GOP: Drop fresh fruit, veggie rules for school lunches

[MissB]

41. Our school doesn't serve chicken nuggets, thank goodness!

The backstory about being the marketing person is fascinating! It was your job- hard to call you a hypocrite for that.

Our school is a bit odd in that we have a vendor come in to provide lunch. He makes it onsite and there is a variety of foods available each day (things like fresh baked pita bread, homemade hummus). Yes, there is pizza available but at least he is using organic meat, locally sourced. The kids can order lunch in the morning if they want so its ready to pick up. More expensive - lunches are more along the lines of adult priced lunches - but they also use good ingredients.

The grade school lunch program is similarly run, except they don't have an on site cooking facility so they have five different vendors set up to deliver meals (one vendor per day, so parents have to order/pay the month in advance).

My kids only buy lunch maybe once per week. They'd rather take lentil tacos or caeser salad, some yogurt and fruit (and the occasional crappy granola bar).

Kids food choice are so often tied to the choices that the parents make. It's hard to make a change in a kid if they haven't experienced certain types of food.