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By: Hilary

Hilary — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 02:09:15 +0000

In reply to Ang. Holy Guacamole, those looke great! Good ideas, I should print that off!

By: Hilary

Hilary — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 02:01:51 +0000

In reply to Havok. I am a fan of kids who really need reduced lunches, I just wish we were giving them something better.

By: Ang

Ang — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 04:28:46 +0000

I remember polony and salad lunch plates and the best melted cheese and tomato toasties. Mum used to go on roster occasionally and we always ordered lunch on those days for a treat. For my own kids, I like to do big cook ups every few weeks and freeze a heap of stuff that I can just pull out and plonk in the box without any other prep required. Sausage rolls, quiches, pizza rolls, sandwiches etc etc. Since we homeschool and only pack lunch boxes once a week it’s not hard to keep stocks up, I also have a list of snack ideas pinned up inside my pantry door. It’s here if anyone wants to check it out: http://angathome.com/2012/04/07/no-or-low-sugar-snacks-for-kids-morning-and-afternoon-tea-snack-ideas/

By: Hilary

Hilary — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:39:02 +0000

In reply to Lynness. I guess I mostly remember them preparing it AT school... who knows. And to think I walked both ways uphill. :)

By: Havok

Havok — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:44:06 +0000

Pretty sure the school lunch program went out the window because they raised the “bar” of what they could serve, without raising funding to the schools. So, prices went up, but “quanititiy” went down – and if you live in a “nicer” area, you’re probably getting less funding, and that doesn’t help balance it out, either. I know my high school (’05-’09)was in alower income area, so everyone got free breakfast (an actual item, a fruit, and a milk), no matter what lunch plan you were on, and at least half the kids at school got reduced lunch prices (and regular price was only like 1.80 or something a day). There was an entree, full salad bar, random other fruit and or vegetable choices, and milk. And delicious! But, that was before the lunch-system-overhaul…I’d hate to think what they’re doing there now – but hopefully nothing has changed.

By: Lynness

Lynness — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:10:06 +0000

Totally with you on the bento boxes! Yeah, school lunches are nasty, but I think they were even when I was a kid. I don’t remember most of what I had, but I do remember limp, greasy french fries in middle school and canned peas in elementary school (the absolute worst way to serve peas- I thought I hated them for years because of the school ones). I remember oh-so-causally covering my peas with my napkin so that the janitor wouldn’t see that I hadn’t eaten them. (Because I thought the reason he stood by the trashcan was to check our plates…) How deceitful of kindergarten me! 🙂 We give our kids a new privilege and a new responsibility each birthday once they turn 8, and one of the first ones I gave my son was packing his OWN lunch! But now he’s in 7th grade and too cool for that (or else running too late every morning, one or the other…) and buys daily.