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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are not watching out for this you should be.

On a daily basis I have kids bringing for snack (not dessert):

[b]Packaged muffins, cookies, brownies,[/b] Doritos, cheetos. And the quantities they are bringing are astounding too.

This is terrible brain food. It makes them sleepy, unfocused and it’s terrible for their health too![/quote]

At our school they hand these out for breakfast- well not "cookies" but sweet muffins and pastries.  Plus juice or chocolate milk.  I agree it's terrible for the reasons you state but this is far from just a problem of poor parenting.[/quote]

Agreed, I'm FAR from a strict healthy eating parent - my kids eat stuff like cereal, zucchini bread, etc for breakfast - but the school menu is completely ridiculous. Stuff like a sleeve of 6 mini chocolate donuts for breakfast, the "packaged muffins" OP hates so much, cinnamon rolls....[/quote]

I don’t understand this at all. It’s like parents are using something objectively bad that the school district is doing to say, “See!! The school does it so it must be totally ok for me to do it to!” You can’t be serious. I have several low income students who qualify for free school meals and their parents would never let them eat that junk. They are some of my healthiest students.

Meanwhile Mr. I-missed-school-for-2–different-Disney-Cruises-this-year wouldn’t know a non-processed food if it hit him on the head. [/quote]

I work in a high farms Title I school and the kids are bringing a lot of processed foods. A lot of takis. A lot of candy. I wish they would have healthier options— their mouths are full of cavities (and yes I know because their families can’t afford the white fillings, they have the amalgam fillings that which are obvious) and they have low focus and memory retention.

I agree the school food isn’t great either. [/quote]

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