School lunches
@reneecancun02 (7)
United States
October 11, 2007 3:11pm CST
For those of you with young children, how much do you pay for school lunches? I have 2 children in school right now, 1 in 1st grade and 1 in 7th grade. I am paying just over $150.00 a month for school lunches!! Is that ridiculous? And to top it off, they aren't that great. My 1st grader is a picky eater but I hate sending cold food to school with him everyday. We live in a small rural community in the midwest. I was just interested to know what other areas are paying for the school lunches.
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@gradyslady (4054)
• United States
11 Oct 07
My goodness! My mom used to give me 10-15 dollars a week for lunch, yeah that was still expensive, but still not even close to what you're paying! Are you sure that it's all going for lunch? I know that some kids in school would just say they needed so much and keep most of it for themselves to go to the movies or whatever.
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@reneecancun02 (7)
• United States
11 Oct 07
We have online access to their lunch accounts. They have to deposit the money into their account and use like a credit card in the cafeteria so I know they are using the money for lunches. Now sometimes my youngest is eating breakfast there too but still it's just ridiculous. I remember when I was in school my mom would give me $5.00 a week and that would be it. I think just the regular lunch at their school is almost $3.00!
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@GloomCookieLex (6073)
• United States
12 Oct 07
Um, well it's called inflation. Everything gets more expencive as time goes on. In 1948 you could get a movie ticket, popcorn, soda and candy for $1.50. Now, it's about $25.
Are you having a hard time paying for food, or are you just not aware of the concept of inflation?
@gradyslady (4054)
• United States
12 Oct 07
GloomCookieLex are you talking to me? Because I just graduated not too long ago....and I doubt inflation is really that much for school lunches.
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
12 Oct 07
My son gets free school breakfast and lunch. Otherwise it is $1.10 a day. He is in 2nd grade and is fairly picky as well. He sometimes requests a sack lunch when he REALLY hates what they are having for lunch. The food at his school is actually pretty good though and there are only a few days a month where he is taking a lunch. Oh, and we live in Missouri.
@hopejordan (3561)
• Australia
12 Oct 07
welli am in australia so every day is $5 a day but i don't do it all the time
just depends on what you get
@nin0507 (11)
• United States
12 Oct 07
Hi- I have a second grader and a fifth grader. We live in a rural area in NY state. I pay $20 per child for 10 lunches, so a total of $80 per month. Wow - you guys are paying like twice that! Outrageous!
@acridrobinn (11)
• Turkey
12 Oct 07
I think it is normal. You pay $75 each of them, and it means $.5-4 per day for each of your children.(teh students go to school mostly 20 day in a month). In my area we pay at least $4 each day.
@rogue13xmen13 (14403)
• United States
12 Oct 07
Sometimes I used to hate school lunches, I would avoid eating if I could because they were so bad at times, my mother and grandmother taught me how to make lunches, and I took those to school. I got creative with my lunches.
@usmcsgtwife (4997)
• United States
12 Oct 07
I always pack my daughters lunch but here it cost 1.90 a day for luncg, they just switched there menu to somethng called lighhouse lunch and it's all very heathy like whole grain pizza, salads, a white meat chicken tenders, orange chicken with rice,
@cupoftea (714)
• United States
11 Oct 07
We live in Michigan near The Detroit area and I have 3 kids in school. I think the lunches are $2.35. Do you have a reduced lunch program. Here we do. You fill out a form with your income and how many family members you have. I filled out the form last year and got reduced lunch and had to pay .40cents, this year my kids get free lunch. Look into it its worth it.
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
11 Oct 07
School lunches here are 90 cents a day. They also have a program for low income families though where you can get half priced or even free lunches. I applied for my daughter when she started preschool this year and we got approved for free lunches. So luckily I don't have to pay anything. although i still do because she is a picky eater and mostly packs her lunch.
@motaz4 (133)
• Egypt
12 Oct 07
hi .about my lunch,my mom was make it to me before going to school.she was agood economic mom.i like her and her food too.
@bargaingirl (844)
• United States
12 Oct 07
When I was in high school a few years ago, the school lunch was $2.25 a day. If I had 2 kids, paying for their school lunch for a month would only be about $100 here, give or take. However, I don't have kids yet and when I do I'd like to pack their lunches most days because it is healthier and cheaper. I plan on letting them buy a few times a week but not always.
