify for federally backed loans. Those have a cost to the taxpayer. The federal government was spending money on Pell grants and subsidized loans so that college students could put that money in Taco Bell's pocket. My high school didn't even have a kitchen. We had a big cafeteria with a Taco Bell, Subway, and Pizza Hut in it. You either brought your own lunch, or bought fast food everyday. The kids on free and reduced lunch had to work in the franchises for half of their lunch period in order to get their free meal. It was government funded free labor for fast food franchises.
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Post by The Home 6 on Aug 28, 2013 10:20:37 GMT -5
What's so hard about serving fresh baby carrots? The notion that healthy food cost more is bunk in my opinion. Baby carrots are easy. So are sliced cucumbers, green peppers, and other fruits and veggies. Which (in my opinion) should make up a large portion of any meal. It is possible to create healthful entrees that children will eat-even pizza and chicken nuggets can be made over to be just as tasty and quite a lot better for you. It's just easier (and cheaper) to have prepackaged, previously prepared 'vomit'. If DD's school were going to serve chicken nuggets out of boneless skinless chicken breasts, breading and baking them by hand, I expect they might have to hire more than one lunchlady.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2013 10:21:39 GMT -5
It probably was to some extent. Most students qualify for federally backed loans. Those have a cost to the taxpayer. The federal government was spending money on Pell grants and subsidized loans so that college students could put that money in Taco Bell's pocket. My high school didn't even have a kitchen. We had a big cafeteria with a Taco Bell, Subway, and Pizza Hut in it. You either brought your own lunch, or bought fast food everyday. The kids on free and reduced lunch had to work in the franchises for half of their lunch period in order to get their free meal. It was government funded free labor for fast food franchises. While I did not have any loans for my undergrad (thanks dad!), I'm sure that the were plenty that did. So yes, I'd agree that there is some tax money going in there. Our college had a contract with Pepsi, so we had all the Pepsi owned franchises on campus. And you couldn't get a Coke there to save your life. When I went back a few years later for grad school, you could get Coke in the general store, but that's it.
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Post by greeniis10 on Aug 28, 2013 12:21:45 GMT -5
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Post by greeniis10 on Aug 28, 2013 12:27:19 GMT -5
Mmmmkay... I've tried to post 3 times, but it's not working. Just ignore.
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Post by The Home 6 on Aug 28, 2013 20:47:05 GMT -5
Now I'm curious as to what you were going to say!
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