Re: School Lunches

--- On Wed, 7/25/12, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3@ckt.net> wrote:

>
> But both grade school and High School, we paid for our
> lunches.  I don't know why anybody would want to save
> money on them, other than maybe our parents.

For your education, Sibyl...

School lunches in the US (and in the UK, btw) are on extremely tight budgets and sometimes run at a loss. What parents pay often doesn't cover everything.

How do I know this?

1. 29 years of teaching experience and working in both American and British state (public in US) schools.
2. Watching Jamie Oliver on TV (that's a joke, but there's some seriousness to it as one of his challenges was creating nutricious and delicious food for many students on a very, very low budget)
3. Having a mother who worked in the '60s and into the early '70s as head cook at a high school cafeteria (in an urban school with 2400 students for three grades at the time) -- and then, later in the '70s and into the '80s, as bookkeeper for the school district dietician.

And, I can attest that in both rural and urban school districts (having attended the latter and worked in both), some foods are made from scratch. However, ketchup usually isn't.

Ellen, having just walked home from the railway station in the heat and humidity. We are having summer just in time for the Olympics.