National Take Your Parents To Lunch Day 2024 is on Tuesday, October 15, 2024: is today may 7 national teachers day?
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 is National Take Your Parents To Lunch Day 2024. Take Your Parents to Lunch Day… Take Your Parents to Lunch Day
Well, we call it NATIONAL TEACHERS APPRECIATION WEEK. Our school and administrators, parents, students were very, very nice to us. We all received Nikkon camera's with cases and lenses. Also, small cases that had popcorn, hand sanitizers, fruit, snacks, vegetable seeds for planting, coffees and teas from around the world. We received large umbrellas, dinner for two at very nice restaurants, tickets to comedy concerts, $100 shopping at local grocery stores, teacher-stuff; pancake breakfasts, lunch, dinner all week long and much more! I love my school and staff, parents and admin. Not just because of the gifts, but because we feel appreciated everyday!
Parents who have children in BIG CHAIN DAYCARES specifically or small daycares?
My kids go to a chain, but it is not national. It's called O2B Kids and they have five locations in N. Fla. It really is a phenomenal place, they set the bar very high.
They gut lunch and two snacks each day. Some of the snacks they get are: pretzels, animal crackers, graham crackers, cheese crackers, fresh fruit, carrot sticks...
Lunch consists of a main dish, a cooked vegetable and a fresh fruit. Some examples of the main dish are: Pot roast, roasted turkey breast, corn dogs, meatloaf, chicken and rice, spaghetti and meatballs. The vegetable and fruit rotate daily and include: carrots, green beans, peas, corn, apples, oranges, bananas, pears, grapes...
They get milk served with lunch. Juice or water with snacks (parents can specify it they don't want their child to have juice). If the child can't have cow's milk, parents are free to bring whatever beverage they want. It is stored in the classroom and served to the individual child. If the parent chooses to bring lunch for the child, that's fine too.
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What do your kids eat for lunch at school?
Although your kids may be eating well if they eat a balanced meal prepared in the school cafeteria or if you pack them a healthy lunch, it is increasingly likely that they are making poor choices and eating an unhealthy lunch, which may be one of the reasons that more kids are becoming overweight.
Many parents feel like they have a hard enough time working to get their kids to eat well at home and think they don't have any control over what they eat at school, but if you are aware of the choices they have, you may be able to influence what they eat. Or even better, influence what choices they have.
In most schools, competing with the relatively healthy choices the school cafeteria offers, are snack bars, a la carte programs that offer pizza and french fries, and vending machines with soda and snacks.
But do school cafeteria's really provide healthy lunches? If your child is among the '26 million children each school day' that eat the 'nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches' provided by the National School Lunch Program, you may think that they are eating healthy.
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But did you know that the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the Healthy School Lunch Campaign say that the 'menus served in school lunch programs are too rich in saturated fat and cholesterol and too low in fiber- and nutrient-rich fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes'?
Still, eating in the cafeteria is probably a better choice than some kids make who might bypass the cafeteria altogether and head straight to a vending machine, which might provide a lunch made up of a bag of chips and can of soda.
Or better yet, if you are not sure your school is really providing a nutritionally balanced lunch, pack your own and send it to school with your child. Leftovers, or a sandwich with lean luncheon meat or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, with some raw vegetables, a piece of fruit or other snack, plus some milk money, can make a fun and healthy lunch.
Be sure to keep your packed lunch safe though, by keeping everything clean when packing the lunch, keeping cold foods cold in an insulated lunch box, and hot foods hot in an insulated bottle stored in an insulated lunch box.
If you are having trouble planning your child's lunches, ask your kids for their input and let them help pack the lunch. You can also use the food pyramid as a guide and plan on the lunch providing about 1/3 of your child's daily vitamin, mineral, and calorie requirements.
And keep in mind that prepackaged lunches may be convenient, but they are often higher in fat, sugar and calories then meals that you might prepare yourself, and they are more expensive.
So, what do your kids eat for lunch at school?
Take our school lunch poll and see what other parents say.
