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Upstate NY Babies
s/o preschool
When I went to pick up Evan today I met a grandmother that dropped off food for her grandson: CocoPuffs, Peanut Butter Crackers (which they aren't allowed to have), Vienna sausages (wtf?) and a case of those "juice" jugs - not sure what they are called but they look like little barrels and have the foil top that you pull back (they've been around forever)
And here I stressed about what to send for Evan : |
I know I need to let go of certain things...but yesterday they gave them cereal bars - and all I wanted to do was say "oh really, what kind? What was in it? Was it organic? Hahaha...but I don't want to be THAT mom...not yet. They tried to give him juice and he spit it out...haha! C'mon...do you HAVE to give juice? Just give them water!
The school sent out a huge packet about acceptable foods and eating healthy so I was all excited that they would be healthier...um, that must have been for show. I mean, they can't control what kids bring in for their lunch (lunchables) but do all preschools serve juice for snack? Maybe they do..
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Re: s/o preschool
Gavin's gives them a choice of juice or snack. I'm not a huge stickler about juice...he gets is here (though I cut it with water), but on school days he knows he's not allowed to have it here since he got some at school.
I'm not a huge fan of some of the snacks they give them, but I know it's not every day so I don't make a huge deal of it. Fruit snacks are one...he asked if we could get some at home, and I told him no, that those would be a special snack he gets only at preschool.
They give water at Reed's preschool. We don't pack a snack. They take care of all the snacks. He usually has fruit and maybe some pretzels or a few animal crackers. When they did color days at the beginning of the year they had the snacks correspond with the colors. It was cute. Reed loved to tell me about the snack like on green day when they had Kiwi, pears, and celery. Occasionally they have cupcakes or a cookie when it is someone's birthday or for the holiday party.
They give juice at his MDO. Pierce also goes to MDO and I just fill his sippy with water since he doesn't like juice anyway (even though he carries his sippy around and says it has "ju". Reed has juice and I don't mind. He had to start drinking juice at 7 months because of all the tests he had to undergo because of his cancer. I think anything is fine in moderation.
When Claire was a year old I was presented by a form that said I either had to allow her daycare to serve her juice or I would have to have her ped sign it saying she couldn't. I said that I would not sign it and I wasn't going to visit the dr. to have the dr. write a letter. I was the parent and it was my decision. On another day, another teacher said I was "depriving" her of fruit by not giving her juice. I freaked. She then backtracked and said that NYS saw my refusal for juice as depriving her of fruit. It then made sense to me....the daycare receives subsidies from the NYS and they count juice as a fruit serving. By my refusal, without my peds approval, I was rocking their boat with the state.
Anyway, I refused to allow it for a few months and then eventually agreed to letting her have watered down juice at school. I think more than allowing her to have juice, I was p!ssed at how everything was presented to me.
I'm not crazy about the menu at Evan's school, but it's not terrible.
They have juice for breakfast (100% apple cut w/ water) but he's only been there early enough for breakfast a couple times.
Lunch is typically pretty decent- pasta or a casserole or a sandwich/tortilla roll-up/type thing, always with a fruit and veggie on the side. Lowfat milk is served w/ all lunches.
Snack is typically just animal crackers, cheese crackers (goldfish type), ritz crackers w/ sliced cheese, cheesesticks, graham crackers etc. and it's served with water.
They seem to give Tyler a lot of crap at school. Last year they had milkshakes almost once a week which I wasn't thrilled about, but then when I really thought about it, he was only having 3-4 ounces at most. I figure it is just a snack, not a meal. On regular snack days the district provides stuff like cereal, crackers and rice cakes. They get a choice of plain milk (elementary school gets chocolate), juice or water.
Brianna gets what ever the parent who signed up for snack brings in each day. One parent brings in for the entire class.
Belle's school doesn't offer juice. They offer fresh fruit in place of juice and the drink choices are milk and water. We rarely give Belle juice at home. She drinks way more than she eats at home so I prefer not to give her juice.
The schools menu isn't bad. Vegetables and fruit every day at lunch. Snacks can be yogart, jello, crackers and cheese. There are more but thats all I can think of at the moment.