@@mindy808aloha7 at a price, my friend, steaks and lobster usually you get only buying through commissary and trust me it better eating outside and school lunch rather jail and prison food in term of quality and money.
@@aviationnine-tailedfox2216 no? My mother worked for the state of Hawaii prison, the waimanalo prison, and she can cook whatever they have over at the prison, so they can get steak and CORRECTLY cooked pizza and rice and just whatever is better than school food
They still serve shoyu chicken and even Korean chicken. I am not sure what school those kids go to but I work at a public school and lunched are not that bad.
Spanish green beans, army surplus stuff like peanut butter and raisin sandwiches, baked macaroni and ground beef. Juice time was 5¢ I think. Kids would love cafe duty cause we ate free and even got seconds if we wanted.
A snack tower? my god, I would have never imagined having something like that as a kid, snacks were a rare treat and if I was hungry i'd get some fruit.
Yep. I used to love school lunches. Now days my daughter says the lunches are horrible and most kids won’t even eat cause it looks gross. So I pack her lunches to make sure she eats. She’s in high school and does alot of walking so she needs nutritional meals to give her energy for the day. Lunches are not like they used to be.
Not all the schools are the same. Some of the cafeteria managers are lazy and won't even plan out their menu's properly. They are supposed to have healthy balanced meals according to the federal guidelines. Radford High school has some of the best food with only one cook and one baker. If you have a good and organized cafeteria manager, the kids will have good food.
i was so happy when my high school put in a real salad bar. everyday got a huge salad & huge french fries. both really good. now schools are doing their own gardening as a class and using what they grow
@@wehavenotakebacks9363 Yeah, you’re fine for now. What did you expect to eat then something happen instantaneously? See how all that junk food is messing with your brain? You must be a child to make a comment like that, and I don’t argue with children.
I am a teacher in the DOE, and most of the school lunches at my school are healthy and great tasting. Kids are used to McDonalds and junk food, so they often won't eat it unless it's pizza or nachos. Parents often load their kids up with candy and hot cheetos for their recess snacks, so kids aren't starving. I'm worried about their future health, though.
Have you seen what kids throw away and what they actually eat? Some kids don't want to wait in the lunch line and some think they need more social time with their friends instead of eating because they can snack at home after school. Besides, they may think it's cool to insult the public school lunches. If the cafeteria has limited funds and they are restricted to cook a balanced healthy meal, then food waste is inevitable.
And the superintendent like one $100,000 raise! I like the world nowadays do a bad job & get rewarded, do a good job & you get slammed for not being diverse enough.
In my school in the 90s, we had lunch tickets. The menu was sent home a month in advance, so I could circle what I wanted to eat, and my Mom/me packed lunch the other days. If you wanted lunch from school, you got the card punched as payment or just paid cash. Why would you possibly take food and trash it if you don't want it?! Just don't take it! As older students, we served the lunches. You could just ask us to not put something on the plate if you didn't want it. I never realized how blessed we were to have a restaurant cook as the head chef (at least for lunch, snacks during snack time were still junk, no fruits). Yes, some of the vegetables and fruits were canned or frozen, but I still ate all of it, because I knew not to waste food and it was a balanced meal. Same private school today seems to give frozen junk food for everything. In fact, the DOE food in these photos with fresh vegetable bars looks amazing in comparison!
I work at a public school and see student lunches on a regular basis. They may not be exactly what the students want but they lunches look pretty appetizing and healthy. It could be that kids are much more picky about food now and they are picking and choosing what they want to eat. We did not have a choice when I was going to school and besides salad, I ate everything on my plate. Those kids did not grab fruits and veggie sticks when they got home. They went straight for the chips!
I stopped eating school lunch partially in middle school and completely in high school. Literally skipped lunch and went home hungry for 4 years straight.
I just want to say that even though you didn't get to eat something you liked, I am glad you made the concious and caring decision to just skip it versus trash it. Even if you didn't like it, others may have, and I'm glad you let them have the choice to eat it.
Been out of school for almost 20 years and they just now addressing this??! Brah… it’s been gross and seems like it’s gotten worse and smaller amounts.🤢🤮🥺🤦🏾♀️💔 poor keiki
They should've tried school lunches in the 80s. Interesting what I see the Olayan kids grabbing for after school snacks. Potato chips. Nice and healthy. Maybe she should pack lunches for her kids. You know. Like a mom does?
