Where can I buy the chocolate milk bags/pouches that they give at elementary schools?
WHAT THE HELL YOU GOT BAGS WE GOT CARTONS
What do Americans put in their childrens packed lunches? And our school lunches there really as bad?
Okay so I was watching Jamie Oliver's American Revolution and children who looked about 5/6 were being sent to school with just doughnuts, packets of sweets (candy), crisps (potato chips) and literally nothing else. One girl who was about 5 just had a big bag of skittles or M&M's and nothing else to eat. And then for a drink everybody was just drinking Chocolate milk. In my primary school (kinda the same as elementary school in England for kids 3-11) the school only provided us with water at lunch if we wanted a drink and orange and blackcurrant squash at christmas and even then it was quite water downed squash. Even now schools in the UK are banned from selling sugary drinks and water is free and you can buy juice and the only fizzy drink we sell is appletiser (fizzy 100% apply juice) but even then that contains no sugar. In England children usually get a Sandwich (Jam,ham or cheese or something like that), a packet of crisps/Chocolate bar (sometimes both), a piece of fruit and a carton of orange juice or squash made from home. I'm 16 and this is what my friends usually eat in there packed lunches. And then school lunches in high school didn't really get much better it was like chips everyday (in the show) for some kids. My school only serves them on Friday (schools can only sell high calorie foods once a week in the UK) and foods such as pizza have to be homemade. And hot meals are usually something like pasta or chicken the rest of the week and freshly made sandwiches the rest of the week for cold foods and paninis. Do parents generally send their kids to school with just junk food? I'm generally curious because I'm not sure if they were just picking out the children with the bad lunch's for good TV or children in America generally send their kids to school with that kind of food. And are school lunches sold in schools really as bad as Jamie Oliver's show makes out as well?
What’s going on with a 5-year-old that begins incessantly saying they’re starving or thirsty the minute you pick them up from school or an activity?
As someone who not only has children in the school systems BUT ALSO works for the same school district I’ll tell you the biggest issue that I have seen and fought against… along with other possibilities.The issue? Timing in combination with ass-hat administration.Most elementary schools do lunch and a lunch recess AND in that order. When I was a kid, we had much more time to eat and even more time for recess after. However, now it has lessened to a huge degree. My kids started complaining that they weren’t having enough time to eat lunch. I then found out that school was only allowing them allegedly 12 minutes at the lunch table, having done recess prior. And that is 12 minutes if the line isn’t taking too long, and everything gets perfectly timed.This means that if they don’t finish in the 12 minutes that they can’t keep eating during their recess time like I used to. So I complained. Then I found out from my daughter of days where she’d get in the cafeteria, get her tray and before she could sit down her class was excused and she was not allowed to eat. Why? Because the NTA’s had no clue what class had come in first or last and were just excusing on a whim.Then I found out that certain NTA’s were actually actively giving entire classes less time to eat as punishments for one or two kids acting up.This kind of issue is widespread. When I challenged this, I was ignored until I made lawsuit threats and started working with the nutrition office for my son’s special meals (which also told the school off when I’d offhandedly mentioned it).On top of this, some of the portions for meals included (and still do) combinations of things kids generally aren’t going to eat such as: red bell peppers and jicama with the fruit being cherry tomatoes. I don’t mind offering the kids things other than broccoli or carrots, but you don’t put them both on the tray as the only thing other than pasta with meat sauce which literally looks like dog vomit that has dried out a bit. Nothing in that meal is appetizing.Plus, the corn dog bites sound good, hell at the school food fair they taste good too, all crunchy and tasty… But when cooked, frozen, shipped, reheated in wrapped containers which hold in moister… Guess what? That changes into soggy disgustingness.