School lunch serving sizes leave a lot to be desired.
I always added a protein as in lunch for my big kids. I opened doing only before/after care when my own children were infants/toddlers.
The biggest hits were:
Hot Ham & cheese sandwich (bonus points if you add a couple of peices of pepperoni in there), chips, sliced apple, pickle, yogurt and water. (my school-agers never seemed to drink unflavored milk so I just cut it out for waste and added a dairy. Schools can serve chocolate milk, daycares can't here.
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Taco Tuesday. Cooked ground beef, shredded cheese, diced tomatoes, shredded lettuce, sour cream, taco sauce. They made their own. Applesauce and water.
Manwich, tots, carrot sticks, tangerine, cubed cheese and water.
Beef, black bean and cheese burritos, corn on the cob minis, strawberries, string cheese and water.
HM Bacon cheeseburger pizza, green beans, banana, pudding and water. (Fridays)