Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?

[Anonymous]

If this is true, we need to organize up and petition. Could you please give the name of the daycare?

Anonymous wrote:Brings back memories of my daughters daycare where the parent board brought in a chef and organic menu and then proceeded to cut teachers vacation, sick time and raises.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this is true, we need to organize up and petition. Could you please give the name of the daycare?

Anonymous wrote:Brings back memories of my daughters daycare where the parent board brought in a chef and organic menu and then proceeded to cut teachers vacation, sick time and raises.

sounds great where can we find this daycare.

[Anonymous]

I am surprised that people think that it is elitist or funny to want elementary schools to serve healthy food. There is a movement to provide fresh food in an affordable way in the DCPS. http://dcfoodforall.com/2010/01/ramping-up-farm-to-school-in-healthy-schools/ Michelle Obama has been behind healthy school lunches as well. Why is it crazy to ask if MOCO schools are cooking healthy fresh meals? I asked specifically about Potomac because I was looking into a town house there. With all the hype about the school district I am surprised that they only warm processed food. However, the point about wanting things to be fair and standardized across the county and keeping lunch prices at an affordable level is well taken. It would be unjust for only the schools in wealthier pockets to offer the more nutritious meals. Schools across the county could have healthier food at a reasonable cost if this issue was made a priority. Here are some good articles about issues with school lunch in DC: http://www.theslowcook.com/blog/tales-from-a-dc-school-kitchen/

[Anonymous]

Food is MCPS is absolute crap. I agree it shouldn't be, and that kids deserve better. But given that most adults in this country eat crap, I wouldn't hold my breath on this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this is true, we need to organize up and petition. Could you please give the name of the daycare?

Anonymous wrote:Brings back memories of my daughters daycare where the parent board brought in a chef and organic menu and then proceeded to cut teachers vacation, sick time and raises.

sounds great where can we find this daycare.

NIH on campus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised that people think that it is elitist or funny to want elementary schools to serve healthy food. There is a movement to provide fresh food in an affordable way in the DCPS. http://dcfoodforall.com/2010/01/ramping-up-farm-to-school-in-healthy-schools/ Michelle Obama has been behind healthy school lunches as well. Why is it crazy to ask if MOCO schools are cooking healthy fresh meals? I asked specifically about Potomac because I was looking into a town house there. With all the hype about the school district I am surprised that they only warm processed food. However, the point about wanting things to be fair and standardized across the county and keeping lunch prices at an affordable level is well taken. It would be unjust for only the schools in wealthier pockets to offer the more nutritious meals. Schools across the county could have healthier food at a reasonable cost if this issue was made a priority. Here are some good articles about issues with school lunch in DC: http://www.theslowcook.com/blog/tales-from-a-dc-school-kitchen/

Wanting healthy food is one thing... thinking Potomac schools have or should have special lunch services is another thing altogether.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has to be a joke. No one is this stupid.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Some individual schools supplement what's offered by MCPS with salad bars etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was looking at the menu of a Potomac ES and was wondering if the food was prepared on-site. Any schools in Potomac cook from scratch? Any use mostly organic food? TIA!

yes

while in the "other" parts of the county they serve Cheetos and Coke . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lunches should be catered at Potomac Elem.

You forgot to add "nut and gluten-free" and in some cases, kosher and vegan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The issue is that this food needs to be cheap for the FARMS so yes we all suffer.

OK, Ann Romney - enough! Go find a rocket ship to Kolob.

[Anonymous]

Not only is the food in MCPS not cooked from scratch, it does not even look like food. It's scary. My son's "broccoli" was a grey mass of overcooked broccoli stalks. I could not even venture to guess what the rest of his lunch was meant to be. Last time he ever ate cafeteria food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this is true, we need to organize up and petition. Could you please give the name of the daycare?

Anonymous wrote:Brings back memories of my daughters daycare where the parent board brought in a chef and organic menu and then proceeded to cut teachers vacation, sick time and raises.

sounds great where can we find this daycare.

You think it's good that they cut raises for teachers? Daycares don't pay well already, and if teachers are underpaid and unhappy there will be a high turnover rate and the center quality will suffer.

It's great that they offer organic foods for the kids, but they need to budget it out of the existing budget not cut teacher pay or raises to do so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised that people think that it is elitist or funny to want elementary schools to serve healthy food. There is a movement to provide fresh food in an affordable way in the DCPS. http://dcfoodforall.com/2010/01/ramping-up-farm-to-school-in-healthy-schools/ Michelle Obama has been behind healthy school lunches as well. Why is it crazy to ask if MOCO schools are cooking healthy fresh meals? I asked specifically about Potomac because I was looking into a town house there. With all the hype about the school district I am surprised that they only warm processed food. However, the point about wanting things to be fair and standardized across the county and keeping lunch prices at an affordable level is well taken. It would be unjust for only the schools in wealthier pockets to offer the more nutritious meals. Schools across the county could have healthier food at a reasonable cost if this issue was made a priority. Here are some good articles about issues with school lunch in DC: http://www.theslowcook.com/blog/tales-from-a-dc-school-kitchen/

Except that's not what you asked, nitwit. You asked:

I was looking at the menu of a Potomac ES and was wondering if the food was prepared on-site. Any schools in Potomac cook from scratch? Any use mostly organic food? TIA!

What does the food being prepared on site, from scratch, have to do with health? And if you equate organic with automatically eating healthy, you better educate yourself some more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has to be a joke. No one is this stupid.

+1.

+2

Unless it is one of those horrible "unintellectual SAHMs" that we heard about in that other thread.