Packing lunches for kids isn’t always easy. It can be challenging to come up with healthy food that kids will eat, that stays fresh outside a refrigerator for a few hours. We can’t do sandwiches and carrot sticks every day, right? It looks like some parents have even more of a challenge.
A five-year-old Colorado girl was sent home with a note about nutritious lunches and her Oreos. Mom, Leeza Pearson, said she’d packed a ham and cheese sandwich and a string cheese, in addition to the Oreos. The letter sent home read:
“Dear Parents, it is very important that all students have a nutritious lunch. This is a public school setting and all children are required to have a fruit, a vegetable and a heavy snack from home, along with a milk. If they have potatoes, the child will also need bread to go along with it. Lunchables, chips, fruit snacks, and peanut butter are not considered to be a healthy snack. This is a very important part of our program and we need everyone’s participation.”
Did you get that? No lunchables, chips, fruit snacks, peanut butter as a snack. I could maybe understand the note if the mom only sent Oreos or sent Oreos every single day. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case.
Brenda Dean, the director of Children’s Academy, which is a private preschool program through Aurora Public Schools, said the letter should not have gone out to parents and she is looking into the note.
