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re: Spinoff Thread: What the Hell has Happened to School Lunches?
Posted on 9/30/15 at 11:52 am to LouisianaLady
Posted on 9/30/15 at 11:52 am to LouisianaLady
I liked the fake fish sticks AND the watery red beans and rice.
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Posted on 9/30/15 at 12:25 pm to LouisianaLady
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Exactly.
Even if you get caught lying about your income (say, you wrote that you make $200/week but you don't have a check stub proving it), the only punishment you get is your kid being switched to "paid" from now on.
I remember forgetting my money for my lunch (we had to pay for lunch daily) and they wouldn't give me a lunch and let me pay the next day, so they gave me peanut butter on stale as bread with a cup of water and sent me home with a note. This was at public school, 4th grade. Up to then I was at St. Lawrence (a Catholic School)
I just forgot my $1.25. Upset me thought that many people got free or $0.40 lunch and I had to eat peanut butter and bread.
One of those memories that stuck with me.
I think now you prepay the lunches.
This post was edited on 9/30/15 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 9/30/15 at 12:43 pm to Napoleon
Yeah, we pre-paid when I was a kid. Parents sent a check in each month. Too many kids lost money or didn't eat so they could keep the money 
Now, parents can pay online from home.
Now, parents can pay online from home.
This post was edited on 9/30/15 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 9/30/15 at 12:58 pm to LouisianaLady
If you have a negative balance here in MO you get a cheese sandwich (at least in kindergarten that's how it works).
And of all the things that piss me off about people taking advantage of the government for free stuff, free and reduced lunches for kids is pretty low on my list. Especially having seen what they get for free here.
We had actual cooks when I was a kid in the 80's who made food; I think now they're basically just "microwave technicians."
And of all the things that piss me off about people taking advantage of the government for free stuff, free and reduced lunches for kids is pretty low on my list. Especially having seen what they get for free here.
We had actual cooks when I was a kid in the 80's who made food; I think now they're basically just "microwave technicians."
Posted on 9/30/15 at 1:10 pm to NEMizzou
Every week
Monday red beans and corn bread
Tuesday spaghetti and meat balls with fresh baked bread
Wednesday baked chicken with fresh baked bread
Thursday jambalaya
Friday they would mix it up.
fricking loved it and never understood the people that would spend more to get a microwaved pizza.
Monday red beans and corn bread
Tuesday spaghetti and meat balls with fresh baked bread
Wednesday baked chicken with fresh baked bread
Thursday jambalaya
Friday they would mix it up.
fricking loved it and never understood the people that would spend more to get a microwaved pizza.
Posted on 9/30/15 at 1:33 pm to LouisianaLady
EBR has gone to free lunches across the board, no form needed. This is the second school year for this policy. They determined 90% of students had free or reduced lunch, so it wasn't worth paying the employee a wage to collect from 10% of the kids. I was not very happy when I found out I was in the 10% that was paying. Now, it is all free, for everyone.
Posted on 9/30/15 at 1:34 pm to LSUballs
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Monday- Popcorn shrimp, twice baked potato, Caesar salad, peaches
Tuesday- Country fried steak, Rice and gravy, green beans, carnival cookie
Wednesday- Chicken and dumplins, lima beans, biscuit, peach cobbler
Thursday- Orange chicken over rice, peas and carrots, salad, chocolate chip cookies
Friday- Fox's pizza (cheese or pepperoni), bread sticks, salad, Frozen lemonade
Fried food 3 out of 5 weekdays? That sounds pretty healthy.
Posted on 9/30/15 at 1:36 pm to SUB
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Fried food 3 out of 5 weekdays? That sounds pretty healthy.
And the other two days are pizza with a side of bread... and dumplings with a side of dumplings (biscuits) and starch and sugary dessert.
Granted, probably tastier than the steamed burgers and crap in public schools, but this is exactly why I was forced by Mom to bring my own lunch most of elementary.
Posted on 9/30/15 at 2:03 pm to SUB
frying's so good though and it's really easy to fry up a ton of food fast.