Great comment. Back in the day we had to eat what get. Other people around the world don't even have a hot meal. Count your blessings and be grateful. ❤
The Era when I ate food on Oahu schools vs Mainland school Foods? Was Oahu’s was so much far superior & beyond better than Mainland foods, & Oahu school keiki’s still complained even then that it was horrible? But? I think today’s Era, cost cutting budgeting finally made it to Oahu to make it even worse…. 🤦🏻♀️
I’ll never understand parents who are willing to pay hundreds a month on rotten school lunches their kids won’t eat but can’t save that same money and just pack leftovers from dinner or make them a fresh lunch?
In my country you pack your own lunch and of you forget to you o hungry.......simple......There is a canteen but the food is take-away and you have to eat it outside on benches......No specific sit down canteen area.
A lot of the pictures are either from breakfast and/or the kids ate half their lunch to make it appear as though they 'didn't get enough' if they're expecting some steak lobster or something and I can tell people this much that a LOT of kids are either getting distracted in the school cafeteria because they play around and when it's time to leave they dump a sizeable school lunch in the slop bin. Then the issue with the comments section is you can never tell WHERE these people are coming from. Bottomline, the schools thus far have been doing good with their lunches.
I was on the school lunch program and I always had good food. Milk, juice, fruit veggies were all the usual. Main food was lasagna, spaghetti, meatloaf, pan pizza, burgers, chicken of some kind, heck we even got ribs and pot roast. What happened to just feeding kids? It can't be that difficult.
Bruh flashbacks ladat. I remember I got one clearly punctured. Lunch worker refused for swap em, they were strict, handing em out individually kine. Sure enough, all maggots inside, loaded like chocolate oatmeal.
When I went to school, we actually had cooks and we have a cooked breakfast and lunch with actual veggies, fruits and meats. That was years ago, I am 58 yrs old.
I remember in elementary school, the food used to be ok and then something switched and the food was really good and closer to home cooked. After elementary, the food was bad or ok. But even my worst school lunch has NEVER looked like this!
I remember 1. In elementary school everyday was junk food day...pizza, burger, sloppy joes, nuggets, peanut butter sandwich, lasagna, canned greens, fruits in syrup and milk.... 2. 1st graders and 6 graders both got 4 nuggets....portion size was vèry unfair
Unfortunately my lunch line was too long in hs for healthy lunches, you would wait the whole lunch period to get food...and the nacho line was much faster and i still dream about them to this day they were so good😢
Interesting that mom complains that everything is processed. Maybe mom should do away with the unlimited junk food tower. Sure it’s not helping when they know they can wait a few hours and gorge on the garbage provided by mom.
In Korean schools, they have a designated nutritionist who constructs menus to ensure variety and a healthy balance of proteins and vegetables. I believe it would be beneficial to introduce this practice in Hawaiian schools for the well-being of the children on the island.
IMPORTANT FACT: You see that creature on the milk carton at 2:35? People think it's just a silly cartoon but that's actually the creature the kids milk is coming from. Fortified with Vitamin R.
My son says that it is very disgusting and that he almost always throws it in the trash, mentioning that sometimes it is raw. He also says that it is for pigs. There was a time when I prepared his food but the other students made fun of the food for being Hispanic food and the teachers never did anything about it. This is a never-ending story.
Sad but, True. The lunch quality is low. My kids are always hungry when they get home. When I attended school back in the 90s-00 , we actually had good food.
Says someone who never threw up as a result of what my elementary school cafeteria liked to pretend was a burger, and who never had to turn their lunch tray over to find out that their “turkey and gravy” had solidified into a gelatinous abomination.
The disconnect comes from the lack of land to farm and the lack of farmers to farm the land. How many of us were taught to farm in school? How many of us were brainwashed into believing that after high-school, go to college, get a degree and find a job. School is structured just like a job. M-F 8am-3pm, you get 2, 15 minutes breaks(aka recess) and a lunch break, all while forced to do(learn) things you don't really want to do, but you do it in order to pass and move on to the next grade. Hardly any life skills are taught and in the end it's up to us to go learn self sufficiency skills in order to survive. Schools have bred food insecurity by showing a lack of respect to farmers who provide the food on our tables. Farmers are amongst the lowest wage earners and it's hard to earn a living as a farmer these days. Until we start putting people before profit, nothing will change.
