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[quote=Anonymous]Since I was a child school lunch has been something that was not very healthy or good tasting. How can it be when the cost and the scale of food preparation doesn't leave the school system many options. Have you tried to prepare a healthy meal with no kitchen for a lot of people on a limited budget and can only serve foods made in advance? Its not easy is it? So I don't have bone to pick with the schools. They are doing the best they can. About the only ways to chance things is if we are willing topay more money for lunches, get parents involved to help out with preparation and we come up with what it is we really NEED the kids to eat. There will be very little agreement among parents in how this will be best served.

As a child my parents packed our lunch unless there was something on the menu we wanted to eat. My son has a lot of food intolerances and the amount of dairy or soy in the menu selections means there is very little he can eat. Added to that he has been yelled at by the lunch staff that he HAS to select milk instead of juice when he has explicitly told them he can't drink milk, or soy alternative. So we pack his lunch and I'm ok with this - we have an option that works best for our family. I can provide him with what I want him to have and I don't have to worry about whether the food he is eating will impact his intolerance. Cost wise it makes more sense for me to provide my child with his own packed lunch as well. [/quote]

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