Re: Nachos? robin

[Guest guest]

We have a snack bar at school that many children choose to use as their

lunch and the parents are suppling

the $$$In the snack bar we serve nachos and cheese,pizza hut pizza,bread

sticks stuffed with cheese,and every kind of bagged chip there is.One am for

breakfast we served hostess chocolate chip muffins.cocoa crispie cereal, and

chocolate milk.All of this was determined by the government as being healthy

You would be amazed and saddened by how many kids have breakfast at school

We even have prizes to encourage them to come.After all its a business.You

wonder why Americans have so many obese children?? Look in the classroom

Terrill

-- Nachos? robin

Are you kidding me? Nachos and canned cheese? Sorry, I guess I must

be outta touch with the school lunches nowadays (no kids and 11

years removed from high school). What the heck happened to American

Chop Suey with green beans?? Well, obviously don't have nachos

everyday (on those days a home cooked healthy meal is certainly the

way to go). But I still say, while they aren't going to help you a

whole lot, the school lunches aren't going to kill you either and

you can certainly eat the school lunches and still lose pounds. You

just have to work a little bit harder on your diet at home.

..... nachos ... What is this world coming to???? Good for personal

trainers I guess ...

Darren

[Guest guest]

I don't think the schools are to blame... they are an unfortunate

reflection of the reality of modern life... at the beginning of this

school year it was proposed to our staff that the cafeteria sell

Gatorade and some other stuff at recess... to meet teh needs of the

kids and to help the food services program of the district that is

in the red. After much discussion, we decided not to do it... for

reasons of seetting healthy examples, problems with mess, and stuff

being brought into the classroom. Good decision.

In December we got a memo saying the stuff would be sold in the

cafeteria at recesses starting now. It was no longer a choice but a

district directive because of the lack of funding in the schools...

we simply needed the money as a district. That's why many districts

sell soda, or Taco Bell, or whatever... we are a reflection of

changes in our society and financial environment. Costs have gone

nuts... teachers are no longer paid $20,000 a year and have benefits

and insurance and the works... special ed. costs a LOT for a very

few kids... the government mandates programs and expenses but

doesn't supply the funding... I'm not saying any of these things are

wrong, but it's the world we now live in. And education still gets

the biggest piece of the state budget... but it isn't enough.

So we try to make a buck selling what the kids want. I don't like

it, nor condone it, but that's the reason.

I just read an interesting article today in the New York Times about

calcium... as part of the article they mentioned schools selling

Coke or Pepsi for the revenue... but then went on to say that in

schools where they put up milk/chocolate milk vending machines, they

sold just as much (if there was no soda machine for competition). I

don't know where that data came from, and the profitability is less,

but it sure seems viable and would help our kids to get some of that

calcium they so badly need.

> You wonder why Americans have so many obese children?? Look in the

classroom

> Terrill

[Guest guest]

The school can the 4oz cartons of milk for next to nothing I think they

should offer 1 milk to each student at no charge.JMO,Terrill

-- Re: Nachos? robin

I don't think the schools are to blame... they are an unfortunate

reflection of the reality of modern life... at the beginning of this

school year it was proposed to our staff that the cafeteria sell

Gatorade and some other stuff at recess... to meet teh needs of the

kids and to help the food services program of the district that is

in the red. After much discussion, we decided not to do it... for

reasons of seetting healthy examples, problems with mess, and stuff

being brought into the classroom. Good decision.

In December we got a memo saying the stuff would be sold in the

cafeteria at recesses starting now. It was no longer a choice but a

district directive because of the lack of funding in the schools...

we simply needed the money as a district. That's why many districts

sell soda, or Taco Bell, or whatever... we are a reflection of

changes in our society and financial environment. Costs have gone

nuts... teachers are no longer paid $20,000 a year and have benefits

and insurance and the works... special ed. costs a LOT for a very

few kids... the government mandates programs and expenses but

doesn't supply the funding... I'm not saying any of these things are

wrong, but it's the world we now live in. And education still gets

the biggest piece of the state budget... but it isn't enough.

So we try to make a buck selling what the kids want. I don't like

it, nor condone it, but that's the reason.

I just read an interesting article today in the New York Times about

calcium... as part of the article they mentioned schools selling

Coke or Pepsi for the revenue... but then went on to say that in

schools where they put up milk/chocolate milk vending machines, they

sold just as much (if there was no soda machine for competition). I

don't know where that data came from, and the profitability is less,

but it sure seems viable and would help our kids to get some of that

calcium they so badly need.

> You wonder why Americans have so many obese children?? Look in the

classroom

> Terrill