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My children's school serves great healthy choices. The problem is that their high school is overcrowded and they don't want to stand in line forever to get their food. So, I make their lunch every day. I love being able to provide their lunches for them. Sometimes I will stick a "love" note in their lunch bag as a nice surprise.

options for school tiffin:
1. boiled egg n banana
2. no cream cake and cookies/nuts
3. bread with cheese/jam,butt er, and a fruit
4.french toast.
5.french fries, and any 1 fruit.
6. noodles with vegetables/with or without chicken.
7. Chicken sandwich and a fruit.

Our daughter is in 2nd grade and has always brought her lunch to school since the age of 2 when she started in daycare. She has celiac disease. The lunches available at the school are the gluten-free/cas ein-free lunches that do not provide her with the dairy component her doctor requires her to eat. She takes vitamin D/Calcium every morning and a multi-vitamin with iron every evening to ensure she has adequate intake of those vitamins/minera ls each day. The pediatric gastroenterolog ist does bloodwork annually to measure vitamin D and iron levels. The variety of the menu is extremely limited at the school; therefore we provide all meals at school including snacks, treats (when others bring birthday treats to celebrate their child's birthday), and gluten-free foods for parties. Not all children can eat in the school cafeteria safely due to medically necessary diets.

my three kids take their lunch to school every day as the food on offer at their school is truly awful - and could best be called food like substances. cheap rubbish served to kids - chicken nuggets, tator tots, french fries, pizza - junk junk and more junk. All the food that is served in my kids school were banned in the schools i went to in Australia about 15 years ago - i want my kids to have very little processed food, to eat fruit and whole foods. Im not a food nut but this small thing is important to me.