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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't know that individual schools have much say, I think meal planning is typically done at the district level (probably because they buy in bulk for the whole school system, rather than each school doing its own purchasing). The meals don't have to be that way, though. Our school's breakfasts, while not total models of health, are better than that. And chocolate milk isn't an option at breakfast.[/quote]
Thanks! OP here. So it sounds as if individual schools can at least decide to avoid the chocolate milk. I hope we can also make substitutions, even if it's just cereal and fruit, for some of the least nutitional options. The menu says schools offer alternatives (which I took to mean cereal) so maybe parents could collectively ask the principal to just offer those alternatives on days that the really high-sugar foods are offered.
The concept of a free breakfast is fine with me, although my kids will always get a breakfast at home first. It's the implementation - especially the high levels of sugar and low nutitional value in the foods that are given to the kids in their classrooms- that concern me. [/quote]

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