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An anonymous blogger has taken on the daunting challenge of eating public school lunches every day in 2010. Her blog, entitled "Fed Up: School Lunch Project," is worth scanning. The results (and pictures) are sick. ht John Locke Foundation |
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Mike C.
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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2010, 04:25:37 PM » |
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I take it schools don't have kitchens and kitchen staff any more ? The school lunches we ate sure as hell looked more like food than that.
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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2010, 04:29:18 PM » |
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Some do, according to the commenters, and their lunches are better.
Her school, though, yech .....
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« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2010, 04:32:55 PM » |
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The schools should be charged with cruel and inhumane treatment of minors....
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« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2010, 04:56:02 PM » |
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Not all schools serve crap like that. Our schools have kitchen staff that actually cook the food they serve. I love grilled cheese and tomato soup days. Somehow, I end up at school during lunch on those days....must be coincidence  |
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« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2010, 05:12:40 PM » |
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We had a cafeteria. I often took a bag lunch
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« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2010, 06:02:11 PM » |
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Cafeterias in my county vary widely in quality. The cafeteria I'm dining at this year is WAAAAY better than the school last year, but neither can compare to the high school I worked my first year. Have you ever eaten healthy food without seasoning of any kind? Yeah, nothing like cold, unseasoned, half cooked broccoli! Unfortunately, the health nazis want to make sure that no sneaky fat is in the diet of growing kids.
Now, I've eaten some nasty food in the Duval County (Jacksonville) cafeterias. That food was mostly starches.
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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2010, 06:11:26 PM » |
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Ewwwwww, I wouldn't eat that school lunch. Like I said, the cafeteria's baked chicken and shepherd's pie is GOOD, as is their veggie soup, chili, tuna fish, etc. Nothing comes in those nasty cellophane packages.
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« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2010, 06:19:45 PM » |
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Those pictures are absolutely disgusting. The peanut butter sandwich:  |
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2010, 11:16:17 AM » |
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Grandson described the lunches at his school as "disgusting".
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« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2010, 05:54:58 PM » |
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School lunch today was veggie beef soup or shepherds pie or spicy or plain chicken cutlet sandwich with fresh baked rolls, green beans, carrots, chef salad, orange, cooked apples or banana, chocolate or plain milk, orange or apple juice.
The teachers also have a separate salad bar and food area. Apple bread pudding for dessert today!
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« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2010, 06:24:23 PM » |
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School lunch today was veggie beef soup or shepherds pie or spicy or plain chicken cutlet sandwich with fresh baked rolls, green beans, carrots, chef salad, orange, cooked apples or banana, chocolate or plain milk, orange or apple juice.
The teachers also have a separate salad bar and food area. Apple bread pudding for dessert today!
I'll eat that. |
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« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2010, 06:42:13 PM » |
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I'm tellin' you, the veggie beef soup is good.
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« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2010, 06:13:07 PM » |
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Today, oven "fried" chicken, corn, green beans, various salad ingredients, freshly baked whole wheat rolls sweet or unsweetened tea or lemonaid. The kids had a choice of chicken or cheese pizza, corn, green beans, salad, whole wheat rolls, apple or orange juice, chocolate or plain milk, and choice of ice cream.
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« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2010, 08:15:39 PM » |
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School lunch today was veggie beef soup or shepherds pie or spicy or plain chicken cutlet sandwich with fresh baked rolls, green beans, carrots, chef salad, orange, cooked apples or banana, chocolate or plain milk, orange or apple juice.
The teachers also have a separate salad bar and food area. Apple bread pudding for dessert today!
ummm Sheperds pie Stolen from Home on the Range |
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« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2010, 10:39:14 PM » |
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Hey, I like that!
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« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2010, 10:40:41 PM » |
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Hey, I like that!
I thought you would. |
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« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2010, 07:10:57 AM » |
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When the kids were in elementary school, I had to pack them a lunch every day. the school did not provide any lunch service. Then we moved and the new schools DID have school lunches. I thought I was in heaven since I didn't have to pack lunches everyday.
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« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2010, 05:07:24 PM » |
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The federal remuneration for reduced/free lunches doesn't cover the cost of the lunch; however, the local school boards still use it to partially defray the cost because school lunches may be the only food the kids are getting all day.
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« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2010, 12:50:16 PM » |
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I loved school lunches!
Full disclosure, my Mom was the Lunchroom Lady in High School.
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« Reply #20 on: February 08, 2010, 07:25:17 PM » |
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School lunch today: Chicken teriyaki over rice, broccoli and cheese casserole (very excellent), fresh carrots cooked al dente, and pineapple upside down cake. The kids got more choices, but I didn't look at their line as I was running behind and only had about 15 minutes to grab and gobble.
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« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2010, 09:31:35 PM » |
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School lunch today: Choice of oven "fried" chicken, pulled pork, or nachos with cheese sauce, various veggies or salad, choice of orange, banana or pineapple/cherry trifle for dessert.
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« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2010, 09:59:38 PM » |
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First of all, we don't get food like that, sadly. It's all pre-packaged down at the centralized kitchen district spent a lot of money to build some years ago. Secondly, we don't get teachers' menu--there's no longer (hasn't been for several years now) access to food from the staff lounge--we get to cut into line with the kids to get our food.
I never even leave my classroom.
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I have kids on three continents and two states. I think I overdid it on the apron strings cutting thing, didn't I?
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« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2010, 10:03:31 PM » |
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Why is the govt. in the business of feeding kids?
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« Reply #24 on: February 10, 2010, 10:30:13 PM » |
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Graduated in 72. Lunches were very good all through my years in school.
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