Are your schools doing anything beyond pizza? Once a month, once a week?

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Here’s the elementary school lunch menu for October

Generally repeats every 3-4 weeks.

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Nachos is a food group and a complete meal

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I assume your school has a cafeteria then? Not the case for my school. It seems to be a struggle to get even one hot lunch going. At this point, we might not have anything set up until mid November.

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The district has one central kitchen, and each school serves from steam trays and insulated cabinets.

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That’s an interesting idea. Must be more efficient than individual kitchens in schools.

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Where is this (generally, obviously), that your kid has the choice of meat substitute any time there’s a meat main? Both my kids are vegetarian and of there’s a meat main, they are getting sunbutter sandwiches.

This is in MA, though, where we have universal school lunches.

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California, universal school lunch. Suburban district with ~1200 students across 3 elementary schools.

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Now I want to move to a California suburb. However, I don’t think any exist in my price range that aren’t stuck in the 1800s.

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I hesitate to share this, because it’s a little depressing, funny, but depressing.

John Oliver on school lunches (NSFW):

https://youtu.be/-YypArYDcjA

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Aren’t all meals hot? I’m confused.

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Sorry this is a bit late, but for example, a bologna sandwich is a cold lunch, whereas pasta is a hot lunch. Not all meals are hot.

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I see, thank you. Where I am school lunches are 3 -course hot meals, period, and I never questionned it. There’d be public outcries and newspapers articles if they gave kids a bologna sandwich.

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