RE: High School Opens Vegetarian Lunch Line, where's ours?

[Guest guest]

I read about this story on msn, and was happy to hear the school had a

vegetarian club! (which prompted the meals)

 

I pack my 10 yr olds lunch every day, but recently we had friends in town

from a lil town in west Texas. Their school doesn't have a cafeteria, so we

went to my daughter's school twice for the experience. My daughter's

classmates finished their lunch in 5/6 minutes and ran out to play. I have

read that our school employs a " healthy start " lunch program, and that the

meals here were more nutritious then others across the country. oh, boy!

Since we ALWAYS pack, I've never looked at the lunch food or schedule. Well,

Tuesday we had nachos and cheese (yup nacho chips and liquid cheese) with

peas and carrot, um, cubes and pears. I would not consider that a healthy

meal. I had planned on getting us all " chef " salads on Wednesday, but they

only make 10 a day and they were gone. (their chef salad includes lettuce,

carrot slivers, and some terrible shredded cheese stuff) We all got pre-made

pb & j and no one took more than one bite. I have eaten pb & j made by my 4 yr

old (it's her specialty) and even though I was hungry, I had to be satisfied

with my choc. milk, lima beans (are they suppose to be gray?) and peaches.

No wonder my daughter brings home so much of her lunch, she's trying to keep

up with her classmates who can barely eat their lunches.

 

At the recent holiday performance I brought a tofurky and trimmings for us

to eat while everyone else ate turkey. Due to food rules, it had to go to

the kitchen and be distributed from there. I saw our PTA VP first, he told

me to find the president, " he doesn't do tofurky " The president sighed and

took it. Ran into the principal, and he thought we were joking, then gave us

a strange look when he realized we were " actual vegetarians " Sorry to be

such a bother, guys.

 

Think my daughter will have her work cut out for her if she decides to start

a veggie group; Georgia might be ready for it, but NC isn't

 

 

Jodi (owned by a 10, 4 and 3 year old)

 

 

On

Behalf Of mudpuddle

Monday, January 09, 2006 3:53 PM

 

High School Opens Vegetarian Lunch Line

 

 

http://news./s/ap/20060109/ap_on_he_me/fit_veggie_lunch_lines

 

I hope this link comes through ok. There was a story about veggie lunches

being offered in an Atlanta high school. Hopefully this trend will continue

to spread!

 

Melodese

 

 

 

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