Food at Daycare Poll

[Thriftylady]

I belong to the food program also and so I serve nutritious meals according to that for lunch and snack. I don't serve breakfast most days. I do have to say that it kinda drives me nuts the talk about the school lunches. Yea, they're not the healthiest that's for sure, but they're actually better than what I had at school when I was that age and we didn't have the obesity factor like many have today going on. I just hate to see the schools blamed for that. It's 1 meal a day. Take a look at any fast food restaurant between 6-8 p.m. every single night of the week. There is the problem. Parents feel the need to have little Johnny and Susie involved in every sport, with practices every night and no time to make a regular meal at home anymore. Then add in the parents like I have right now where the 4 year old wants to get on a power trip and refuse to eat any meal they make, so they give him a lunchable for dinner or lucky charms (which he eats only the marshmellows). I don't recall my parents ever asking me if I liked something or making me something else if I didn't. Don't get me started on the "snacks" in the car that they insist on for the big 1 mile ride home. This, after we just had a snack. Sorry . pet peeve of mine haha Oh and let's cut the gym classes in schools due to funding. That's a good idea to keep obesity down.

It's two meals a day here. And I am not on the food program, but the schools here seem to serve stuff we could never get by with on the food program. I mean every day it is chicken nuggets, corn dogs, something highly processed. When I was on the food program we weren't allowed to feed that kind of food daily if I remember right. You are right though about the lack of PE these days. It was an important form of exercise when we were in school.

ETA: I have three kids that eat the breakfast I serve here and go to school and have another breakfast of sugary cereal, honey buns, sugary yogurt and chocolate milk. The parents have told the school that the kids shouldn't be getting a second breakfast but they still serve it. And the kids know they are not supposed to be getting it but since I don't offer "sweets" or processed foods, they do it anyway.