Anonymous
Post 11/26/2012 13:53     Subject: Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The issue is that this food needs to be cheap for the FARMS so yes we all suffer.


+1, public schools have turned into subsidized daycare


Maybe if we as a people/our government supported children in more substantial ways, schools would not need to step in and play these various roles in addition to the educational one they were set up for.

Federally, we spend $7 on programs for elderly people for every $1 spent on programs for children. (That disparity is boggling, at least to me.) The result of that has been an incredible reduction in the number of older people living in poverty since the 1970s — but 21 percent of the children in the United States live in families with incomes below the poverty level, the highest percentage since 1993 and the highest numbers (about 16.4 million) since 1962.

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2009/11/05%20spending%20children%20isaacs/1_how_much_isaacs.pdf
Anonymous
Post 11/26/2012 13:13     Subject: Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:The issue is that this food needs to be cheap for the FARMS so yes we all suffer.


+1, public schools have turned into subsidized daycare
Anonymous
Post 11/26/2012 11:35     Subject: Re:Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:When I was on the PTA (at a Potomac school), we got a request from a parent to bring in one of the school lunch services that delivers healthy lunches. I can't remember the name of the service but the thought was that it could be an option for those families interested in paying for it. Families that did not want to pay could continue to bring a lunch or buy the MCPS lunch. Principal said this was not allowed in MCPS.


Because Potomac kids are so speshul.

Thank goodness sanity prevails at some level in MCPS.
Anonymous
Post 11/26/2012 11:18     Subject: Re:Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not only is the food in MCPS not cooked from scratch, it does not even look like food. It's scary. My son's "broccoli" was a grey mass of overcooked broccoli stalks. I could not even venture to guess what the rest of his lunch was meant to be. Last time he ever ate cafeteria food.


what?

Do you have lunch with him on a daily basis? How else do you know this?

That observation was made during an open house. You think the school deliberately served crappy food on that particular day and on other days his lunches would be dramatically better?
Anonymous
Post 11/23/2012 17:21     Subject: Re:Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:This has to be a joke. No one is this stupid.



You obviously have never dealt with the privileged crowd in Potomac.
Anonymous
Post 11/23/2012 11:05     Subject: Re:Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
When I was on the PTA (at a Potomac school), we got a request from a parent to bring in one of the school lunch services that delivers healthy lunches. I can't remember the name of the service but the thought was that it could be an option for those families interested in paying for it. Families that did not want to pay could continue to bring a lunch or buy the MCPS lunch. Principal said this was not allowed in MCPS.
Anonymous
Post 11/23/2012 06:16     Subject: Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The issue is that this food needs to be cheap for the FARMS so yes we all suffer.


I feel so sorry that your children suffer in order for other kids to have a meal. Your poor little poopsies. Now I'm crying at my desk.



LOL. I work at a FARMS school and yes, the food is total crap. Be grateful that you have the choice to pack your own child's lunch.


In MCPS, food is food no matter where you're located.
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/foodserv/

We don't discriminate.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2012 19:58     Subject: Re:Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Yes!! Of course they do! They are packed by the nanny.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2012 19:52     Subject: Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:I was looking at the menu of a Potomac ES and was wondering if the food was prepared on-site. Any schools in Potomac cook from scratch? Any use mostly organic food? TIA!


What? Your snowflakes are too good for chicken nuggets?
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2012 19:51     Subject: Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The issue is that this food needs to be cheap for the FARMS so yes we all suffer.


I feel so sorry that your children suffer in order for other kids to have a meal. Your poor little poopsies. Now I'm crying at my desk.



LOL. I work at a FARMS school and yes, the food is total crap. Be grateful that you have the choice to pack your own child's lunch.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2012 16:26     Subject: Re:Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:Not only is the food in MCPS not cooked from scratch, it does not even look like food. It's scary. My son's "broccoli" was a grey mass of overcooked broccoli stalks. I could not even venture to guess what the rest of his lunch was meant to be. Last time he ever ate cafeteria food.


what?

Do you have lunch with him on a daily basis? How else do you know this?
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2012 15:20     Subject: Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:Hmmm... I wouldn't consider packing lunches for my children suffering.


My personal chef does! Can you believe she asked for a raise because I asked her to start packing macrobiotic lunches for my kids? The nerve!
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2012 15:12     Subject: Re:Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am surprised that people think that it is elitist or funny to want elementary schools to serve healthy food. There is a movement to provide fresh food in an affordable way in the DCPS. http://dcfoodforall.com/2010/01/ramping-up-farm-to-school-in-healthy-schools/ Michelle Obama has been behind healthy school lunches as well. Why is it crazy to ask if MOCO schools are cooking healthy fresh meals? I asked specifically about Potomac because I was looking into a town house there. With all the hype about the school district I am surprised that they only warm processed food. However, the point about wanting things to be fair and standardized across the county and keeping lunch prices at an affordable level is well taken. It would be unjust for only the schools in wealthier pockets to offer the more nutritious meals. Schools across the county could have healthier food at a reasonable cost if this issue was made a priority. Here are some good articles about issues with school lunch in DC: http://www.theslowcook.com/blog/tales-from-a-dc-school-kitchen/


Wanting healthy food is one thing... thinking Potomac schools have or should have special lunch services is another thing altogether.


They should have different menus for schools west of the 270. These kids have refined taste buds.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2012 15:11     Subject: Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Anonymous wrote:The issue is that this food needs to be cheap for the FARMS so yes we all suffer.


I feel so sorry that your children suffer in order for other kids to have a meal. Your poor little poopsies. Now I'm crying at my desk.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2012 15:05     Subject: Re:Do any public elementary schools in Potomac have organic or 100% made from scratch hot lunches?
Our elementary school (not in Potomac) has a salad bar and the food is fresh, but options are limited.