What are they feeding our kids????!!!!

[farrier!]

I find it really interesting how much difference there is between schools in different areas.

Msbear Nothing to apologize for! I came here to vent my frustrations so I don't end up flat out telling her what I think.

He did finally eat the drumstick and his few veggies. My daughter ended up having to debone the chicken for him. We will only have him for a day or maybe two more then his dad will be home for a month and we will not be needed until he goes out again.

Next time I am at their house I will look at the lunch menu for the grade school.

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

I got to thinking about all this yesterday and remembering my grade school days and the wonderful lunches..as much as I hate to say..back in the early 60s....the best fried chicken, real mashed potatoes, from scratch pizza..meatloaf, pnut butter cookies to die for!! Orange juice bars..this was in Fl....but I also remember that at home, eating out was rare and when we did it was usually a home style place. My parents raised what we ate meats included. As an adult there are only two foods I don't eat. Which all this said..re enforces what is already been said..it is what we as parents and society have chosen for our children!!

btw..I talked to my granddaughter last night..I ask her what she had for lunch..she took her lunch..turkey sandwich, pickles, chips, cookies and gatorade...I ask about the school lunch and did she ever have the salad bar...they no longer offer it..not enough kids eat it...sigh

 

[AHappychick]

Did you read the artical about the company that supplies the beef to schools all over the US? it is soaked in so much clorine and bleach that they have now found the levels are way too high and the bacteria like e-coli are STILL in it!!!

My ds will be brown bagging it until he is 18 I doint care HOW much he may hate me. He is 4 now and has never had fast food, not once. But I make all sorts of sweets and such to eat.

 

[Msbear]

That was my original plan.. no fast food.. ever. It worked well for a while then, in a pinch, we stopped at Wendy's for some nuggets on a road trip when he was a little over 2 yrs. old.

Everytime we'd go past a Wendy's he would ask for it. I do give him fast food every once in a while but not often and we do get the fruit cup or sliced apples instead of ff and always get juice or milk instead of soda. I think the parents that are using fast food as a source of nutrition is where the real problems occur.

I babysat my neice a few weeks ago. Her dad (hubby's bro) brought out a cup of easy mac for her lunch. She is 2. I said, is this all she has for lunch? He said, "when you cook it, there is a lot of food in there"

Are you kidding me!!? I asked what other foods does she eat? He said that she won't eat anything else right now.

This is the problem. Parents are letting their children decide what is best for them. I feel so sorry for her. She came to Thanksgiving dinner at my house (I do Thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas because no one else in Rusty's family knows how to cook) and she wouldn't eat anything.. not mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, baked apples, turkey!!! nothing That is just sad. And mom (SIL) run a hospital. She RUNS A HOSPITAL... like six figure salary! So, it's not just uneducated people.. it's what is easiest. And many think that if it's sold in a grocery store and advertised for on tv, that it cannot be bad for you. They don't realize that these are snack foods and are not REAL FOOD and shouldn't be consumed instead of real food. There really needs to be a healthy lifestyle class in school to show kids what is food, what isn't and how longterm use of this fake food can affect your body and overall health.

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

MsBear..I agree..what happened to Home Ec and nutrition classes in school?

 

[PineappleMama]

^ I donno. Our home etc class, this was 8th grade, we learned to make blueberry muffins and chocolate chip cookies from scratch (WOOT!) but the 'meal' we were taught to prepare was Pillsbury cresent dough rolled up around some lunchmeat and cheese and then baked... not exactly grama's pot roast. Let's see, that was... approximately (

) 15 years ago... if things had gotten that "Quickie Meal" back then I can only imagine at what it's like now. And that was NOT in Arlington, that was back when I lived out in W'ford (MUCH smaller town, appx 15k people) so *shrug*

I was peeved when they took the salad bar away at the kids' school... they have this shrinky dink'd one, so cute, with a short person sneeze guard... it wasn't a big thing, but it did have a bin of salad mix (yes iceburg), and then other things like tomatoes, broccoli, and fruit to go with it. The kids could help themselves. Particularly nice for the vegetarians in the school, or those who can't eat today's particular item for diet/taste reasons... they could load up their tray with a HUGE salad and it was no big thing at all. Or, they could add a small salad to their meal with no problem... no additional charge, it was just there as an option. Well, now that's been taken away, but darned if they don't now offer ice creams, gatorade, and chips... so much better.

