Lessons in life I have five and two year old boys. I have friends with kids in elementary and middle school. All I Hear about is how they are paying for all the little things because the schools don't have any money. I feel like I do well but money is still an issue with rising prices a family can struggle making 100 grand. My oldest boy Philip will begin Kindergarten in the fall. With little Ethan just a few years behind. I would like to be involved with helping schools self sustain financially and nutritionally. I invite everyone to brainstorm with me as I already have some Ideas. P.S. do i start a group or friends list? If its the latter be my friend
I love the chicken kabob idea! Most kids would eat those I think, maybe not the veggy part of them tho. LOL The grilled chickens might work also, would definitely be cheaper to buy whole chickens then breasts for kaboobs. Unless I use my natural beauty and charm to get a deep discount ROFLMBO!!! [img]smile.gif[/img]
I'm going to remember the 100th day snack, CrewChief and pass that idea along.
Thanks ladies!
anothermom - smart disclaimer - we don't want another 'dead pig' thread running through here!
Debbieomi - sorry to get so far off track!
My son has a favorite 'healthy snack' we call Test Day Trail Mix. It's a 7 year old tradition now! We make one big bag and it lasts all through testing week. His teachers love it too. It includes:
Multi Grain Cheerios
Pretzel Sticks
Goldfish Crackers
Chocolate Chips
Mini Marshmallows
Also, the younger grade students make a 100th Day of School snack mix. Each student brings in 100 of something (goldfish, cheerios, marshmallows, m&ms, raisins, etc). It's all mixed together and everyone gets to eat some of it.
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Oops - sorry we have gotten so far away from your original question! As far as muffins go, we do use muffins alot, we have some pretty creative moms and cupcakes are not the norm really. I agree the kids don't need the extra candy at Halloween, there are plenty of other little Halloween things available at the stores - silly erasers, crayons, stickers, pencils, games, etc.
For the picnic what about grilled chicken, salads and watermelon slices? Pig roast would be offensive to me and I'm not a vegetarian, I just could not do a pig roast.
I'd stay away from the nuts for the first day snacks, I would do just fruit and veggies. My kids love to bring baby carrots, cherry tomatoes and red pepper slices for snacks, maybe pretzels or crackers for the kids that won't eat fruits and veggies.
Wow, this thread opened up a can of worms.
As an aforementioned "fat person", I only wish the government had stepped in when I was a child, thirty some years ago. The eating habits we develop as children often last us through our lives. And let me testify as to how difficult it is to break those habits.
As far as the cupcake debate....if you are baking them, decorating them, you're putting some work into it....wouldn't it be just as easy or easier to make muffins? And with Halloween, 98% of the kids in our district are gonna be going trick or treating later that evening and getting a bagful of candy. I don't think they need another bagful from school. All that candy that is left from the Halloween carnival is given back to the teachers and they use it as prizes and awards throughout the year. Why? Why are we setting our kids up to view food/candy as rewards? We shouldn't be handing our kids a piece of candy because they got an answer right.
Anyhow....back to the original intention of my thread...If anyone has ideas for what to serve for our back to school picnic, I would like to hear them. I should mention that there are about 750 students in our schools and we had approximately 60% of our families attend last year.
