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In reply to the discussion: Now they're going to F with school lunches???? [View all]HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Make school lunches great again?
My personal thoughts are that making lunches healthier vs making them provide nutrition as the only meal of the day, are exclusive. If it is your only meal, low fat is not what you want. As the only meal, you want to pack as many calories and protein in that lunch as you can.
Vs making them healthier assumes that kids are receiving 2 other well balanced meals that day, and that they need to moderate their intake at lunch.
Ultimately you need to provide very different meals for kids in different situations.
My experience has been at schools where parents provide 1-2 classroom snacks a day. Which is generally garbage, more for enjoyment than serving either purpose (health vs supplementing the one meal of the day). It seems conflicted.