When DS started there it wasn't that bad. I liked the fiesta salad (in my day it was called Mexican jambalaya) plain white rice, a tomato/meat sauce (that no, did NOT turn the rice orange with the grease!), shredded lettuce and cheese... not uberhealthy, but not too bad and with the salad bar, and other side veggie options it was okay. Well of course they did away with Fiesta Salad ... don't have ANYTHING like it... but hey, now we have chicken FRIES to go with the chicken nuggets and chicken patties and popcorn chicken. Although, new legislation made it to where schools can't fry anything, it has to be baked/heated in ZERO oil. Still, you can only eat so many chicken parts before you

Fast Food, Frozen Dinners, etc are all so much easier. Particularly in duel-income houses. For folks like us that may be a bit easier. I'm home and can whip something up. Freeze the extra for those 'rushed days'. Moms (and Grannies) going to work has changed a lot of things. Many are a great thing, no doubt there! But some things... like supper... just got put by the wayside. Fine if you're an adult, eat what you want. But you and your spouse should give a flip about what your kiddos eat. It really is NOT that hard.

*note 'you' was just to that hypothetical duel income couple. Hope no one thinks I meant a specific person.

 

[MeatKing]

Can't believe what kids eat now a days, I have a four year old, who asked me this weekend, why I don't send dessert on her lunch.. I was like dessert, yes that's your strawberries, blueberries ect honey.. She said no she wants choclolate pudding or candy! What the heck! who does this? On thier lunch everyday, crazy... Anyways I suspect the next few years will be intresting around here!

In the mean time, I will continue to argue with her, no junk food! It makes it hard though when other parents do it!

We were in the grocery store and she told me wanted the scoobie snacks instead of fruit on her lunch, I read it too her.. I said the first ingrediant is sugar honey.. Not a chance, its not real food.. Drives me nuts.. Wish the school would seperate the kids, " healthy eaters/ junk food kids..." I know this doesn't help the junk food kids, but jeez It makes it really hard to feed your kids healthy when they alow junk in the schools! They should ban it!

sorry for ranting people! ahhh

 

[mom'sfolly]

I think the lack of healthy food options is often just lazy parenting. My nephew always wanted cookies for breakfast, and at home he got them. He never asked me after the first time. My SIL asked how I got him to eat breakfast (nothing fancy at our house, cereal, toast, homemade muffins) and I said I didn't let him eat anything else. She just would let him have the cookies, because it was easier. Easier because she got to drink her coffee in peace, and she didn't have to find other food for him.

I've found if I put out fruit and veggies after school, sliced and ready to eat, they mysteriously disappear.

 

[chocolate m'scovy]

mom'sfolly :

I've found if I put out fruit and veggies after school, sliced and ready to eat, they mysteriously disappear.

Quite right! Today we snacked on radishes, and my brother ate dried apricots, because they were sitting out.​

 

[PineappleMama]

^ Amazing isn't it? Happens every time there's a veggie and/or fruit tray.

Our latest surprise 'treat' is the nut bowl... and no I don't mean what my MIL calls our house... I splurged on some In Shell nuts over the holidays... sort of an impulse/on sale, not too awful healthwise snack buy... the kids went NUTS on them... granted getting to use the pliers and hammer add some fun, but they seriously LOVE those nuts. It was an assortment, filberts, walnuts, almonds, etc. It was gone like *snap* So... BONUS went to Kroger after Christmas, they have the big bins of nuts right? Well, since Christmas was over and they had tons left = time to clearance!! Regularly like $5+ per pound, they had their produce bags filled and tied with a $1 sticker... weighed one just to see and it was a good THREE pounds... of papershell pecans... for ONE DOLLAR! They had the same kinds of bags of walnuts and mixed nuts too. So, the nuttiness has continued. They even crack up extras and ask for them to be a treat in their lunch. Boggling... I love my kids. They never cease to amaze me.