Posted 5/5/2009 03:36 (#703359 - in reply to #702846) Subject: Re: Pretty soft!
SW Saskatchewan
Let me tell you how the lunches were when I went to school.
Uphill both ways!
Twelve years of peanut butter and Rogers golden syrup sandwiches(I was pretty fussy) with an apple. At the old country school we would have soup heated on the old Waterbury furnace during the winter.
Seriously, nutrition is a problem nowadays and it isn't because of a lack of money- my wife taught and over the course of her career it was painful how many lunches deteriorated from homemade sandwiches, a cookie and fruit to now it is often a fruit "drink" and a pizza pop.
The school tuck shop makes a fortune selling candybars and pop to the students- never seems to be a shortage of money for that.
Friday hamburger or other hot meals are a real bonus for the kids and should be an example for how they eat the rest of the week.
Years ago my aunt ran a school cafeteria in SD- had the opportunity to visit one day and as a youngster I ate my fill with the rest of the students - but back then it was not the nature of students or their parents to complain.
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