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I think banning homemade lunches is a good thing, especially in Chicago, where lots of parents are poor minorities who let their kids have KFC and grape soda for lunch.

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uber_aj said:
I think banning homemade lunches is a good thing, especially in Chicago, where lots of parents are poor minorities who let their kids have KFC and grape soda for lunch.

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you cant buy KFC with food stamps, where are they getting the money to send their kids to school with fast food

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Laurelei said:
All that shit downing chocolate or strawberry milk, well that's just crazy.  The kids would have to eat more food to make up for vitamins and nutrients you get from drinking milk. Some kids hate white milk.  I'd rather them get the calcium and vitamins (and the sugar) from our 1% chocolate milk, that have it omitted from the meal completely.

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uber_aj said:
I think banning homemade lunches is a good thing, especially in Chicago, where lots of parents are poor minorities who let their kids have KFC and grape soda for lunch.

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you cant buy KFC with food stamps, where are they getting the money to send their kids to school with fast food

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Laurelei said:
All that shit downing chocolate or strawberry milk, well that's just crazy.  The kids would have to eat more food to make up for vitamins and nutrients you get from drinking milk. Some kids hate white milk.  I'd rather them get the calcium and vitamins (and the sugar) from our 1% chocolate milk, that have it omitted from the meal completely.

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not only do kids get the sugars from the milk in the form of lactose but
they get an additional 5 teaspoons of sugar in each of those little
cartons, 25 grams of sugar in all, doubling what 1% milk contains
yes, the nutritional value of added sugar is so important, no wonder the kids love it


they fortify milk with various vitamins, they enrich breads with many
other vitamins and nutrients, just read the package on those sheet pizza,
all kinds of extra crap is added and shitloads of sodium, the TVP patties
they call burgers contain as much calcium as the milk

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Our half pint 1% has 22g of sugar ( 3grams is 3 grams! right...?) but no seriously, it is high, I agree.  At the end of each school year there's an abundance of white milk, so about the last 2 or 3 weeks of school, we don't sell chocolate.  I notice a lot of kids either buying 2 OJs instead of a usual milk and juice, or coming through the line with sodas, gatorade(or something similar), and the most popular...drum roll please! energy drinks! Although I see energy drinks throughout the whole year.

I agree with the statement about our pizzas. Again, every school district is different in what type they serve, but our pizzas have something like 700mg of sodium per slice! That's just crazy. It does provide 468 IU Vitamin A and 264mg of calcium, so I don't know if they consider it a fair trade...but people would look at the sodium number and freak.

The burgers we have only provide 4.4 mg of calcium, whereas our milk provides 300mg.  The burgers have 260mg of sodium, which is great compared to the pizza.

Not trying to be argumentative, I've just been close to the school food system growing up.  I really love my job and I've had at least one student tell me that it's the only full meal they get regularly.  I feel responsible for providing a meal that's BALANCED in nutrition, quality, and taste.  It seems hard to provide all three in the way everyone wants them.  A group over here wants little-to-no fats or sodium. There's a group over here that is concerned with the food being processed or artificial. And then we have kids bitching about the taste.  So, it's really hard to decide what stays and what goes

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I don't understand how they can take normal ingredients and make food that tastes so bland. At my high school and junior high, the food just tasted awful and bland. Even the french fries were horrible, I can take a potato quarter it and throw it in the oven with some oil drizzled on it and come out with way better fries.

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yeah, everything in there tastes SO processed

i wouldnt doubt it if they were just heating up TV dinners in mass quantities, i lived right across my elementary school, so i would just sneak out and run across the street, especially when I forgot my homework/parent signature for a field trip

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I think banning homemade lunches is a good thing, especially in Chicago, where lots of parents are poor minorities who let their kids have KFC and grape soda for lunch. Also you never know, they might bake marijuana in the treats, effectively putting all the children in jeopardy. If you give them an inch, they'll take a mile.

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Laurelei said:
Our half pint 1% has 22g of sugar ( 3grams is 3 grams! right...?) but no seriously, it is high, I agree.  At the end of each school year there's an abundance of white milk, so about the last 2 or 3 weeks of school, we don't sell chocolate.  I notice a lot of kids either buying 2 OJs instead of a usual milk and juice, or coming through the line with sodas, gatorade(or something similar), and the most popular...drum roll please! energy drinks! Although I see energy drinks throughout the whole year.

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The burgers we have only provide 4.4 mg of calcium, whereas our milk provides 300mg.  The burgers have 260mg of sodium, which is great compared to the pizza.

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Not trying to be argumentative, I've just been close to the school food system growing up.  I really love my job and I've had at least one student tell me that it's the only full meal they get regularly.  I feel responsible for providing a meal that's BALANCED in nutrition, quality, and taste.

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