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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS lunch menu looks a lot healthier than what I grew up eating for school lunch (2003 HS grad)!  I remember fries being a vegetable choice daily.  No fresh veggies -- everything was canned.  Also, funnel cakes were offered every day.[/quote]

It may look healthier on paper, but most of the days it tastes really gross.  My kids like most vegetables, are adventurous eaters and in theory like the items listed on the menu, but most of the days options just taste terrible.  There are about four days a month that they want to eat the lunches, and one of those days is breakfast for lunch.  The portions are also very tiny so there is not enough food or calories for kids maybe 3rd grade and up, and definitely not enough food for teen/preteen boys who require 1000 more calories than the average adult woman.

Imagine taking small bland portions of meat and vegetables, mass cooking them with no skill, eliminating all salt, pepper and other seasoning, and trying to feed it to your kid and keeping the portions small enough that the calories fit the federal requirements.  I have tried some of the lunches and it is gross.  The kids throw a lot of it out.

I imagine fcps is losing money on these new lunches, and I also think that the cafeteria ladies are worried about job cuts.  A few months ago the cafeteria ladies were talking with the older kids.  They were telling them that they wanted to cook food that they would love to eat, and asked the kids what they would want to see in their lunches. My kid said that the general consensus from the 6th graders was to bring the old food back, give bigger portions, and to season it a little so that it wouldn't taste gross.  They weren't asking for Cheetos, or Hohos, just edible, tasty, healthy food.[/quote]

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