MCPS school lunch

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Anonymous wrote:On Thursday, CA became the first in the country to pass a bill (California School Food Safety Act) that if signed into law, would forbid the use of the ingredients found in some popular cereals, ice creams, drinks, candy, ice pops, cheese-flavored chips, jellies and more.

This Bill prohibits a school district, county superintendent of schools or charter school with grades kindergarten through 12th from offering foods or beverages containing red dye No. 40, yellow dyes Nos. 5 and 6, blue dyes Nos. 1 and 2, and green dye No. 3.

The bill stems from concerns these dyes would harm children’s ability to learn, as they have been linked to behavioral difficulties and decreased attention among children, according to a 2021 study by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.

Environment Working Group said that though “new science is available,” the US Food and Drug Administration’s current regulations of the dyes in food is based on research that’s 35 to 70 years old.

We are in MD, not CA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How's middle school lunch? Food and the lunch lines.

Teacher here. School food is gross. What is healthy, e.g., apples and bananas, goes uneaten. Lots of processed foods, fats, and sugar.

Your kid can throw out the fruit you send with them too

Also, fruit is just sugar anyway. Fats are essential, fruit is not. Processed stuff is still terrible.

Fruit also contain other vitamins and minerals. And they provide natural sugars.

[Anonymous]

I’m a HS teacher in MCPS. Most of the time, lunches are not appetizing. They’re usually all the same color - brown potatoes, brown cheese sticks, a tiny apple, and a milk. It’s free for many kids, but I wouldn’t pay for it and my kids don’t want to eat it. The pictures they show of food on the MCPS website are not accurate!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a HS teacher in MCPS. Most of the time, lunches are not appetizing. They’re usually all the same color - brown potatoes, brown cheese sticks, a tiny apple, and a milk. It’s free for many kids, but I wouldn’t pay for it and my kids don’t want to eat it. The pictures they show of food on the MCPS website are not accurate!

Ha, yes the foods camouflage with the recycable tray that carries the foods.

[Anonymous]

My MS kid used to beg to buy lunch in elementary school. Now he says it looks like mostly sad microwave pizzas and french fries with apples thrown in. So I send lunch now. Same for my ES kid-although she hankers for the pancakes and waffles she swears her school serves for lunch.

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Bring back 80s and 90s meals. Kids ate those!

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Anonymous wrote:Bring back 80s and 90s meals. Kids ate those!

What's not to like about excess salt and fat and overprocessed grains?

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we just moved to MoCo. My kids used to beg to buy school lunch in our old school district. Neither one asks to buy lunch in their MCPS schools. They say it's gross looking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we just moved to MoCo. My kids used to beg to buy school lunch in our old school district. Neither one asks to buy lunch in their MCPS schools. They say it's gross looking.

At least it is hot versus taking something warm from home only to find it not so warm at lunch time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:we just moved to MoCo. My kids used to beg to buy school lunch in our old school district. Neither one asks to buy lunch in their MCPS schools. They say it's gross looking.

At least it is hot versus taking something warm from home only to find it not so warm at lunch time.

And perfect temperature to grow foodborne bacteria.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:we just moved to MoCo. My kids used to beg to buy school lunch in our old school district. Neither one asks to buy lunch in their MCPS schools. They say it's gross looking.

At least it is hot versus taking something warm from home only to find it not so warm at lunch time.

So hot crap is better? They do make things called thermos and ice packs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:we just moved to MoCo. My kids used to beg to buy school lunch in our old school district. Neither one asks to buy lunch in their MCPS schools. They say it's gross looking.

At least it is hot versus taking something warm from home only to find it not so warm at lunch time.

And perfect temperature to grow foodborne bacteria.

Yes, how do one's kids survive with a homemade lunch that sits in their locker for 4 hours? I'd bet most home packed lunches against the sad microwave pizzas they serve with fries on the regular at MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:we just moved to MoCo. My kids used to beg to buy school lunch in our old school district. Neither one asks to buy lunch in their MCPS schools. They say it's gross looking.

At least it is hot versus taking something warm from home only to find it not so warm at lunch time.

So hot crap is better? They do make things called thermos and ice packs.

+1 Some posters are stuck in the 1990s tech. Thermoses are great and keep stuff steaming. Adults take them to work too.

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https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1227196.page

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Anonymous wrote:Can parents of Kindergarteners stop by school to deliver home made lunch around kid's lunch time instead of sending it with kid in the morning on bus?

You're joking, right?