Food at School Holiday Parties?

[NicoleScraps]

Are your kids allowed to have food/treats at their school parties? like Christmas or Valentine's day?
Ours are not. They used to allow it up until a few years ago. First they stopped allowing any homemade items, and you know what? I am down with that. There are some people that I personally WOULD NOT want to touch any food that I am going to eat.
Now, they aren't allowed to have anything not healthy. My kids had their parties today and they were allowed cheese cubes, carrots sticks, and low fat hot cocoa. No cookies, no reindeer cupcakes, no pretzels, na-da!!
The school board's reasoning is that childhood obesity is such a problem that they banned all junk food from the schools. I understand this and am okay with it. The parties were a huge junk food festivals where each kid ended up with a whole paper plate covered with junk. I can totally see putting a limit on this. Maybe allowing one or two treats, not 20 different treats. But banning it altogether, yeah, I have a huge problem with this.....
Because our school serves the equivalent of fast food as their hot lunches. Nothing is actually cooked. It is all processed heat and serve type foods. No fresh fruits or veggies, no real meat, just canned and processed garbage. I pack my kids lunch every day. They hate school lunch. But some kids eat school lunch every day. They have no choice. I would never take my kids to McDonalds every single day. Can you imagine? McDonalds is probably MORE healthy that the food that they serve at my kids school. It is disgusting.
So they can serve garbage for lunch, but a couple of cookies or a cupcake twice a year at a holiday party is a problem?
Isn't it more important to eat healthy on a daily basis? Then you wouldn't have to worry about a sweet treat every now and then.
I don't understand it.

Little vent over.
So what's it like in your school system?

[Tamster]

Wow..When you put it like that i can see your point! well we are aloud to have sweets in fact last week we had a Pizza Party and They also decorated cookies and pretzels and they had store bought cupcakes and a few other "junk" items. Yesterday she came home with a gingerbread house they made. I think every now and again is fine. I would be a little upset also if that were our school also. As you said, its a special occasion its not like they are allowing them to have it daily as there a.m snack and such. hmmmmmm CRAZY!

ohhh.. And yea.. I'm with you! I won't eat anything of anyones unless i know what their house looks like... Sorry just me! You never know with some people!

[Murtasma]

The schools aren't making kids fat it's parents who make their children fat.

When I go to Walmart (usually just to look at those less fortunate than me) and I see an obese child (which breaks my heart) they are more often than not accompanied by an even larger adult with a shopping cart full of garbage.

Pulling soda machines and the occasional treat out of children's hands will do nothing to reduce the obesity rates in children.

Why aren't there more classes offered in school on how to cook good healthy meals (which taste way better than fast food and processed garbage), time management (you need time to cook) and managing money and requiring students to stay active (sorry gym class docent cut it)?

It's much too easy to fall into the lazy habit of eating out often, grabbing fast food or eating frozen dinners because it's incredibly convenient. Then sitting in front of the couch watching TV all day never burring a single calorie you consumed in the day. It's no wonder why the whole world is getting fat. In the last 20 years the prevalence of media entertainment in our homes has made the idea of going outside and burning calories less and less appealing to adults and children.

My advice is to not care what your school is doing and instead put your time and energy into teaching your children how to eat properly and stay active.

The education system is broken and there's little hope it will be fixed. You can't expect the government to raise your children for you. Hell they can't even balance a frickin checkbook.

That means you will probably have to stop watching so much television (especially when your kids are around) and instead go outside and have a good time. Besides who knows how much longer you will be able to go outside with global warming and pollution.

[kirbinster]

Our society is so screwed up. In our schools you can't bring peanut butter in your kids lunch because another kid somewhere in the school might have a reaction. When did things change so that we worry about the minority over the majority. That kid is going to have to learn to live in the real world where the school can no longer protect them.

[Jim Bryant]

You're no fun! So much for the electric koolaid acid test, eh?

[kirbinster]

Originally Posted by Jim Bryant

...So much for the electric koolaid acid test, eh?

OK, some splaining is needed here, I'm not sure I get the comment?

[Jim Bryant]

dumping acid into the koolaid to get high, you know acid, and not the bad kind. You know Jimi hendrix expoerience and so forth. Yellow Sunshine, pupple haze, mircodot, orange sunshine. Where have you been all you life?

[Jonbar18]

Originally Posted by Murtasma

Pulling soda machines and the occasional treat out of children's hands will do nothing to reduce the obesity rates in children.

That'll probably make them fatter because they'll just do the opposite of whatever you say.
Funny story...
I'm planning a trip or Cuba, so (half ) jokingly i said to my dad "I'm gonna get so wasted!"
Dad: "ok"
Me: "oh...well... ya..."

[Raoul Isidro]

Blame game.
Lawyer$ need to put a finger to blame in litigation for such things as: Obesity, illness, trauma, wardrobe malfunction, outgrown clothes sizes, etc.... you name it, they will make a case out of it. Insurance companies will only underwrite the school if certain conditions are met. It has come to a point where schools will have to cater the food from a single qualified food service provider, so there is only one source of blame for insurance purposes.

[NicoleScraps]

Originally Posted by Murtasma

My advice is to not care what your school is doing and instead put your time and energy into teaching your children how to eat properly and stay active.

The education system is broken and there's little hope it will be fixed. You can't expect the government to raise your children for you. Hell they can't even balance a frickin checkbook.

That means you will probably have to stop watching so much television (especially when your kids are around) and instead go outside and have a good time. Besides who knows how much longer you will be able to go outside with global warming and pollution.

I do all of these things. Once our kids reach middle school age, we take them out of public school for homeschooling. We have one at home right now, next year, it will be two. Part of their "curriculum" (made up by me) is meal planning, budgeting and cooking, basically everything that goes into making a list, shopping and preparing meals for a family.