beignets;140701 wrote: we use the oldfashin system: brown bag it. better than school foods anyday.
I completely agree. While schools do usually attempt to provide a healthy alternative to the sloppy joe, pizza boat and friend chicken, most kids during their lunch hour don't want to eat those things --- like fruit, lean meat options.
By sending them to school with a sack lunch, you'll know what they'll be eating during lunch because you packed it for them!
We have a system where we can see what is spent every day through the year for breakfast and lunch. You can pay by cash or check.
Sister lives in another town and their school made them get all new access passwords mid-year and the system is denying all credit cards and the company can not seem to figure out what the problem is. Meanwhile, the kids are being told in the line as they are getting the food that they need to put money on the account...yet the system will not let parents do it since the beginning of the year. They also get hit with $2 per transaction per child. Depending on how many kids you have in school, in one year time that could almost add up to a month worth of lunch just in service charge. Even just two kids once a month would be $4 and then times 9 months is $36. That's not even right.
I'd rather just send the money in an envelope in school and let the school enter it onto the account.
Our school uses myschoolaccount.com. We can check balances & even view what our child has ate the past 30 days. It costs $1.00 to add money to the account and it can only come from a checking account--no credit cards accepted.