I think it would be a great idea to have a well-known chef design the food choices at public schools like some one from Roy's or Alan Wong's or a celebrity chef like Bobby Flay or Gordon Ramsay. I feel like our kids deserve a great meal at school that is both healthy and organic, this will be a positive thing that might lead to better scores in school or keep students motivated. A great meal translate to happier kids :) DOE like to cut corners, I think it is time to invest in our kids.
Not only that, best to ensure they are receiving a meal despite a guardians inability to pay. There's legislation already to prevent this yet in 2020 I recall a parent and teacher calling into the capital to complain of a student left embarrassed and crying from having their tray taken from them and tossing food into trash. I understand there's a lot of waste by students, but let's ensure we don't keep them from the access to food. Food taste , quality, and access? Wouldn't it be grand to make use of local land and producers, or help support new producers so the food sources are more heavily local and sustainable, like our stated goals? 🙏🏽
My daughter comes home starving daily. I start cooking around 2:00 because I know she'll be home around 2:30 starving like it's dinner time she said she literally throws away everything on her plate except milk
If only there was a thing made.....A box of some sort.....That could contain a number of food items to be consumed at the noon meal. It might contain a magic jug that was designed to keep warm things warm and cold things cold....Imagine the possibilities of what a parent could prepare for their child each day.
How much is your menu local recipes. Gets some ideas from local chiefs. Or are you buying a package of institutional food. Our kids deserve the best not the cheapest bidder gets the contract to provide the food.
“They’re not grabbing everything offered” as a picky eater I never did either. I ate what I liked but I not everyone will eat everything. I always went thirsty because I don’t drink milk and they didn’t have juice or water options. I only had a few seconds between each class to drink from the nasty germ filled water fountain.
how come there are so much non locals working in taking care of our kids....where are the incentive to get locals graduates to work back into our communities. We really need to get promote from within rather than from outside the State of Hawaii.
School lunches have always been a joke nationwide. My 3 kids get home made bentos. I have the time to do that, but not everyine has the time to do this. Kids cannot learn properly in school when they are hungry.
my mom used to pack our lunches and those of us who have eating home cooking/packed home lunches got better jobs and are more middle class than those who ate processed chicken nuggets and cardboard fries. well for me that's for sure.
Disgusting how we treat kids. Everyone campaigns on "protect the keiki" and then do absolutely nothing to help foster their growth and development in public schools.
My kids attend public schools and when I ask them what they ate for lunch at school , they say nachos and milk and an apple, sometimes it’s a cheese pocket with French fried and milk, mystery meat with frozen chicken nuggets…the American public school systems really needs to understand that feeding our children with healthy food is important and to teach our children about proper nutrition. I stayed our government waste money on foreign wars like Ukraine, Israel, and also fund those immigrant’s from south america.
This is what happens when corporate America gets a hold of what was formerly a State-controlled institution. Isn't it odd that anything that smells of socialism and equality gets dumped for investors' return on investment?
why is it non of those food grown here in Hawaii? yet we have super star CHEFS and our children our fed slops! our agriculture has the best organic farms why are we not using them local farmers?
As a gen-xer at boarding school from the age of 10 we didn't get to choose and complain. We ate good, nutritious, hot meals three times a day with no snacks and no sweets and no fizzy drinks. Moms can go back to packing lunches if this is the case.
Pack your own food. Our tax dollars can only give what it could. You should thankful that there are still free food in this country while children in different country are staving.
I was raised on ramen chips cookies and spam. I was 150lbs in 4th grade and could not find pants to wear at the store. Teach your kids to eat what is healthy and their brain will start to want it too. If you just give them sweets and salty msg snacks at home all the time they’re not going to eat healthy. The kids will be big body with weak brain and heart. Eat the vegetables.
I’m sorry, are we pretending that bad school lunches started in the Obama era? My elementary school food was GARBAGE, and that was years before his presidency. I’m not saying Michelle helped at all, but she didn’t start the problem, and it hasn’t gotten better in recent years.
