I think this might have been mentioned but those who have kids in school
do they buy or bring lunch
if you buy what kind of food do they have?

We mostly due cold lunch(home lunch),only because its too costly to buy,and its nothing special or nothing like we got when we went to school.
It`s the Typical chicken nuggets,pizza,rib sandwhich etc..they do get a fruit or veg,and milk ,juice bar or cookie.
When I went we had things like.. turkey,salad,veggies,milk,desert
ham,salad,veg,fruit,milk ,desert
more of a complete meal.

Most of the time Brantley brings his lunch. One or two times a week he will buy his based on the menu. Since we pay full price it gets expensive real quick. It is fun to see exactly what he is eating since I get to eat lunch with him every day this year.

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It is fun to see exactly what he is eating since I get to eat lunch with him every day this year

Thats so nice!
Yeah,it is too expensive,especially if there are multiple kids eating it..lol

Well since we get free lunches I have my kids eat at school. I will say though that I look at the menu and think lunches have gone down hill big time. Sample days are stuffed breadsticks/hamburger/chef salad and you get two choices of either carrot coins, pineapple tidbits or fruit juice. they do pretzels with cheese , bologna and cheese, pancake on a stick stuff like that. We never got those as choices lol. Its a little better this year then last, every day there was something that I shook my head about being on there. Some suggestions for home lunches though, I saw them somewhere. Wraps, the traditional lunch meat wrap, or pizza wrap which is the wrap with pizza sauce, pepperoni and cheese, peanut butter with sliced bananas and raisins in a wrap.

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I will say though that I look at the menu and think lunches have gone down hill big time.

I know! You would think with everyone on a healthy eating kick that the kids would have better choices.Ours are the exact same,We probably have the same catering company/food service.

do you guys use aramark? Thats who does ours.

For the most part mine take their lunches, for one thing, they are picky,so I know I am packing things that they like, they eat slow, so it speeds up the process by them not having to stand in line to wait on a tray lunch.But the biggest reason is with 2 kids in school, it's way too expensive to let them buy it every day. $20 a week really adds up that's $80 a month, and I can feed them way cheaper than that
I will let them look at the menu,and maybebuy lunch a few times here and there but that's it.
They have things like nuggets, sub sandwiches, pizza rolls,chicken strips.

We do hot lunch though sometimes I wonder if that's the best choice as they seem to be so unhealthy a good amount of the time. It can be expensive since we pay full price but our schedules are so busy that the saved time (shopping, packing, whatever) really helps and since right now we are only paying for her, we buy it. Home lunch in our house has actually become a treat...kind of sad since I like to be strict about nutrition but I had to let this one go.

I leave it up to the kids....the cafeteria is the only thing at our school I probably don't complain about...our head of the cafeteria can cook and the kids get big home cooked lunches...for like $3...that's cheaper than Mc'd's and worth what they get...

Some samples of days my kids bought are

Chicken Noodle Soup
Grilled Cheese
Crackers
Fruit

Lasagna
Garden Salad
Garlic Bread
fruit

Baked Chicken
Seasoned Rice
Green Beans
Roll
Apple Pie

I even like their lunch....the lasagna is awesome!

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do you guys use aramark?

seven out of our 8 schools in the district use preferred meal systems this year. 1 school in the district uses farm to table lunch program.

Chelle-Those are the kind of meals we need in our schools.I think our lunch program should be revamped . LOL

we just do hot lunch here

Brianna buys lunch .

Tay does hot lunch. She has reduced, so its cheap enough. She gets about the same things as Chelle's school. They are on a serious health kick here, although some of it is questionable!! lol But with her in junior high, they can also choose the cart outside which has less healthier options.

Both Matt and Hannah get lunch at school. They have various stuff including salads. Some days they like to take their lunch. Expecially Hannah

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it's way too expensive to let them buy it every day. $20 a week reall

Wow I will take that 20 a week, lol. Since both girls are in regualar school together this year if I let them both buy it would cost me, almost 30 a week.

So they both take home lunches. Once in awhile I will let them buy lunch, but not often

All kids in our parish get free breakfast its a government program. Then Quinn gets free lunch so he eats at school for lunch. If he wants to eat here for breakfast its a bowl of cereal most days.

The last 2 years at the school he was at his grandmother was the cafiteria maneger so they ate well . I know how my ex mil cooked and for the most part its good.

My Kids get free lunch from school, But on Ocassion they will bring lunch from home if they don't like what the School is having