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[quote=Anonymous]Just for the record, my kid goes to the River School, where preschool tuition for full day is nearly $40k. Snacks are provided by the school. There's a sign-up for parents (or nannies) to bring in snacks, and perhaps once every week or two there's a special snack, but not all the time. Since a class is maybe 12 kids, it's not reasonable for parents to be supplying daily snacks, especially since preschoolers snack multiple times a day. And many of the parents have effectively infinite money, so it's not a cost thing per se.

Snacks seem to be Trader Joe's or Costco stuff in quantity when supplied by the school, plus things like Goldfish, Wheat Thins, Saltines, and other kid-friendly crackers. They'll do Pirate's Booty (the Trader Joe's cheetos cheese-puff equivalent), Veggie Stix, Belvita biscuits and other things that have a vague nod towards being healthy, but they'll also do animal crackers. Parent-supplied snacks are often less healthy than the default school snacks, although that might be more likely to contain ethnic snacks, and fresh fruit.

Some processed carbs are not going to be the end of the world. The kiddos get plenty of healthy food at breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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