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In reply to the discussion: Stupid "food" products? Highly unhealthy ones? Need your help, please. [View all]Cairycat
(1,706 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 2, 2012, 11:44 AM - Edit history (2)
in the kids' lunches in my school every day. You forgot the sickly-sweet yogurt in tubes that kids can't open by themselves. I'm just a lunch lady, so therefore am stupid in the eyes of many DUers, but I don't quite see how a lunch consisting of a Lunchable, or a bologna sandwich, packet of fruit snacks (which are really candy made with fruit juice), one of the above-mentioned yogurt tubes, and an individual pack of Pringles - is a healthier lunch than what I'll be serving today: whole-grain breadsticks with mozzerella inside, marinara sauce, a tossed salad, box of raisins, and a small (4 oz) cup of orange sherbet. Is it perfect? No. But I don't see how you can say a bunch of processed crap is soooo much better than the lunch that has to meet guidelines for nutrients. Are some kids' lunches more nutritious than what I serve? Yes, a few, but they are in the minority, even in my middle class district.