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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My impression is that anyone who refers to perfectly good (not great, but fine) food as "gross" and "nasty" is a picky eater, and you are passing that attitude on to your kids.

And those who brag about their kids begging them to send "broccoli for dessert" and "an assortment of veggies" is just a pretentious snob.

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Have you actually seen the DCPS lunches??  I'm the poster who called it "gross cafeteria food".  
I agree, the menus sound FANTASTIC.  But the reality is quite different.  I volunteered in the classroom at our WOTP school at least 20 times last year.  It simply does not live up to the promise on the menu. 
18 times out of 20 the fruit was an orange.  Not what is advertised.  
Really, I challenge you to drop in at lunch at school and see what is served.
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Yes, I have.  I really, really have been at school and have seen the lunches.  They were perfectly acceptable.  Clearly we have different standards for the quality of chicken hot dogs.  And you know what?  An orange is a fruit and it's healthy.  My kid doesn't care if she gets the same fruit everyday.  I do not cater to her every desire at home and I don't expect the school cafeteria to either.

We get it.  You think the food is "nasty."  Please just feed your child his/her 100% organic whole grain free range food and leave the rest of us alone.

Reason #78 I am glad my kid doesn't go to Janney.[/quote]

Janney mom here--the problem with the oranges day in and day out isn't that they're not healthy--it's that 4-7 year olds (and beyond) can't peel oranges and if even if they can, they can't under the time constraints of school lunch.   I noticed the oranges primarily because they were all thrown out. [/quote]

I will give you 4 year old, but if your 5-7 yr old can't peel his own orange (sn asides), that's a problem.[/quote]

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