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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like the lunches used to be better. I work for MCPS and would occasionally buy a student lunch when I forgot mine, and it wasn't too bad, with some days being better then others but definitely edible. With the free food the past 2 years, the quality has taken a nose dive. My 5 year old was initially excited about getting lunch but a month or two in she insisted I pack her lunch. Also, the supply chain left the menu very unreliable. There was typically only 1 choice and many times it was "managers choice". The breakfast was super junky. My DD loved getting the brownies on Fridays and the cinnamon rolls.  [/quote]

I will get better when they can charge again.  Free lunches were limited to the gov subsidy.  MCPS spent more before,[/quote]

Doubt it. My older kid started kindergarten in fall of 2019, so before lunches were free, and the menu was appalling. The "healthy" options were things like vanilla yogurt with granola - basically a sugar bomb even if you call it yogurt. There were occasional days when they seemed to offer a turkey sandwich or something basic like that, but mostly it was sugary yogurts, cinnamon buns, pancakes - yes, for lunch - or highly processed like hot dog, pizza, chicken fingers. I let him buy pizza once or twice a month and sent a lunch the rest of the time. This past year there were food issues so even when he wanted to buy the pizza, they were out sometimes, so we sent lunch the entire year except on maybe one occasion. Plan to do the same this year with him and my second kid who is entering kindergarten.

I am not completely anti-sugar, my kids get a small dessert every night and they eat plenty of crap at after care, but I am not willing to compound that by having them eat sugar for lunches too. Or breakfast - the main reason we adjusted our schedules to avoid before care is because all the kids do there is eat yet another sugar-laden meal. If you can't afford to send lunch then it is what it is, or if your kid is guaranteed to pick something reasonable like apple and peanut butter from all the more sugary choices, then it's more doable. If you have a choice, though, you should give serious thought to packing lunch at least half the week.[/quote]

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