School Lunches

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  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    bionicamy wrote:
    MaxGoldenrod wrote:
    Accounts and prepaid lunch cards? WTF?

    Where I come from, the weekly menu was in the paper on Friday evenings. We'd sit down with mom and decide which lunches we wanted. The other days we brown bagged it with whatever mom gave us. Paid for lunch with cash or a ticket. Didn't like what Mom made? It was a long time until dinner.

    High school became more of an allowance. I got so much per week and whatever I didn't use for lunches, I got to keep.

    Those accounts are awful! The school district where mine went to school would only give you a balance nothing more.
    All someone had to know is a student ID or maybe enter a wrong ID and they are charging away....

    This is what happened in my case. The lady was scanning the wrong picture and we were getting charged for it. It got corrected on our end, but now there's 130$ outstanding that no one will probably collect.
  • rick1zoo2
    rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    my kids' school has it all on-line, a lot easier than writing out checks. I get an email when one of them gets under $10 in their account. I just replenished their accounts, $186 for 3 kids, should last about 5 weeks.

    On the website, you can see the history of what they bought. Some days they have multiple lunches. "I was hungry". ok
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    I can't imagine kids with "accounts" for school lunches. We had ticket booklets, color coded by sliding scale. So if the tickets were blue lunch was free, green 25 cents, yellow $1 or something like that. No ticket, you pay $1. No $1, no food: go beg steal or borrow if you're that hungry. Not much in the way of options either. It was like one or two things and pb&j if you don't want what's hot. Never a vegetable in sight either. If fruit was available it cost cash. Vending machines for soda.

    But if you got there early enough for breakfast it was free for anyone. :thumbup:
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  • jbarbian
    jbarbian Posts: 991
    rick1zoo2 wrote:
    my kids' school has it all on-line, a lot easier than writing out checks. I get an email when one of them gets under $10 in their account. I just replenished their accounts, $186 for 3 kids, should last about 5 weeks.

    On the website, you can see the history of what they bought. Some days they have multiple lunches. "I was hungry". ok
    My kids accounts were all online too. Loved looking at the history when they were in hs. Son played football and he'd eat three, four lunches then go to the school store and buy a couple of bags of flaming hots and several Gatorades (he was still a skinny thing). The daughter would eat an apple and bottle of water every day, thats it!
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    duska3419 wrote:
    I can't imagine kids with "accounts" for school lunches. We had ticket booklets, color coded by sliding scale. So if the tickets were blue lunch was free, green 25 cents, yellow $1 or something like that. No ticket, you pay $1. No $1, no food: go beg steal or borrow if you're that hungry. Not much in the way of options either. It was like one or two things and pb&j if you don't want what's hot. Never a vegetable in sight either. If fruit was available it cost cash. Vending machines for soda.

    But if you got there early enough for breakfast it was free for anyone. :thumbup:

    We never got free breakfast, but it was really cheap... something like a dollar

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