Posted on 9/30/15 at 2:11 pm to SUB
I count fried food two out of five. One of which is shrimp. But regardless it's better than the shite I remember eating when I was in school, which was my point. I'm sure cooking mass quantities of food for a bunch of little kids severely limits your menu's creativity. I would rather them have chicken fried steaks and rice n gravy over hot dogs or steamed soy bean burgers.
Posted on 9/30/15 at 2:17 pm to NEMizzou
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And of all the things that piss me off about people taking advantage of the government for free stuff, free and reduced lunches for kids is pretty low on my list.
I agree with this...
Posted on 9/30/15 at 2:22 pm to LouisianaLady
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Cheese pizza is a dairy, a grain, and a vegetable, for example.
Am I missing something? Where is the vegetable?
Posted on 9/30/15 at 2:25 pm to LSUballs
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I count fried food two out of five
Orange chicken is almost always fried.
Posted on 9/30/15 at 2:27 pm to Powerman
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Am I missing something? Where is the vegetable?
I think they count the tomato sauce
Posted on 9/30/15 at 2:27 pm to LSUfan20005
Even in the 80s it was bad.
I could get a hot lunch but most looked horrible and the side vegetables were really bad. I think Monday was the only one I got, the red beans. I think they had stew one day a week. Maybe a real bad spaghetti.
If you didn't want the hot lunch, then you had the really bad options. Cheeseburger and fries. I mean really low grade beef. The concession guy at a small town traveling carnival would pass on that beef.
The supreme bad option.
A giant plate of Nachos and cheese with the cheapest runniest worst queso on the planet...accompanied by fries. Yup. Nachos and cheese with fries.
So as much was we all want to blame Lady Obama, school lunch has always been a bit of a minefield.
I could get a hot lunch but most looked horrible and the side vegetables were really bad. I think Monday was the only one I got, the red beans. I think they had stew one day a week. Maybe a real bad spaghetti.
If you didn't want the hot lunch, then you had the really bad options. Cheeseburger and fries. I mean really low grade beef. The concession guy at a small town traveling carnival would pass on that beef.
The supreme bad option.
A giant plate of Nachos and cheese with the cheapest runniest worst queso on the planet...accompanied by fries. Yup. Nachos and cheese with fries.
So as much was we all want to blame Lady Obama, school lunch has always been a bit of a minefield.
Posted on 9/30/15 at 2:28 pm to LSUGrad00
If you want to be shocked go an elementary lunch room and watch the amount of food kids throw away..... It's obsurd. They have to take so much in the line, if not the lady checking makes them go back and get it.
The day I went the kids were being served apples and 9-10 kids threw away their apple without taking a nibble.
The day I went the kids were being served apples and 9-10 kids threw away their apple without taking a nibble.
Posted on 9/30/15 at 2:34 pm to SUB
Oh. Sounds gross
Posted on 9/30/15 at 2:43 pm to Powerman
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Am I missing something? Where is the vegetable?
Tomato sauce.
No, I'm not kidding.
Posted on 9/30/15 at 2:46 pm to CHEDBALLZ
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If you want to be shocked go an elementary lunch room and watch the amount of food kids throw away..... It's obsurd. They have to take so much in the line, if not the lady checking makes them go back and get it.
Yep. They are instructed to do that by the higher ups in the school because the only way schools get reimbursed for free/reduced lunches are by each free/reduced kid taking a "complete" meal.
With high school, it is actually required that you give them the option to refuse anything. If they refuse enough things to no longer have a "complete" meal, the school is now taking the hit for the cost of their meal because it is no longer reimbursable.
Posted on 9/30/15 at 3:04 pm to LouisianaLady
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But the way it is SUPPOSED to work, these are the income brackets for free and reduced lunches based on family size.
And if you are a foster child, a homeless/migrant/runaway, or on any approved assistance programs, you are auto-free.
I like how they have household size's of one. How is there a household of one that also needs school lunches? does that just assume the kid has no parents?
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