Pack your kid's lunch, man. I had this happen once to me, and even when I did pay, I couldn't eat it cause I'm kosher and vegetarian. The school lunch isn't healthy OR filling for any age.
Do you have kids in public school right now? I take lunch to my son 2-3x a week because his school usually serves a snack for lunch basically pizza rolls, chicken nuggets, hot dog every week on rotation. Once a week they serve a real hot meal. So if your kid's school gets better food then good for you. But the rest of the schools need this attention.
They used to cook the food at school... No longer. It's all frozen. Pretty much the same as what we feed prisoners.
Prisoner have better foods in jails.. Prisoner get steaks and lobsters ..
@@mindy808aloha7 at a price, my friend, steaks and lobster usually you get only buying through commissary and trust me it better eating outside and school lunch rather jail and prison food in term of quality and money.
Not sure about other schools but that is not true for most schools I've went to.
@@aviationnine-tailedfox2216 no? My mother worked for the state of Hawaii prison, the waimanalo prison, and she can cook whatever they have over at the prison, so they can get steak and CORRECTLY cooked pizza and rice and just whatever is better than school food
When I was in school, we had shoyu chicken, pot roast and good deserts and it cost only 25 cents 😅😅😅
Mine 12cents was OK but Pizza Burger Day like 2 days a month on Friday.🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
And hot pastrami sandwich with fat. Pre healthy lunches
One of my favorites meals was the spanish stew over rice. On those days I paid fifty-cents for a double lunch.
They still serve shoyu chicken and even Korean chicken. I am not sure what school those kids go to but I work at a public school and lunched are not that bad.
Spanish green beans, army surplus stuff like peanut butter and raisin sandwiches, baked macaroni and ground beef. Juice time was 5¢ I think. Kids would love cafe duty cause we ate free and even got seconds if we wanted.
They pocketing the money
A snack tower? my god, I would have never imagined having something like that as a kid, snacks were a rare treat and if I was hungry i'd get some fruit.
Yep, and my friends parents would call my house and ask my parents if it was OK with them before they gave me a snack.
Looks like they don't cook any more. Can or prepackaged food high in sugar and salt.
Growing up we had a warm lunch that included a main dish, veggie and fruit along with milk.
Yep. I used to love school lunches. Now days my daughter says the lunches are horrible and most kids won’t even eat cause it looks gross. So I pack her lunches to make sure she eats. She’s in high school and does alot of walking so she needs nutritional meals to give her energy for the day. Lunches are not like they used to be.
Not all the schools are the same. Some of the cafeteria managers are lazy and won't even plan out their menu's properly. They are supposed to have healthy balanced meals according to the federal guidelines. Radford High school has some of the best food with only one cook and one baker. If you have a good and organized cafeteria manager, the kids will have good food.
only one cook and one baker for a high school sounds rotten lol. what if one of them gets sick? that isn't something to brag about.
The irony of this, she got full storage of TOTAL JUNK snacks for her kids at her OWN home....
follow the money. where are the funds going precisely/exactly?
I grew up extremely poor. I never complained about school food because a lot of times that was the only meal I had all day.
me too...i got free lunch...them white kids trash all the food...id ask them for milk before they dumped it
They throw away the vegetables. At my school, you can scoop your own vegetables. Most skip it. I grab plenty because I'm an adult.
i was so happy when my high school put in a real salad bar. everyday got a huge salad & huge french fries. both really good. now schools are doing their own gardening as a class and using what they grow
I went to public school in the late 70s and the food was way better than what my kids had in the early 2000s. DOE has to do better for the keiki.
Kids are used to too many snacks and eating out.
uh, this food is not healthy, it should be a normal meal not some sloppy mess
@@wehavenotakebacks9363 Uh, what the mother is allowing them to eat at home ain’t no better.
@@barbie6695 it definitely is? I eat like that and I’m fine? Actually, it doesn’t help nor hurt me
No, the lunches are bad.
@@wehavenotakebacks9363 Yeah, you’re fine for now. What did you expect to eat then something happen instantaneously? See how all that junk food is messing with your brain? You must be a child to make a comment like that, and I don’t argue with children.
Yeah, thanks a lot Mrs Obama !!!!!
