Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll stick with the FDA.

Why??

You're kidding, right? The FDA's record and expertise is far better than the state of California.

Anonymous wrote:I'll stick with the FDA.

Why??

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does the ES lunch line offer a salad bar where students can pick what they want, or is the salad portion prepackaged/already on an individual tray?

Hahahaha! No, there's no salad bar. Maybe some carrot sticks or a pre packed salad with a bit of dressing. But you can google MCPS meals and see the menus.

HoCo shcolls have salad bars so it is possible.

I'll stick with the FDA.

On Thursday, CA became the first in the country to pass a bill (California School Food Safety Act) that if signed into law, would forbid the use of the ingredients found in some popular cereals, ice creams, drinks, candy, ice pops, cheese-flavored chips, jellies and more.

This Bill prohibits a school district, county superintendent of schools or charter school with grades kindergarten through 12th from offering foods or beverages containing red dye No. 40, yellow dyes Nos. 5 and 6, blue dyes Nos. 1 and 2, and green dye No. 3.

The bill stems from concerns these dyes would harm children’s ability to learn, as they have been linked to behavioral difficulties and decreased attention among children, according to a 2021 study by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.

Environment Working Group said that though “new science is available,” the US Food and Drug Administration’s current regulations of the dyes in food is based on research that’s 35 to 70 years old.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How's middle school lunch? Food and the lunch lines.

Teacher here. School food is gross. What is healthy, e.g., apples and bananas, goes uneaten. Lots of processed foods, fats, and sugar.

Your kid can throw out the fruit you send with them too

Also, fruit is just sugar anyway. Fats are essential, fruit is not. Processed stuff is still terrible.

Mmm, nutritious bacon!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How's middle school lunch? Food and the lunch lines.

Teacher here. School food is gross. What is healthy, e.g., apples and bananas, goes uneaten. Lots of processed foods, fats, and sugar.

Your kid can throw out the fruit you send with them too

Also, fruit is just sugar anyway. Fats are essential, fruit is not. Processed stuff is still terrible.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How's middle school lunch? Food and the lunch lines.

Teacher here. School food is gross. What is healthy, e.g., apples and bananas, goes uneaten. Lots of processed foods, fats, and sugar.

Your kid can throw out the fruit you send with them too

You're supposed to eat the school garbage
food in solidarity with poor kids.

Did your Kinder or a student in any grade eat today? Did they throw food out, brought it back home?

Anonymous wrote:How's middle school lunch? Food and the lunch lines.

Teacher here. School food is gross. What is healthy, e.g., apples and bananas, goes uneaten. Lots of processed foods, fats, and sugar.

Our ES also uses a cart/wagon for each class. Things will get much less squished if they use a reusable lunch box, but the occasional bag isn't the end of the world. You'll need to put a drink in there, which is usually a reusable water bottle so that means most kids use a lunch box.

Anonymous wrote:Brown bag or reusable lunch bag? How do Kinders manage their lunch bags to get it back to classroom after lunch, or do paraeducators collect them from lunch room and transport it to classroom? Forgot to ask.

Our school does cart for each classroom.

Anonymous wrote:Brown bag or reusable lunch bag? How do Kinders manage their lunch bags to get it back to classroom after lunch, or do paraeducators collect them from lunch room and transport it to classroom? Forgot to ask.

Our ES had a lunch cart which traveled with the class from the classroom to lunch room.

Brown bag or reusable lunch bag? How do Kinders manage their lunch bags to get it back to classroom after lunch, or do paraeducators collect them from lunch room and transport it to classroom? Forgot to ask.