*WG Pepperoni Pizza (offered) OR
Turkey and Noodles (not offered) OR
Chef Salad w/ Crackers
Broccoli
WG Hot Roll (not offered)
Seasoned Broccoli
*Fresh Garden Salad
Peaches and Apricots
*Variety of Fresh Fruit (apple, tangerine, nectarine)
The sign says Balanced Choices -- 1st time I've seen one of these!
The dreaded pizza day. Before this day arrived, I was warned. I was encouraged to pick something else on the menu. Anything else. "Just don't eat the pizza!"
To be true to my personal investigation of what exactly is being fed to the children in the OKCPS district, I daringly chose the Pepperoni Pizza. It's been more than an hour since I ate and I'm still paying for it.
The pizza had a metallic taste to it. The texture and overall looks reminded me of the frozen pizza's we used to get in college . . . Tony's Frozen pizza or something like that. You know, the basic cardboard with some cheese like food sprinkled with unidentifiable meats bits on top that cost next to nothing (but was a step up from Ramen Noodles). Basically the same, just a different shape. Of the kids that chose pizza, a lot of them scraped the toppings off in order to eat the bready part.
There were a lot of chef salads on trays today. With their side of fresh garden salad.
Broccoli tasted good. I'm not sure what it was seasoned with, if anything. It was full of stem pieces, which I personally don't mind, but I am aware that most kids do not like the stem parts. It would go over better if it were mostly broccoli flowers and less stems.
Fruit choice: tangerine. It was delicious!! My only complaint was how cold it was. My teeth hurt biting into the pieces. I would like to have had time to let my fruit come to room temp.
I only mention the temp because the kids don't have time for the fruit to warm up and they are not allowed to take any part of their lunch from the cafeteria. If they didn't eat, they have to throw it away. Today I watched one child try to hurry up and eat the rest of his pizza while walking to the trash can. Walking and eating.
After eating, I stepped into the teacher's lounge. One of the teachers who is on duty during breakfast said I should have had the breakfast pizza instead of the lunch pizza. "It tastes a lot better." What?? Kids that get both of their meals at school had pizza for breakfast AND lunch?? Hopefully most of those kids chose the chef salad for lunch.
This makes me think that at some point I might want to see what they are eating for breakfast for an entire month.
Another tidbit I learned today. Some schools give the meals to their teachers at no cost. Our elementary school charges everyone. I wonder how some schools can do this, but others do not?
I've had teacher friends at other schools telling me they are not getting the same lunch choices we are at our elementary school. This is confusing to me. I thought all elementary schools had to abide by the same lunch menu (within the options above).
Yesterday I received: "Again at my OKC school cafeteria, we had a different meal. BBQ ground turkey or a hamburger, with french fries and sliced strawberries. " I didn't know that BBQ ground turkey was on the menu? And at yet another school: "we had the wannbee bbq turkey sandwich . . .and fries and peas. . and a cup of applesauce. . ."
It would seem that there are two different menus floating around. I pulled my menu directly from the OKCPS Child Nutrition Service website.
What is being served at your elementary school?
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