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[AliciaG]

My children are in Elementary school and their lunches are $1.55 per day. When I go to eat lunch with them, it is $3.00 for an adult visitor. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

[Janet 46]

Most kids in my son's elementary school bring lunch from home so I only need to write a check for $1.75 per week for milk. I had no idea what the cost of a hot lunch was these days, so I checked the form. It's $1.50 per day, but I know he would not eat most of what they serve.

He brings a PB&J sandwich, a piece of fruit and some cookies or other treat each day along with the milk and he complains that he hasn't enough time to eat it all.

[marylandmommy]

My daughter's lunches costs $1.50. The past couple of years, I prepaid for the whole year (with a small discount equal to one week I think). But this year, she is taking her lunch half of the time, so I couldn't prepay.

[DVC_Don]

Ours here are $1.35 per day and $1.25 per day if paid in advance (20 days worth) [img]graemlins/yuma.gif[/img]

I remember school lunches being .25 per day. I was in high school when it went to .30 and we students went on a lunch strike. The local papers even showed up. The cafeteria workers broke the strike by serving pizza the next day and the students caved in. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[BostonTeaParty]

Originally posted by MichelleC:
How much are your kids' school lunches?

When I started school lunches were 35 cents a day. Big change!

<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Mine pay $1.50 per day and they attend middle school. The price may be a big change, but the food hasn't changed at all. It's still terrible. I've convinced my oldest DS to let me make him a good lunch, but my youngest DS still buys 2 or 3 times a week, depending on the menu.

[aurora1429]

Lunches at school here are $1.85 [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

DD will not eat hot lunch, so it's PB&J for my fussy eater.

[iloverags2]

Goodness! I remember paying .50 a day back in the early grade school years (before mom started packing lunches for me). DH's daughter takes money with her to H.S., never pays more than 2.50 for whatever she ends up getting (salad, chicken strips, cookie, drink, who knows what else!).

[Diz]

There's no such thing as a free lunch, so they say, and it's absolutely true at DS#1 & 2 schools. MS - $2.25 HS - $2.85! My sons say the lunches are terrible! They bag it.

One day DS#1 forgot his lunch. School policy is no phone calls. They do not "loan" money for lunch. Well, he came home absolutely famished. He told me he forgot his lunch. I asked if he had extra money with him to buy something. He said no. I asked what do they do then? "After everyone else has gone through the line, they call you up and give you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a milk"...and that's it...for high schoolers! I said how was your sandwich. He said they wouldn't give me one because by the time everyone else got through the line, lunch period was over! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] Talk about an upset mother! I let the school know that they cannot keep my son from eating lunch and if it ever happened again I would be going to the school board or the local paper if necessary.

Fortunately it hasn't happened again (atleast to my son) because he now keeps extra money in his book bag for emergencies!

[disneyknut]

My sons go to elementary school & our price for lunch is $1.25 per day ( cheap compared to some of yours) They also have 'ice cream & snacks' that they can buy for an additional 25 cents to 60 cents.

[Dumbo]

I have no idea since I haven't had anyone is school in a few years. DS #2 usually took his lunch as did his brother.

[CRCrazy]

Ouch, our elementary school is 1.75 a day. My girls love to get hot lunch, even my middle daughter. I questioned her about it, and they can get a peanut butter sandwich instead if they want to. If so, all they get is a sandwich on cheap white bread, a piece of fruit and a milk. For 1.75, you'd think they would just sub the sandwich for the main entree! My 12 year old (the one that doesn't eat!) weighs 140 lbs and is 5'7" tall. I don't think that is an adequate lunch for her - but I'm just the Mom!

[DVC_Don]

My son loves the school lunch. He says the middle school food is much better than the elementary. They have 2 or 3 hot choices plus a sandwich and/or salad bar.

He did forget his lunch money one day (forgets both ways huh?). I stopped at the school office on my way to work and left an envelope with them. They called him down to the office to get it. He thought he was in trouble till they gave him the envelope. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Fortissimo]

Our school lunches for students are $1.75. I know the schools are pretty limited to what they can serve becasue of the national guidlelines for school lunches, but you wouldn't catch me eating that stuff!

When I was in middle school I would eat the hot lunch and a sack lunch from home. Hey, I swam four hours a day so if I didn't eat a lot I would have wasted away to nothing.

[Shell_of_the_South]

Since I had to sit down this morning and write 3 checks for lunch money for the kids, it got me thinking. How much are your kids' school lunches?

Mine pay $1.40 per day in elementary school, and $1.50 in middle school. When I started school lunches were 35 cents a day. Big change!

[Shell_of_the_South]

I have to defend our lunchroom ladies, because my MIL was the lunchroom manager until she retired this year. They get some of the food from the government and they have to serve it, even if it's not what kids would eat. I remember one time they got a large shipment of dates! How many kids like dates? But they had to serve them.

My MIL says the school systems waste so much money on computers, cashiers, secretaries, etc. related to lunch money that they could do away with all of this and feed every child for free!

After reading some of your posts, I realized I'm not as bad off as I thought, some folks are paying over $2.00 a day. Yikes!!