Video: Over 90% of CSD Prepared Lunches are Made From Scratch
Decatur Metro | August 7, 2015 | 8:53 amWith the first week of the school year coming to a close, this seems a fitting time to share this great video about CSD’s lunch program posted on YouTube by the Wylde Center.
Congrats to CSD faculty, staff and all students on their first week of school!
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Very interesting. Just a few questions. How much food in served to kids but discarded into the trash? How many new employees did CSD have to hire for the new food preperation? How has the reliance on “fresh locally grown foods” affected the budget? Are children allowed to bring their own food and drink from home? Is anyone besides myself concerned that this video is just another piece of progressive propaganda that dominates our school system?
If eating fresh, healthy food is “progressive propaganda” then sign me up and pass the Kool-aid. Er, I mean all natural, fresh squeezed orange juice!
“Is anyone besides myself concerned that this video is just another piece of progressive propaganda that dominates our school system?”
No.
I’m a retired Atlanta teacher and work as a sub teacher in Decatur so I go to many different schools. I was pleasantly amazed when I saw the food the cafeteria was putting out. Many choices and healthy. The best cafeteria crew is at Glennwood where it is made with love.
” Are children allowed to bring their own food and drink from home?”
Is this a serious question?
I dunno the rules in CSD, but bans on home-made lunches have happened before.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-04-11/news/ct-met-school-lunch-restrictions-041120110410_1_lunch-food-provider-public-school
my middle school-er makes/takes a lunch everyday – my high school-er buys everyday, he likes the lunch at that school and he is the picker eater than his sibling.
Honest question: This change in CSD’s offerings was 100% grass roots initiated — a nonprofit that’s made great strides in helping Decaturites “grow for themselves” and parents pushing for better food choices for their kids. They organized, partnered with CSD, helped train staff and developed product channels to get the food we need. All in the absence of government.
Not so long ago, you made a post extolling the virtues of neighbors gettin’ it done rather than waiting for handouts from The Man. That’s what this is. Help me understand why it doesn’t get the same admiration. It has to be more than just “healthy local food” being a hippie thing.
I mean no disrespect to anyone, and you’re a good egg for responding the way you did, but I think he’s trolling the board with this one.
Thanks. I’m really just looking for an education in another point of view. This endeavor seems to check pretty much all of Chris’ usual “good thing” boxes and I’m genuinely interested in where it “goes astray.”
If the government insists on educating our children, they can at least offer healthy meals. I see no issue here, Chris.
would you please refer us to a first world country where children aren’t educated in government funded schools?
What’s your point? America should not try something because no one else has? And you said “fund”. That’s different than government “run”. Though I don’t think education needs to be government funded either. I think we can have a hugely successful education system that is privately run and provides a better education for even the poorest citizens. Certainly not a topic that can be properly discussed via blog.
Did they just put a stick of butter in the broccoli?
You gotta have SOMETHING good on that boring broccoli!
Amen! Butter and/or cheese only make broccoli more delicious. Come to think of it, they make just about everything more delicious.
nothing wrong with butter, as Mark Bittman can tell you.
Students can bring their own lunches. This initiative has been driven by many hard working parent volunteers who have worked tirelessly along the amazing folks at the Wylde Center and the CSD nutrition department. They’ve had a hard job of balancing nutrition, budgetary restraints, and serving food that meets national guidelines and children’s palates. Our local restaurants have been supportive in helping fund raise, with the support of our local citizens, of course. Huge, huge, huge thanks to those DF2S (Decatur Farm To School) volunteers, local restaurants who host events benefitting DF2S, the Wylde Center, Decatur parents/citizens who support this cause, and CSD nutritional department for being open minded and hard working to bring fresh meals to our students. Keep up the amazing work!!!!
This is absolutely phenomenal. I just hope they don’t feed the trolls.
They feed the trolls healthy meals made from scratch, instead of feeling them attention and small children.
I’m not sending my kid to public schools unless the cafeteria is a Cook Out.