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Anonymous wrote:Gawd, the lunches are going to be awful and the kids can't even drink the lead tainted water. When is DCPS going to get it together?

I grew up in Fairfax county and the school lunches were disgusting. School lunches are always bad, don't act like it's an urban problem.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I figured it wouldn't take long for this thread to evolve into a judgmental argument.

We are a family that cares a lot about healthy food. I cook a lot, and we avoid sugar, refined flour, and cheap oils (we do believe in eating healthy fats, even butter from quality sources).

However, after thinking all this through, my son will eat the school lunch (he won't be there for breakfast or aftercare). This is a school that is not generally popular with our demographic, and I don't want him to be the one white boy in the class with a lunch box because he is too good to eat what everybody else eats (nor would I want him to be part of the segregated table that one PP described). I do want him to blend in as well as possible while he is there (which won't be past PK). I don't think one possibly sub-optimal meal per weekday for a couple of years is going to harm him or spoil is habits, and eating with the group might help him try things he wouldn't at home and become less picky.

We can reevaluate this once we see how it goes, but I just can't see that excluding him from the family-style hot lunch will be a good idea. I do hope that the Sodexo contract won't result in a decline in quality.

Thanks all for the responses.

You sounds really even headed with a great attitude!

I think everyone is being a bit hysterical about how "crappy" the food is. Not sure what this year and the new contract will bring, but it wasn't like they were serving pop tarts and cheetos last year for lunch. Did it look gourmet and super appetizing? Not really. But there was always plenty of fruit, veggies, whole grains, etc. If you end up having a problem with the Sodexo menu how about trying to work to improve it?

My gosh, what an original idea! Work to improve it! Maybe that's why I was at the meeting demanding that copies of this hastily-entered contract be released to the public? I can't give Sodexo the benefit of the doubt under these conditions. If we get a better contract, it's not like we can retroactively improve the food kids eat this year. Sorry but it matters now.

Are you going to be satisfied with anything short of quinoa and kale bowls?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I figured it wouldn't take long for this thread to evolve into a judgmental argument.

We are a family that cares a lot about healthy food. I cook a lot, and we avoid sugar, refined flour, and cheap oils (we do believe in eating healthy fats, even butter from quality sources).

However, after thinking all this through, my son will eat the school lunch (he won't be there for breakfast or aftercare). This is a school that is not generally popular with our demographic, and I don't want him to be the one white boy in the class with a lunch box because he is too good to eat what everybody else eats (nor would I want him to be part of the segregated table that one PP described). I do want him to blend in as well as possible while he is there (which won't be past PK). I don't think one possibly sub-optimal meal per weekday for a couple of years is going to harm him or spoil is habits, and eating with the group might help him try things he wouldn't at home and become less picky.

We can reevaluate this once we see how it goes, but I just can't see that excluding him from the family-style hot lunch will be a good idea. I do hope that the Sodexo contract won't result in a decline in quality.

Thanks all for the responses.

You sounds really even headed with a great attitude!

I think everyone is being a bit hysterical about how "crappy" the food is. Not sure what this year and the new contract will bring, but it wasn't like they were serving pop tarts and cheetos last year for lunch. Did it look gourmet and super appetizing? Not really. But there was always plenty of fruit, veggies, whole grains, etc. If you end up having a problem with the Sodexo menu how about trying to work to improve it?

My gosh, what an original idea! Work to improve it! Maybe that's why I was at the meeting demanding that copies of this hastily-entered contract be released to the public? I can't give Sodexo the benefit of the doubt under these conditions. If we get a better contract, it's not like we can retroactively improve the food kids eat this year. Sorry but it matters now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I figured it wouldn't take long for this thread to evolve into a judgmental argument.

We are a family that cares a lot about healthy food. I cook a lot, and we avoid sugar, refined flour, and cheap oils (we do believe in eating healthy fats, even butter from quality sources).

However, after thinking all this through, my son will eat the school lunch (he won't be there for breakfast or aftercare). This is a school that is not generally popular with our demographic, and I don't want him to be the one white boy in the class with a lunch box because he is too good to eat what everybody else eats (nor would I want him to be part of the segregated table that one PP described). I do want him to blend in as well as possible while he is there (which won't be past PK). I don't think one possibly sub-optimal meal per weekday for a couple of years is going to harm him or spoil is habits, and eating with the group might help him try things he wouldn't at home and become less picky.

We can reevaluate this once we see how it goes, but I just can't see that excluding him from the family-style hot lunch will be a good idea. I do hope that the Sodexo contract won't result in a decline in quality.

Thanks all for the responses.

You sounds really even headed with a great attitude!

I think everyone is being a bit hysterical about how "crappy" the food is. Not sure what this year and the new contract will bring, but it wasn't like they were serving pop tarts and cheetos last year for lunch. Did it look gourmet and super appetizing? Not really. But there was always plenty of fruit, veggies, whole grains, etc. If you end up having a problem with the Sodexo menu how about trying to work to improve it?

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I figured it wouldn't take long for this thread to evolve into a judgmental argument.

We are a family that cares a lot about healthy food. I cook a lot, and we avoid sugar, refined flour, and cheap oils (we do believe in eating healthy fats, even butter from quality sources).

However, after thinking all this through, my son will eat the school lunch (he won't be there for breakfast or aftercare). This is a school that is not generally popular with our demographic, and I don't want him to be the one white boy in the class with a lunch box because he is too good to eat what everybody else eats (nor would I want him to be part of the segregated table that one PP described). I do want him to blend in as well as possible while he is there (which won't be past PK). I don't think one possibly sub-optimal meal per weekday for a couple of years is going to harm him or spoil is habits, and eating with the group might help him try things he wouldn't at home and become less picky.

We can reevaluate this once we see how it goes, but I just can't see that excluding him from the family-style hot lunch will be a good idea. I do hope that the Sodexo contract won't result in a decline in quality.

Thanks all for the responses.

Anonymous wrote:Gawd, the lunches are going to be awful and the kids can't even drink the lead tainted water. When is DCPS going to get it together?