@JLeslie It would be nice if they did have microwaves, but my son’s school doesn’t even have an actual cafeteria. My son’s lunches are made at the middle school next door and brought over at lunch time for the children (to save costs on the schools).
@Mikewlf337 I’m aware of what the options are and I’m telling you, my son is an extremely picky eater when it comes to those options. I’m a nurse, I know what healthy eating is. I’ve even went and ate lunch with my son on several occasions. I know he gets a healthier lunch by eating at school than he would with what I feel safe packing him for lunch (with what he will eat with his pickiness). His pickiness is something we are working on getting rid of. It’s just a slow process.
I also never blamed the school lunches for childhood obesity. Sure they could be healthier than they already are, but as it stands now, they already have set guidelines they have to follow. I don’t agree with school that have soda machines and candy machines in them, but that’s not part of the school meals issue. Schools stopping serving the meals won’t decrease the number of children that are obese in my opinion, instead I could see it having the direct opposite effect as parents send their children to school with more junk than healthy food. Sure, that comes back to parental responsibility, but the question is about what we can do (as a whole) to help with childhood obesity, not just what parents can do.
The only think I mentioned about schools was improving and increasing the physical education program.