jp_jellyroll t1_ivk3gi5 wrote on November 8, 2022 at 3:36 PM

Reply to comment by UpCoconut in Rant: MA healthcare is among the best in the country, but insurance is wicked expensive by nebirah

Schools aren't the ones that need convincing. If you want better school lunches, you need to convince all of your local townspeople to pay more taxes so the public schools can buy better food. Best of luck...

I think most people, myself included, would rather not pay the taxes and instead brown-bag it for their kids. Still far healthier & fresher than anything you'd get in a large-scale cafeteria.

WhiplashMotorbreath t1_ivkb0cv wrote on November 8, 2022 at 4:25 PM

Meh, go back to allowing kids to brown bag it.

Those with issues with nuts, etc make a corner of the lunch room for them.

Tax payers are not going to want to pay more in taxes to fund a lunch program with better food as they know it'll never happen for 1, and the funds just wasted. And most of the tax base don't have children in the schools. Most of the problem is forcing kids to take food and then it just hitting the trash can because the child doesn't like that meal.

The waste in lunchrooms is ASTOUNDING.

Kids might be more open to healthier options if schools teached honestly. and took that outdated for the last 50 years food triangle and trashed it. It might have been a good guild when most worked high labor jobs, but that was 50 years ago.

They don't teach balance, they teach, candy bad, fruit good. soda bad, fruit juice good. When many times this is 100% wrong.

UpCoconut t1_ivmlxgd wrote on November 9, 2022 at 1:39 AM

In my district, it IS the schools that need convincing. This isn't an issue of budget or taxes. During COVID, they switched to a 'no-touch' cafeteria kitchen where everything is pre-packaged centrally by an outsourced vendor instead of being prepared by the local staff. The costs are the same, but the quality has gone way down... some private company is making bank and delivering garbage.