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[RobbiD]

Our elementary school lunches are $1.65 and the middle school is $1.75. They serve pretty much the same food, since they share a cafetorium and food service. They got a new food service manager and I think she has made the menu much more palatable than it used to be. Younger DD will only eat the chicken nuggets and cinnamon french toast, so she only buys 3-4 times a month. Older DD likes the "breakfast for lunch" stuff and the mexican choices so she buys about 6 times a month. Otherwise they bring their lunch. There is also a "snack bar" that serves stuff that I wish they wouldn't but my kids don't generally have money unless they're buying a full lunch.

Side note: when younger DD came home at the beginning of 1st grade, I noticed that she hadn't eaten her sandwich one day. I asked her why and she told me she didn't have time after she ate the fruit roll up that one of her friends had given her. ARGH! She then got the message from mommy that you don't eat candy until you eat lunch!

Our middle school is rolling out a new program this month that I think is really cool. The kids are all being given picture ID's that they will use like a debit card to buy lunch. Parents can "put money" on the card. Free and reduced lunch kids will not longer be singled out, and kids can't lose their lunch money. It's supposed to speed up things at lunch time, since the cashiers won't be dealing with change.

[greystone98]

At her school, the kids are all given a pin number the first day which they put into the computer as they go thru the lunch line. I send a check with her for $10 or $15 when the school sends a note home that her account is getting low.

<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Pretty much the same for us. DS has a PIN # that stays with him throughout elementary school. I usually send a check once a quarter for about $35 since he buys his lunch less than half the time.

Lunch cost for students is $1.50 and $3.00 when I go and eat with him, which I try and do at least 4 or 5 times a year. The food certainly isn't gourmet but they have a couple of choices and sometimes it's quite good.

I can also remember the $.35 lunch when I was growing up and there were no choices of selection. If it was fried chicken day, it was fried chicken day, period.

Debbi

[HiddenMickey]

My kids REFUSE to eat anything from the cafeteria. This mom is really tired of making lunches every morning all year long (for day camp too)! I've eaten food at their cafeteria a few times now, and though it's not great, it hasn't been awful either. Not sure of the pricing....but I think it's $1.35.

-HiddenMickey

[Dsnymom]

My daughter is in elementary school, and her lunch is $1.65/day. They also serve a hot breakfast which is $1.20/day. I didn't think the price was that bad, but she doesn't buy her lunch every day. She loves pb&j, so that is what she takes with her most days. We go thru the calendar at the beginning of every month and she circles the stuff she likes, and she buys her lunch on that day.

At her school, the kids are all given a pin number the first day which they put into the computer as they go thru the lunch line. I send a check with her for $10 or $15 when the school sends a note home that her account is getting low.

[Las17]

My DD pays $1.50 in elementary and DS pays $1.75 in middle school. That's a .25 increase for each since last year.

Their lunches are pretty tasty though! I think they've only packed their lunch maybe 4-5 times since they started to school(they're in 4th and 7th). My middle-schooler especially loves his lunch choices. They usually get 4 or 5(sometimes 6) choices! The other day I noticed chicken fajitas on the menu! I told him he eats better than I do!

Laura

[Bert & Sully]

Gee it's gone up a bit since we were in school [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] !

[reinstructor]

I don't even remember how much lunch was when I was in school. The only time I ate at school was in elementary. I lived close enough to go home the rest of the time, so I ate my mother's cooking. No complaints here. In the far reaches of my mind, I seem to remember $1 a week, then they went up to $1.25 a week. And NO, they did not cook over a compfire outside the building. We had a school kitchen with a gas stove and everything.

[ 10-16-2002, 10:42 AM: Message edited by: reinstructor ]