Took the words out of my mouth
Well, if you give a kid the option of eating from a snack tower when they get home, don’t grumble when they refuse the lesser option
I am a teacher in the DOE, and most of the school lunches at my school are healthy and great tasting. Kids are used to McDonalds and junk food, so they often won't eat it unless it's pizza or nachos. Parents often load their kids up with candy and hot cheetos for their recess snacks, so kids aren't starving. I'm worried about their future health, though.
Have you seen what kids throw away and what they actually eat? Some kids don't want to wait in the lunch line and some think they need more social time with their friends instead of eating because they can snack at home after school. Besides, they may think it's cool to insult the public school lunches. If the cafeteria has limited funds and they are restricted to cook a balanced healthy meal, then food waste is inevitable.
Yeah, and some kids are embarrassed to be seen eating "free" lunch.
@therealclarkkent-ss7wh Seems like many would rather be hungry 🤷♀️ smdh lol 😂
And the superintendent like one $100,000 raise! I like the world nowadays do a bad job & get rewarded, do a good job & you get slammed for not being diverse enough.
yup. if the superintendent doesn't like his pay, he can step down. i'm sure someone else will take his place for that pay and do the job.
Not sure exactly what the " Not Diverse Enough" comment came from.
This is about school lunches not race and diversity
In my school in the 90s, we had lunch tickets. The menu was sent home a month in advance, so I could circle what I wanted to eat, and my Mom/me packed lunch the other days. If you wanted lunch from school, you got the card punched as payment or just paid cash.
Why would you possibly take food and trash it if you don't want it?! Just don't take it!
As older students, we served the lunches. You could just ask us to not put something on the plate if you didn't want it.
I never realized how blessed we were to have a restaurant cook as the head chef (at least for lunch, snacks during snack time were still junk, no fruits). Yes, some of the vegetables and fruits were canned or frozen, but I still ate all of it, because I knew not to waste food and it was a balanced meal.
Same private school today seems to give frozen junk food for everything. In fact, the DOE food in these photos with fresh vegetable bars looks amazing in comparison!
I work at a public school and see student lunches on a regular basis. They may not be exactly what the students want but they lunches look pretty appetizing and healthy. It could be that kids are much more picky about food now and they are picking and choosing what they want to eat. We did not have a choice when I was going to school and besides salad, I ate everything on my plate. Those kids did not grab fruits and veggie sticks when they got home. They went straight for the chips!
when i was a kid i ate everything...them white kdis would trash it
Meanwhile the obesity problem is out of control, serve them healthy food and they dont like it...
I stopped eating school lunch partially in middle school and completely in high school. Literally skipped lunch and went home hungry for 4 years straight.
I just want to say that even though you didn't get to eat something you liked, I am glad you made the concious and caring decision to just skip it versus trash it. Even if you didn't like it, others may have, and I'm glad you let them have the choice to eat it.
Been out of school for almost 20 years and they just now addressing this??! Brah… it’s been gross and seems like it’s gotten worse and smaller amounts.🤢🤮🥺🤦🏾♀️💔 poor keiki
Schools need to go back to cooking fresh, with fresh ingredients. Stop ordering garbage frozen stuff from these huge companies.
They should've tried school lunches in the 80s.
Interesting what I see the Olayan kids grabbing for after school snacks.
Potato chips. Nice and healthy. Maybe she should
pack lunches for her kids. You know. Like a mom does?
Spoiled kids. The woman being interviewed providing a free snack tower to her and the neighborhood kids says it all.
I noticed her BMI is big.
Great comment. Back in the day we had to eat what get. Other people around the world don't even have a hot meal. Count your blessings and be grateful. ❤
@@justinryanyadaoterrible comment
The Era when I ate food on Oahu schools vs Mainland school Foods? Was Oahu’s was so much far superior & beyond better than Mainland foods, & Oahu school keiki’s still complained even then that it was horrible? But? I think today’s Era, cost cutting budgeting finally made it to Oahu to make it even worse….
🤦🏻♀️
School lunch is obviously jail/prison lunch.
I’ll never understand parents who are willing to pay hundreds a month on rotten school lunches their kids won’t eat but can’t save that same money and just pack leftovers from dinner or make them a fresh lunch?
How about hiring people who know what they're doing and not a DEI hire
You assume Whites actually know what they are doing which is a silly flawed argument.
