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Our elementary lunch is $2.25, our middle school lunch is $3.00, and I have no idea how much high school lunch would be. My kids all bring cold lunch, and it is more expensive than buying, but since our hot lunches are mostly pre-packaged heated-up kinds of things, I'd prefer they'd bring lunch from home anyway. Mostly we do sandwiches, soy milk or juice boxes, fruit and a treat (sweet or chips, etc.). Pretty boring, but they don't seem to care!
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My DD - in tenth grade this year! - never brings from home. And at her HS, they have different 'stations' (Mexican, salad bar, Italian, etc), so there is no set price. It just depends on whatever they get. Sometimes, it can be $5-6 per day!!
Sounds like what I pay for lunch at the cafeteria at work - which is why I started brining Ramen soup cups and bought a hot pot to boil water... ah - lunch for $.50!!!
My kids will have hot lunch. It's part of tuition!!
We're a small school, 600 students in 3yr old to 12th grade, and the only way to get a hot lunch program was to GUARANTEE them that they would be serving all 600 kids each day.
It cost me $3.25 a day for Lauren, and $3.75 a day for Kathryn. (all at once - for the whole year! - talk about a whammy!)
I don't mind too much - they get a lot to eat, and much more balanced than when I sent cold lunch (always a Peanut butter and Honey sandwich, a fruit cup, pudding or jello, some fresh fruit if we had it, some chips or crackers and a water bottle)
I will be taking my cold lunch to school. At least 3/4 of the time, if not more.
kayla informed me today that she would be bringing her lunch to school this year...except on hamburger days or pizza days....
i rpefer she bring her lunch....not because of the money but because she doesnt have to wait in line for ever..... last year she would barely have 15 minutes to eat and that really aggrivated me
I used to go by the lunch menu, and would bring lunch on days that they were having something I didn't like. Then in High School, I would go through the "snack" line, where they had pizza, fries, chicken strips, etc. every day and get fries and a Snapple. Nutritious.
My nephews eat the hot lunch unless they request a packed lunch. My nieces do the opposite - bring a cold lunch unless they request the hot one.
When DD was in school, she almost always did hot lunch at school. For only one child, it was more expensive to buy the things for lunches every day. Plus she got a variety of foods. I had lunch with her when she was in elementary school, and the food was really good!
However, if you have more kids, it could get pricey fast doing hot lunch for all of your kids. In that case, you could probably buy things in bulk for making lunches substantially cheaper. I guess you would also have to factor in what your kids will eat. Some kids only want lunches from home because they don't like what the school serves. Good luck!
My oldest does mostly hot with a few cold days per month thrown in. He is allergic to nuts and the school staff was so great about giving him a package of graham cracker cookies as a substitute for the dessert. He's going to a new school this year (4-6 building) so I hope they continue. He loves the spaghetti, beef/barley soup, and pizza they serve at school. Our lunches for students are at $2.00.
As a teacher, I take my lunch as I count Weight Watcher points.
Our school lunches are $1.65, including milk. The kids do have choice of salad (some actually do choose that, they make a heck of a salad in our district) or hot entree's... and usually the choice of a cold sandwich too. It's not a bad choice offered; DD finally got tired of it, tho, by the end of the year last year. We buy 'natural' (no nitrite/nitrate) sandwich meats, so it's usually cheaper for her to buy lunch.
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I give DS $5 each day for lunch, but he only uses about 1/2 and saves the rest. I'm not sure on the cost of a lunch at the high school, but they charge $2.60 for a lunch at the junior high school where i teach. Entree, side, salad/fruit/juice, milk. Students are required to get an item from each category, even if it is just 1 piece of lettuce or fruit salad. Fries are 75 cents extra, but have to be purchased with a lunch. I've been told by my students not to eat the salad because kids spit in it!!! EWWWWW!
I always had some money in the school account in case the kids wanted a hot lunch, but they usually preferred to take a sack lunch from home. Since I've worked full time since they were small they started making their own at an early age. When they hit high school they had an open campus for lunch (and places to eat right across the street from the school) so I started giving them a budget for lunch. They could take a lunch from home and save the $, eat in the cafeteria and the budget would cover it, or go out and then they were on their own if it cost more. They usually took their lunch several days a week so they could afford to eat out once or twice a week. It was a good lesson in making your money last. They also learned how to eat cheaply when they went out so they could do it more often.
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Have any of you actually eaten lunch at school with your kids? The reason I ask, is that you'd be surprised at the amount of food that goes to waste on the "hot lunch" plates. So many of the kids just pick at the lunch, drink the milk, and eat the dessert/fruit. It was another reason I've kept sending a lunch box every day. I want to be sure that my kids have a full tummy to learn on.
kayla informed me today that she would be bringing her lunch to school this year...except on hamburger days or pizza days....
i rpefer she bring her lunch....not because of the money but because she doesnt have to wait in line for ever..... last year she would barely have 15 minutes to eat and that really aggrivated me
Yep....time is the big factor here too...............By the time she had lined up to buy lunch there was not enough time to eat it. So she started bring a packed lunch.
DD Graduated this year Yey!! No more school stuff for me!!!
Have any of you actually eaten lunch at school with your kids? The reason I ask, is that you'd be surprised at the amount of food that goes to waste on the "hot lunch" plates. So many of the kids just pick at the lunch, drink the milk, and eat the dessert/fruit. It was another reason I've kept sending a lunch box every day. I want to be sure that my kids have a full tummy to learn on.
I work in the cafeteria at dd's school and I too am amazed at how much gets thrown away everyday. On pizza and hamburger days plates are cleaned but most other days over half the food gets thrown out. While I think the cafeteria serves great food (I eat there every day) they do serve some things that kids just dont like. They have over the last few years started to off 2 entrees and the kids get a choice which is good. Like on any day that they serve pasta (spaghetti, lasangana) they also serve chicken sandwiches.
Our lunches were $1.25 last year and will go up this year but not sure if it will be $1.75 or $2.00 yet which I think is a big jump. My girls usually alternate and with half the year cold lunches and half the year hot lunches. This year they have both asked to buy some days and take others so we will see how this goes. One perk of me working there is I can make something hot (soup, raviolis etc) and put it in the thermos and bring it with me for younger dd since she eats right after I get there so its still hot.
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- never brings from home. And at her HS, they have different 'stations' (Mexican, salad bar, Italian, etc), so there is no set price. It just depends on whatever they get. Sometimes, it can be $5-6 per day!! 
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