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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Compare the Sidwell lunch menu to your local public and you have your answer. Add in food deserts, too.[/quote]

I work in a Title 1 school and see what they serve the kids for free breakfast, lunch, and snack. All microwaved processed foods like hot dogs, cheesy pretzels, chocolate milk, nachos with cheese dip, etc.[/quote]

This is what they offer to ALL kids at ALL public schools now.  [/quote]

The food is definitely terrible, but the parents contribute to make it even worse. I was giving my kids a small pack of goldfish and a banana for snack. Their friends are almost uniformly bringing skittles, pockies, gummy bears, and other bullsh*t so I'm constantly getting told how I'm such a strict parent. I pointed out that like half the kids in their school are fat and they rebut with "not in our class" (they are in the AAP class where somehow the kids eat garbage for snack and are still thin). My response is that their friends will have diabetes soon after college. It's so unfortunate what we are doing to our kids in America. I went to school in Germany as a kid and the food there is actually like a home-cooked meal with actual food groups compared to what we get in the US.[/quote]

When my kids were in K all the parents turn turns bringing afternoon snack for the week.
When it was my turn, I brought in grapes, rice crackers, strawberries, oranges, graham crackers, etc...
One of the kids told me that he didn't like my snacks because he expected skittles and doritos.  I was genuinely surprised that skittles are considered snacks.

Anyways, I'm not a strict parent as I have chocolate malt balls, hard candy, cookies and the like sitting on my countertop for the kids to grab whenever they want.  But I also always bring out fruits for dessert at the end of the day.  My kids would feel it strange if they didn't finish off the day with fruit.

Another weird thing I learned, one of my daughter's classmates brought lunch from home  - which was a Nutella sandwich.  This girl was on the heavy side by just little.  Makes you realize that she probably wouldn't be if she had a sandwich with, say, bacon and eggs. I watched her little sister also get heavier through the years.  The strange thing is the mother is small, skinny and always decked out in Lululemon.  I think she didn't know how to cook because she'd serve canned soups for lunch to the kids on weekends.  I get it if one is a working mom, but this woman didn't work AND she had a nanny for her 2 kids.
This is a school in NYC's UWS, in a most sought after G&T program.[/quote]

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