What about lunch?
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| Fri, 08-20-2010 - 3:02pm |
Today is the first day back to school here...yippee!! lol
At the beginning of last year, I sent a check to the lunchroom every week for the kids' lunch account, and told them how much they were allowed to spend. They were constantly going over the limit and I was getting emails that the account was overdrawn, and they also complained about the food (and my daughter was commonly spending $3.50 for a bagel and french fries for lunch), so I started buying things for them to make lunch and take it instead. They got bored with that, though, and I got tired of having to buy extra stuff each week at the store.
This year, I've decided to give them cash for lunch ($20/week each) because they can leave the school campus for lunch this year and there are some fast food places nearby. Or, they can use the money in the school lunchroom if they want. Of course they can take a sandwich if they prefer, but I'm not going to have the little bags of chips and stuff like that in the house anymore.
So I'm curious, what do your kids do for lunch, and how much do they spend?
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My DS is in 7th grade and literally NOBODY takes their lunch, so he eats whatever they are serving that day.
Mine both bring lunch from home as school lunch isn't to their liking.
Mine takes her lunch, not because she doesn't like the school food, but simply to save time. If you bring your lunch, there's no standing in line using up any of the 45 min lunch period. Our HS has a closed campus, thank goodness (I could see that being chaos).
She generally takes
Mine will take a lunch from home most of the time. We don't really do school lunches in Ontario. There is a cafeteria at DS' school but it's as spendy as McDonald's and not much healthier. He does chores for spending money so he can spend all of that on cafeteria lunches if he wants and bring a lunch from home when he's broke.
Also, his middle school allows the kids to leave school property during lunch hour, and the school is about a ten minute walk away from a Tim Horton's/Wendy's combo restaurant, so he may opt to spend his fun money there rather than at the school.
This year, for bag lunches, I'm going away from the crap I used to provide in the past. It'll be healthy options (sandwich/chili/soup/beans/stew, yogurt, string cheese, granola bars, fruit, veggies, ect) instead of the packages of processed fatty/sugary/salty snacks.
Both take lunches.
>>>>Microwaves.
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