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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't find vegetables more expensive. Have you taken a look at how cheap beets are? Or cabbages? Why can't schools buy vegetables from wholesale producers and prepare those instead of getting the packaged garbage?[/quote]

Beets and cabbages??

Vegetables perish quickly. Schools would have to order them more often than frozen, which makes them more expansive. [/quote]

It just so happens that beets and cabbage are two vegetables with a long shelf life.

But that is what food in schools must be. Cooked on-site from fresh by on-aite personnel whose job is cooking, not reheating like a flight attendent. I'm so sorry that this wasn't the case for you or your children.  Many countries, rich and poor, manage to do that. That's how you feed children a nutrition and varied diet, and how you teach them to eat a nutritious and varied diet.[/quote]

Since many of us were raised, at school and at home, on a non-varied diet as children, be reassured that all is not lost.  Our kids are fine.  They'll grow up to be adults who eat a nutritious and varied diet.  [/quote]
Yeah, sorry it sounded a little condescending.  It's just that the adult PP I was replying to didn't know you can leave a whole cabbage on your counter longer than a bagged loaf of sandwich bread. If they'd eaten it at school more often, they'd buy it at the grocery store more often and feed it to their kids and eat it themselves and it wouldn't be perceived as such an incongruous food to procure, preserve, prepare, present to children. It's not a soufflé. [/quote]

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