School lunches

I like to see kids eating healthy, but at the same time, it makes me a little sad.

When I see my nieces reach for carrot sticks and hummus I keep my mouth shut and remember the cookie moms that used to send recycled department store dress boxes filled with cookies and cupcakes to our class functions.

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It's all for the best. 🤗
 
The long day care centre behind our church has a small community garden and the cherry tomatoes are very abundant in Summer. The children are involved in planting and watering and have been introduced to fresh vegetables as part of the lunch offerings.

It is great education for city children, not just about different foods, but also about where food in the shops actually comes from. They see the whole life cycle from seed or seeding, to the flowering and the fruiting and development of edible leaves . They also see the insects that visit the garden and get involved in feeding the worms in the worm farm.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I like to see kids eating healthy, but at the same time, it makes me a little sad.

When I see my nieces reach for carrot sticks and hummus I keep my mouth shut and remember the cookie moms that used to send recycled department store dress boxes filled with cookies and cupcakes to our class functions.

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It's all for the best. 🤗
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One photo doesn't mean that that is all that takes place in long day care centres.
Sydney is very multicultural and the children inevitably become acquainted with the celebratory food of the families of other children from diverse backgrounds.
 
We don’t do school lunches, it's left up to the parent to provide. Pre-school children centres (aged 1 to 5) have been accused of being too strict on parents and won’t allow anything in their lunch box that children love like chips or cakes etc. Once they move into primary school (kindergarten through to year 6), the most popular lunch sandwich apparently is Vegemite and cheese. ( yuk, sounds revolting). Peanut butter is not allowed now because of the nut allergy and Vegemite is usually substituted.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
Wow! Are they feeding rabbits or children? I doubt the kids in the states would be happy with that for lunch.
Worth a try but all it would take is one smuggled in peanut butter and jelly sandwich and there would be bedlam.
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That's what I was thinking.. show me a child who'd be happy with carrot sticks and a tomato, and it'd be a very unusual child!!! or, just wait and see how they rebel when they're old enough to choose their own foods.
 
I always brought my lunch in high school but once a week they had pizza bagels and my mom gave me lunch money for that. They were really good and filling and a big piece of chocolate pie topped it off. It was hard to stay awake for my afternoon classes. Between the carbs and the sugar I was ready for a long nap.
Once in awhile my classes showed movies pertaining to the subject and the dark room provided the perfect setting for my nap.
 
Most teachers will relate to you how the healthy foods school cafeterias give to children wind up in the garbage can, with few exceptions. If the kids ate such foods at home, they’d be accustomed to them, and it would be another matter…
 

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