In my country you pack your own lunch and of you forget to you o hungry.......simple......There is a canteen but the food is take-away and you have to eat it outside on benches......No specific sit down canteen area.
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink."
A lot of the pictures are either from breakfast and/or the kids ate half their lunch to make it appear as though they 'didn't get enough' if they're expecting some steak lobster or something and I can tell people this much that a LOT of kids are either getting distracted in the school cafeteria because they play around and when it's time to leave they dump a sizeable school lunch in the slop bin.
Then the issue with the comments section is you can never tell WHERE these people are coming from. Bottomline, the schools thus far have been doing good with their lunches.
I was on the school lunch program and I always had good food. Milk, juice, fruit veggies were all the usual. Main food was lasagna, spaghetti, meatloaf, pan pizza, burgers, chicken of some kind, heck we even got ribs and pot roast. What happened to just feeding kids? It can't be that difficult.
Why will you serve a SPICY mexican food to an Elementary school in Waipahu. Majority of Filipino kids don't eat spicy food...
By the way maybe you guys should address the sour milk! How about as a start we stop feeding them stuff that will make them sick.
Bruh flashbacks ladat. I remember I got one clearly punctured. Lunch worker refused for swap em, they were strict, handing em out individually kine. Sure enough, all maggots inside, loaded like chocolate oatmeal.
When I went to school, we actually had cooks and we have a cooked breakfast and lunch with actual veggies, fruits and meats. That was years ago, I am 58 yrs old.
I remember in elementary school, the food used to be ok and then something switched and the food was really good and closer to home cooked. After elementary, the food was bad or ok. But even my worst school lunch has NEVER looked like this!
I remember 1. In elementary school everyday was junk food day...pizza, burger, sloppy joes, nuggets, peanut butter sandwich, lasagna, canned greens, fruits in syrup and milk.... 2. 1st graders and 6 graders both got 4 nuggets....portion size was vèry unfair
Unfortunately my lunch line was too long in hs for healthy lunches, you would wait the whole lunch period to get food...and the nacho line was much faster and i still dream about them to this day they were so good😢
Interesting that mom complains that everything is processed. Maybe mom should do away with the unlimited junk food tower. Sure it’s not helping when they know they can wait a few hours and gorge on the garbage provided by mom.
Bring back the pink slime and get it in all our lunches just like the 80s.
In Korean schools, they have a designated nutritionist who constructs menus to ensure variety and a healthy balance of proteins and vegetables. I believe it would be beneficial to introduce this practice in Hawaiian schools for the well-being of the children on the island.
IMPORTANT FACT: You see that creature on the milk carton at 2:35? People think it's just a silly cartoon but that's actually the creature the kids milk is coming from. Fortified with Vitamin R.
Nachos with cheese & beans is not a meal. That’s what they serve at my son’s school. I started packing him lunches after all the complaints.
The meat is gray because they don't add any artificial colors. It was gray in the fridge, so it was gray on the plate.
Ask him about the neon macaroni and cheese today! The one in the picture looks a million times better.
Ironically, prison food is actually better than the school food.
My son says that it is very disgusting and that he almost always throws it in the trash, mentioning that sometimes it is raw. He also says that it is for pigs. There was a time when I prepared his food but the other students made fun of the food for being Hispanic food and the teachers never did anything about it. This is a never-ending story.
Sounds like a poor excuse for not giving him nutritious food.
Stop feeding your kids junk food. It's unappetizing because there's less salt in the meals.
Remember the people who made school lunches law!
Sad but, True. The lunch quality is low. My kids are always hungry when they get home. When I attended school back in the 90s-00 , we actually had good food.
If you don't eat whatever is put in front of you, I don't think you are hungry.
uh buddy, its not prison, its school, you should be eating actual food not some skump waste
Says someone who never threw up as a result of what my elementary school cafeteria liked to pretend was a burger, and who never had to turn their lunch tray over to find out that their “turkey and gravy” had solidified into a gelatinous abomination.
Ah yes, because there isn’t ONE food your school offered you that you just didn’t like right?
@@wehavenotakebacks9363 They should be bringing it from home if they want to eat something other than what is provided.
