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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of you saying it's too expensive- you should see the lovely meals my preschoolers eat in preschool compared to the dog food given to my elementary schooler. And all the preschoolers eat it and enjoy it.

Obviously the preschoolers meals are mass produced, but can you imagine the outrage if my 2 year old was served a honey bun? I think the 2 year old teachers would have a heart attack if they had to put up with the behavior of 2 year olds who all ate a honey bun. They'd be bouncing off the walls. My 2nd grader routinely eats honey buns for breakfast, donuts, etc. In our school everyone gets a free lunch, so everyone is served "breakfast" as they walk through the door in the morning. Even the juice has got to go. My preschoolers are never served juice or chocolate milk. They get milk or water, just like parents serve at home.[/quote]

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Breakfast is the worst. Why don’t they just serve[b] cheerios and white milk[/b]??[/quote]

This is one literally one of the breakfast options that students (at least in the ES) have in FCPS.[/quote]

I think though people are saying they should *just* have cheerios and white milk and fruit and not tempt kids with muffins (aka cupcakes) and poptarts and chocolate milk and french toast sticks etc.  I kind of agree with that.   [/quote]

Yes. Exactly. Why in the world is a sugar fest an option to pick when there is a healthy and good tasting option that is also cheap to offer them. [/quote]

Because parents will complain.  There are a large number of parents that feed their kids this stuff, but would rather school did it for free.  Also add in, there are very few kids actually without any food/starving at home.

Schools serve the sugar crap because that is what kids (and parents) want and what they typically eat.  It gets taken and eaten by most of the kids.  Then the school admins can pat themselves on the back because they are feeding kids. If they moved to heathy, simple options only (white milk, cheerios, bananas, raisins) it would mostly get passed over.  Because the kids aren’t truly hungry, they just want sugar and will eat it if offered. We have an obesity epidemic; especially among the low income population. [/quote]

So let them complain! JFC. Some of us complain to MCPS about all the sugar laden breakfasts and we are just ignored.  They could take the same approach who complain that their kids no longer get cinnamon buns for free. [/quote]

But the difference is the cinnamon buns get eaten.  If they served white milk and plain cherrios, it would be largely passed over by most kids. So much so that the schools would eventually come to the conclusion it wasn’t needed and they would drop serving breakfast.  Then parents would start to complain (again) and they would bring back sugar crap [/quote]

If kids don’t eat it then they are not actually hungry. It has a bland taste - they can offer 1 sugar packet with it to help sweeten slightly - and is not a weird texture. So if kids are hungry they would consume it. [/quote]

Ok pp is talking about Cheerios but there’s lots of other cereals. My kids love raisin bran. Even Honey Nut Cheerios is better than the chocolate muffins they get served for breakfast. None of my kids have chocolate or strawberry milk until they started school. No daycare would ever serve that stuff!

Why are daycares so much better at feeding kids?[/quote]

Because daycares are a business and the public school system isn't worried about losing customers.  Sad but true.[/quote]

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