I am trying to work on a personal project examining what kids are fed for lunch at the local preschool and private/public schools. Anyone with any knowledge of the food and costs, please post. I want to try to put together a comparison.
What do they feed our kids?
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I don't believe any of the private schools provide lunch.
I would have thought no also. But someone told me that Gateway Academy did for $5 a day payable at the start of the semester. And that lunch was basically an offering from a local fast food place with milk or juice to drink. They would have Dominoes day, Chick-fil-a- day, McDonalds day, Taco Bell day, and KFC day and so forth.
There is a private school in Okaloosa that I understand gets their lunches through Golden Corral. Do not know the cost yet. But it is suppose to be a plate lunch, meat and two veggies, roll, desert. Milk or juice.
As I understand it (not working there and not having a child enrolled there, but having friends who do), the South Walton Montessori Academy in Pt. Washington doesn't provide lunch. They do, however, requireme that parents send healthy snacks and lunches from home. I don't know the specifics, but I'm fairly certain most processed foods and stimulating foods lke sugar, caffeine, etc., are prohibited.
Have you heard about the Sep. Time for Lunch school lunch event this year? I posted a link about that last week in another thread....
Have you heard about the Sep. Time for Lunch school lunch event this year? I posted a link about that last week in another thread....
Public school kids get a choice of hot dog, pizza, burgers, or sloppy joe. Not sure whats inside but looks and taste like dog #&$%. The kids are taught about healthy eating choices in health and PE classes but are contradicted when served lunches. Every kid I see puts extra salt on fried tator-tots when served. The biggest problem is not with the school because the teachers are teaching healthy eating habits but the parents/parent either supports the teachings or they tear everything back down by witnessing bad health habits. Some of the parental bad habits the children are witnessing and thinking is ok are smoking, drinking, no exercise, fried foods, lots of red meat, salty and sugary foods. Diet sodas, the list goes on. believe me when I tell you that the teachers not all but the majority teach good healthy habits all around whether it is food, exercise, politeness, love, and responsibility.
I believe the question was, what they are fed at lunch.
FWIW, lunch at the high school level is $1.90 per day and my kid has never really complained. Of course, I'm not sure how much of it he eats as there is normally evidence of a feeding frenzy in my kitchen when I come home from work. That could just be growing boy syndrome.
No dispute that kids witness bad habits, but I am not sure that was the topic. Besides, when you toss out red meat, fried white meat, fried cornbread, salty food, sugary food and diet coke (and sweet tea!), what else is there in a southern country diet?;-)
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Okaloosa County public schools provide their lunches through a central kitchen and they are delivered to be heated and served at the school. The lunches they provide are terrible in taste, appearance, and nutrition.
I grew up in the area and our lunch ladies provided soups, stews, chili, meatloaf, grilled cheese sandwiches, fresh rolls (!), cake squares, pudding, tossed salad, green beens, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, lasagna, spaghetti and a number of other freshly prepared meals each day. I didn't always love what was being served, but there was never any doubt that what I received on my plate was edible and (in an overall sense) nutritious.
When my children went through the same school system, they got cold fries, hot dogs, corn dogs, hamburgers, and "pizza" which was self serve from a lukewarm cart. I would have loved to give my children the $2.00 a day and told them to "Eat whatever Mrs. Jay puts on your plate!" like my mom told me. We don't do picky eaters in our family. Instead, I was stuck packing their lunches just so I could be sure they'd have something I would let them eat. I was simply appalled at what was being served, and I felt terribly sorry for the students that depended upon the school for their most nutritious (or only) meal of the day.
Liza Jackson Preparatory (a charter school -- which isn't the same as "private") at one time imported some of their hot foods from Golden Corral. Not sure if they still do. My youngest went to Liza Jackson, and the food there (wherever it came from ) was ten million times better than what I saw at the other schools.
I grew up in the area and our lunch ladies provided soups, stews, chili, meatloaf, grilled cheese sandwiches, fresh rolls (!), cake squares, pudding, tossed salad, green beens, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, lasagna, spaghetti and a number of other freshly prepared meals each day. I didn't always love what was being served, but there was never any doubt that what I received on my plate was edible and (in an overall sense) nutritious.
When my children went through the same school system, they got cold fries, hot dogs, corn dogs, hamburgers, and "pizza" which was self serve from a lukewarm cart. I would have loved to give my children the $2.00 a day and told them to "Eat whatever Mrs. Jay puts on your plate!" like my mom told me. We don't do picky eaters in our family. Instead, I was stuck packing their lunches just so I could be sure they'd have something I would let them eat. I was simply appalled at what was being served, and I felt terribly sorry for the students that depended upon the school for their most nutritious (or only) meal of the day.
Liza Jackson Preparatory (a charter school -- which isn't the same as "private") at one time imported some of their hot foods from Golden Corral. Not sure if they still do. My youngest went to Liza Jackson, and the food there (wherever it came from ) was ten million times better than what I saw at the other schools.
school lunch = 
doesn't sound like anything has changed in 25 years! 
doesn't sound like anything has changed in 25 years! I went to Walton County school a long time ago but our lunches were very good--I never forgave Coach Anderson for making me drink milk, but that is another story.
When I worked for awhile as a sub at WHS two years ago, I was appalled at the quality (or lack )of the food. It was horrible. I packed my lunch--the students were wanting healthy food, but what they were served was just not edible IMO.
In my mind I thought they needed to have a 60s style sit-in and refuse to eat or leave until someone did something about it.
Not sure about the rest of the schools here, but if nothing has changed in WHS, then it should.
We spend $ millions on a new building, but provide food that I wager you could not sell or even give away in the real world.