@@The2ndFirst buddy due to inflation it would cost double the amount of money to buy food for your children to go to school and eat every weekday
My husband is in hospital in Canada. The meals here are worse. If you are allergic to eggs and don't like fish, good luck. 🇨🇦
Gotta love socialized medicine.
The disconnect comes from the lack of land to farm and the lack of farmers to farm the land. How many of us were taught to farm in school? How many of us were brainwashed into believing that after high-school, go to college, get a degree and find a job. School is structured just like a job. M-F 8am-3pm, you get 2, 15 minutes breaks(aka recess) and a lunch break, all while forced to do(learn) things you don't really want to do, but you do it in order to pass and move on to the next grade. Hardly any life skills are taught and in the end it's up to us to go learn self sufficiency skills in order to survive. Schools have bred food insecurity by showing a lack of respect to farmers who provide the food on our tables. Farmers are amongst the lowest wage earners and it's hard to earn a living as a farmer these days. Until we start putting people before profit, nothing will change.
I think it would be a great idea to have a well-known chef design the food choices at public schools like some one from Roy's or Alan Wong's or a celebrity chef like Bobby Flay or Gordon Ramsay. I feel like our kids deserve a great meal at school that is both healthy and organic, this will be a positive thing that might lead to better scores in school or keep students motivated. A great meal translate to happier kids :) DOE like to cut corners, I think it is time to invest in our kids.
Not only that, best to ensure they are receiving a meal despite a guardians inability to pay.
There's legislation already to prevent this yet in 2020 I recall a parent and teacher calling into the capital to complain of a student left embarrassed and crying from having their tray taken from them and tossing food into trash.
I understand there's a lot of waste by students, but let's ensure we don't keep them from the access to food.
Food taste , quality, and access? Wouldn't it be grand to make use of local land and producers, or help support new producers so the food sources are more heavily local and sustainable, like our stated goals? 🙏🏽
disgusting how we send money to urkaien and isradl but not our own schools.
My daughter comes home starving daily. I start cooking around 2:00 because I know she'll be home around 2:30 starving like it's dinner time she said she literally throws away everything on her plate except milk
Why don't you give her a lunchbox and make her lunch?
If only there was a thing made.....A box of some sort.....That could contain a number of food items to be consumed at the noon meal.
It might contain a magic jug that was designed to keep warm things warm and cold things cold....Imagine the possibilities of what a parent
could prepare for their child each day.
@@The2ndFirst she is autistic and she cannot eat cold lunches. I make sure she has a nice warm Mexican dinner back dAily ❤️🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
Some stuff is frozen but we do try to make stuff that is good.
How much is your menu local recipes. Gets some ideas from local chiefs. Or are you buying a package of institutional food. Our kids deserve the best not the cheapest bidder gets the contract to provide the food.
“They’re not grabbing everything offered” as a picky eater I never did either. I ate what I liked but I not everyone will eat everything. I always went thirsty because I don’t drink milk and they didn’t have juice or water options. I only had a few seconds between each class to drink from the nasty germ filled water fountain.
If thats who’s in charge of feeding our kids then oh man… we are in deep trouble.
are parents too lazy to pack school lunches now a days? i blame the parents
how come there are so much non locals working in taking care of our kids....where are the incentive to get locals graduates to work back into our communities. We really need to get promote from within rather than from outside the State of Hawaii.
They don't want to work?
School lunches have always been a joke nationwide. My 3 kids get home made bentos. I have the time to do that, but not everyine has the time to do this. Kids cannot learn properly in school when they are hungry.
Not everyone has time to take care of their kids? Maybe they should make time.
Looks like the same delicious slop I got when I was in school and I’m 34😂😂😂
im 52 and the slop tasted ok when your hungry
my mom used to pack our lunches and those of us who have eating home cooking/packed home lunches got better jobs and are more middle class than those who ate processed chicken nuggets and cardboard fries. well for me that's for sure.
Disgusting how we treat kids. Everyone campaigns on "protect the keiki" and then do absolutely nothing to help foster their growth and development in public schools.
Imagine if parents cared enough to take a few minutes to send their own children to school with
a good lunch.
I thought school was to learn not eat?
