What was in your lunch box today? How would veggie pizza with whole grain crust, rice and beans, veggie subs, and lentil sauce with pasta sound for lunch? According to the US School Nutrition Association that's the veg options that are most popular at US schools. I'll have one of each thanks!
Their recent survey found that almost 2 out of 3 US schools have regular veg options on offer. I don't know about you but my school tuckshop had mostly meat pies, sausage rolls and sweets (ok! so you won't hear me complaining about sweets :P).
It's about time we had more veg options in schools here as well! And it seems I'm not the only one who thinks so. The World Cancer Research Fund is now urging parents not to pack their kids' lunchboxes with ham and other processed meats. This follows a report by them earlier this year in which they concluded: "The scientific evidence linking processed meat [ie. ham, bacon, salami, etc] and bowel cancer shows that the best amount to eat is none at all." Go WCRF!
What's your school's veg tuckshop selection like? Might be a good time to suggest they add a few more options!
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Now, the only regular veg items are fruit salad, yucky cheesy nachos, and egg salad sandwiches (which are eggy and overpriced, so I never buy them). Twice a week they have vegetarian pizza, and once a week they have sushi, the veg one being avocado rolls (not the best texture, but ok).
So, I don't get tuckshop very often. I just take my own. Tastes better and healthier! When Mum gives my brother and I tuckshop money, I buy something like chocolate soymilk poppers at the supermarket and freeze them for my lunchbox.
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i can only get something 2 days of the week
its all nachos, ham crap, ceasar salad eeek
i can only get sushi on friday and a falafel wrap on monday
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they make all kinds of rolls with anything you want in it, or a box of salad or whatever... and you can also get spinach and cheese triangles/vege pasties etc...
but i never order so i always just get a roll and some twisties XD
lol
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The school also does sausage sizzles every so often, but they NEVER do vegetarian sausages.
So...yeah i just make my own lunch.
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all it is is meatpies, dim sims (EW!), sausage rolls ect ect.
and because my school is on a healthy plan thing the only vegetarian food there is to buy is deep fried spring rolls! WT*!
so i just bring my own lunch with choccy soymilk! FAV
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Also they now have veg options for all sandwhiches, pasta dishes and wraps.
So tehy are taking a step in the right direction...hopefully one day it will be completely vegetarian!
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Sure they made the switch from deep fried food a couple of years ago, to improve our health.
But what about the thousands of products they sell each year that come from factory farms?
More than half of the lunch items on the menu contain chicken in some shape or form. and the rest all contain meat. And it is definatley not free range.
I think the best us vego's can do is a packet of chips for lunch.
ohwell, I'm happy with my own lunch from home, at least I know what's in it. lol
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Additionally, buy a doughnut or a wrap and you get it in a bag which reads "That's Good Chicken!" with a fuzzy cartoon chicken raising his wing as though he was giving it a thumbs up. I never buy food at the canteen anymore, as I feel like I'm advertising cruelty, slaughter and unhealthy, processed rubber-meat!
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and they had this idea of bringing all new food so they got curry but it has chicken in it, they really dont care about people that dont eat meat, ive even sugested differnt foods to make but they just ignore you !
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It effing sucks.
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There arnt even apples or oranges sold.
Just meat pattie burgers, sausage rolls, and chicken or ham sandwiches. Grrrr
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