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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel really strongly that they should stop serving so much junk food to kids in the cafeteria. Given the choice between buying a healthy lunch or buying doritos and ice cream, what do you think kids will choose? They are too young to be responsible for these decisions. (Decisions which, over time, can have a profound impact on their health. Eating crap for lunch also makes them less able to pay attention in afternoon lessons) In my view this woman doesn't sound like a nut, but someone concerned with public health. [/quote]

My child's elementary school sells ice cream and pita chips one day a week.   She is given free reign to choose and buy whatever she wants, my child buys the ice cream every once in a while.
  
People that yipe about the organic healthy lunch options have not been in elementary or primary school lunch rooms.  The lunch period is overcrowded and rushed.  There is one person that is shoveling out the prepackaged lunches as fast as possible and most kids don't even get their lunches until it is 15 minutes into the 30 minute lunch period.  The overwhelming majority of the kids getting the lunches are FARMS kids.  If you look at what is packed in lunchboxes and the cafeteria lunch, nutritionally it is not that different.  If anything the cafeteria lunch is at least heavier on protein which growing children need.  My kids refuse to eat the cafeteria lunch but I don't think it's all that bad, there are only going to be so many choices available for prepackaged food, and it is just too expensive to run a lunch program like we had when I was a kid.

If you read the original post you can see where the original poster was more concerned about the judgmental nature and how she saw this person treat her daughter.  I also feel like people in this area are a lot of talk without really thinking through about the consequences of the actions.  Kids are going to rebel against having every thing they eat monitored.

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