By the way the big portions and the salads and a lot of the things that looks semi appetizing here the high school or next to me says don't exist
My kids attend public schools and when I ask them what they ate for lunch at school , they say nachos and milk and an apple, sometimes it’s a cheese pocket with French fried and milk, mystery meat with frozen chicken nuggets…the American public school systems really needs to understand that feeding our children with healthy food is important and to teach our children about proper nutrition. I stayed our government waste money on foreign wars like Ukraine, Israel, and also fund those immigrant’s from south america.
This is what happens when corporate America gets a hold of what was formerly a State-controlled institution. Isn't it odd that anything that smells of socialism and equality gets dumped for investors' return on investment?
DOE is literally a state institution. They're running the show even if there is a contractor. A contractor has to
abide by the terms of the contract.
Unappetizing and unsatisfying 😢 come on hawaii!!!
@therealclarkkent-ss7wh 😂😅😂I mean betta den nawtin but still 😢
They should pay pandas express to feed them lunch. wtf else these kids want?
uh dude, this food is disgusting, and sometimes yummy, but when it comes to the yummy food its wayy to small and doesn't fill you up
It doesn’t matter if it’s disgusting🐒
why is it non of those food grown here in Hawaii? yet we have super star CHEFS and our children our fed slops! our agriculture has the best organic farms why are we not using them local farmers?
Cafeteria workers making good money my school days lunch was the bomb
I've eaten at many schools in hawaii and all the kids through away there gross food.....im not picking but i can't eat the food
More protein is necessary for these growing kids
Don’t bring kids into the world if you have to rely on charity or the school to feed your kids.
Where I live, fast food restaurants are the suppliers and kids look elderly and obese.... Take a guess at where I am. Lol.
Yep that is how it was when we were in school.
No wonder my son comes home eating everything in sight 🤦🏿♀️
I have white and brown rice for dinner, because that's what I was served @ Leilehua High.
It wasn't this bad back in 00-15's
As a gen-xer at boarding school from the age of 10 we didn't get to choose and complain. We ate good, nutritious, hot meals three times a day with no snacks and no sweets and no fizzy drinks.
Moms can go back to packing lunches if this is the case.
Gen x and speaks better than me dang. 🥲 I was such a dumb 10 year old.
Wow the food looks ono to me. When I was a kid, school lunch was alright and ono. Hmmmmm. Sometimes kids are picky eaters like my son.
Back when I was in school food was cooked not prepared. It also cost 35 cents.
Is Lindsay Rodriguez even from Hawaii....?
Was the person who first made the ukulele from Hawaii?
Kids should have an organic vegetarian meal option without added sugar.
Or they could bring it from home.
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Pack your own food. Our tax dollars can only give what it could. You should thankful that there are still free food in this country while children in different country are staving.
I was raised on ramen chips cookies and spam. I was 150lbs in 4th grade and could not find pants to wear at the store. Teach your kids to eat what is healthy and their brain will start to want it too. If you just give them sweets and salty msg snacks at home all the time they’re not going to eat healthy. The kids will be big body with weak brain and heart. Eat the vegetables.
Thanks to Obama and his wife for changing the lunch menu for DOE. Most of the food is processed food, Frozen and preheat
I’m sorry, are we pretending that bad school lunches started in the Obama era? My elementary school food was GARBAGE, and that was years before his presidency. I’m not saying Michelle helped at all, but she didn’t start the problem, and it hasn’t gotten better in recent years.
Pack your kid's lunch, man. I had this happen once to me, and even when I did pay, I couldn't eat it cause I'm kosher and vegetarian. The school lunch isn't healthy OR filling for any age.
@therealclarkkent-ss7whOR they’re busy with work or otherwise unable to make daily lunches? Not everything comes down to laziness.
Instead of complaining, why doesn’t the mother take care of her kids by making them lunches or teaching the kids how to make their own lunch?
That would be fine except they're being paid tons of money for food service for this slop.
Then don't take tax payers money
Do you have kids in public school right now? I take lunch to my son 2-3x a week because his school usually serves a snack for lunch basically pizza rolls, chicken nuggets, hot dog every week on rotation. Once a week they serve a real hot meal. So if your kid's school gets better food then good for you. But the rest of the schools need this attention.
@@Shy808 There's still nothing wrong with teaching the kids how to prepare healthy meals instead of running right for the snack rack.
@@barbie6695 Not every child in Hawaii is lucky to have a snack rack waiting when they get home.
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