What are you packing for school lunches?

[Anonymous]

Quinoa with chopped cooked chicken, spinach and caramelized onion dressed with sour cream and garlic paste, coconut pudding (just chia seeds and coconut milk), berries

Breakfast taco (wheat tortilla, egg, ham slice, Orange bell pepper, tomato, romaine, salsa), Apple

Peanut butter and honey on corn tortilla, banana, cucumber

Shake (almond milk, banana, carrot, pumpkin, cashews), rice crackers with hummus

[Anonymous]

Mini meatloaf (oatmeal, egg, very little hamburger, green pepper/carrot/beans/oil), Orange

Chicken apple (or grape) egg salad (has celery, fennel, cucumber and sour cream in it)

Stew, melon

Tuna salad sandwich, salad with fruit and nut

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not American, and I think typical American lunches are absolutely disgusting. The sandwich bread is THE WORST.

We're lebanese...hommus, stuffed grape leaves, pickled vegetables, lentils and rice in a thermos, tabouli, various dried meats and cheeses, yogurt salad, leftover grilled chicken/lamb, olives, hard boiled eggs...basically mezze. I just empty the fridge of random stuff we have.

Observation: if a DCUM post starts with "As a non-American..." or "I'm not American, and..." it will be b*tchy and judgmental approximately 100% of the time.

Umm....I am not American either but your disdain for the culture and people who welcomed you in this country is beyond pathetic. Also, for the record Lebanese cuisine is nothing to write home about, I come from a very evolved cuisine and we think you guys don't know who to cook.

[Anonymous]

Overall, I am really surprised by how little some of these kids are eating. Not judging at all, just wondering if they get a smaller appetite in elem? My preschoolers eat way more than a sandwich and goldfish, at every single meal. Plus snacks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am going to assume that the sandwich posters are just not posting. My kids eat turkey (not processed) and cheese or PBJ (100% peanuts/100% fruit) on good quality bread..some fruit or veggies and something else. That works for our family.

My daughter is starting K in the fall. Is there no restriction on peanut butter in the elementary schools? There is at her preschool and I just assumed it would carry into elementary. I'll be happy if it doesn't.

Allergic kids sit at different table. Everybody wins!

Except for the allergic kids who are segregated and have to sit with random kids rather than their friends. I truly don't understand why people are so attached to their nut butters that they get so up in arms about the idea of being a nut free scho (like a lot of DCPS elementary schools are). We use for our lunch sunflower butter and golden pea butter with jelly. Kids love it and don't care that do t have peanut butter.

One problem is that all of the sunbutters and pea butters have added sugar. I can get the nut butters (peanut, cashew, etc) with just nuts and nothing else added. (Of course, I don't get up in arms. Our FCPS elementary is not "nut-free.")

Because it is actually more dangerous to claim nut-free because most people will eventually bring in items that have form of nuts or processed with nuts and your allergic kid would be sitting right next to them. Do you think every parent in a school of 500 should or would adamantly check every label or remember if anything they made might have a form of nuts in it - all for a handful of kids who could easily sit a nut-free table?