Lunch Anyone?????

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Registered: 04-26-2007
Lunch Anyone?????
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Wed, 10-17-2007 - 1:15pm

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Registered: 11-13-2004
Wed, 10-17-2007 - 3:17pm

<<<<.......DH says that "I am being stupid over $15.00. " >>>>


ROFL... He doesn't beat around the bush does he?


An interesting assortment of costs being posted here. My DD's High school of 4300 has a food court that rivals what you would see in the mall. I need to deposit $250 every 3 months in her lunch account. It works out to about $3 -$5 per day. DD still needs to bring healthy snacks in her backpack to get through the day. It doesn't appear to me that your cost is out of line.


Yet... 40 years ago

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Registered: 04-26-2007
Wed, 10-17-2007 - 3:46pm
Genius reply. Thank you for the laugh!

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Registered: 07-22-2003
Wed, 10-17-2007 - 4:00pm

My kids both buy lunch daily, the lunches are $1.60 and I also give them $1.00/day, because neither of them drinks milk, so they get a drink from the vending machine. Usually iced tea or lemonade.

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Registered: 07-22-2003
Wed, 10-17-2007 - 4:16pm

Daddioe, I went to public school 40 yrs ago, I was 11 at that time so I was still in the elementary school, which was K-8th. I paid $.35 for a lunch. With that we got a good amount of food, but didn't have any choice. The menu came out each week and told what the hot lunch was each day.

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Registered: 04-30-2000
Wed, 10-17-2007 - 4:27pm
I don't think $15
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Registered: 03-06-2006
Wed, 10-17-2007 - 4:35pm

My kids surely fall outside the norm here, because they have always brought a lunch from home to school.

 

 

 

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Registered: 11-28-1999
Wed, 10-17-2007 - 4:50pm
I went to Catholic school from grades 1-8.
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Registered: 02-14-2000
Wed, 10-17-2007 - 5:36pm
I went to public school and I remember that in grade school we had to eat at least 3 bites of EVERYTHING!
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Registered: 04-15-2004
Wed, 10-17-2007 - 5:57pm
Hi,
Does your school district offer any free or reduced price lunches?? Ours do throughout the state, I think it's through USDA. Anyway, if the cost is hitting your budget, maybe that's a way to go.
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Registered: 12-04-2003
Wed, 10-17-2007 - 9:14pm

My DS, a junior, ALWAYS brings his lunch. I would LOVE for him to buy a lunch some days. We tried having him make the lunch but it was stressful on all of us. He's a kid who does his own laundry and can make his own dinner so we just compromised and I make his lunch every day. And I will miss it when he goes off to college!

Not sure why he and his friends prefer bringing lunch - my DD always bought.

We are fortunate that we can afford to have him buy or bring and I'm not sure it would make that much difference financially in any case. My DS is an athlete, so I typically pack a sandwich, bagel, string cheese, fruit, and protein bar, which must add up to at least $2. and then he comes home and eats two bowls of cereal and fruit . . .