I find the school lunch program to be overpriced for what it is. Often school lunches give you child too much freedom over their diet. A child of preteen, or teen years should not be plagued with choices they are not mature enough to make or understand. The simple fact is that most school lunch plans allow children to eat off the standard menu. Even though this menu has a seemingly balanced meal plan, the portions are out whack. My children almost always cam home hungry. But that is not the big problem. The big problem are the choice you child has if they don’t pick a menu option. Many, schools offer an a la carte line of foods. This often includes choices like pizza, donuts, milkshakes, burgers, chips and ice cream. While some of these items are OK for your body once in a while they should not be entrees. Further, children who really do not know any better shouldn’t be put in a position to make a choice that forms their eating habits without supervision.
Sep 222011
