Update - Trying to make up!

Okay so I am posting pics from the last month. I got in way too deep and couldn't keep up. Once I had too many I gave up so I am just posting them all now. The file names are the dates, if you are interested. I am still gonna have to catch up after this but at least there is something to look at. I missed a lot of days because of spring break and professional development.

Enjoy

Just a word on this. They put it in school but it doesn't work yet. But I had to laugh at the bottom where it says "Eat Healthy Live Healthy" as they sell Flavored Doritos and Lays. Marketers are great at doing the opposite of what they say they are doing.

Tuesday, Mar 16 - Honey Glazed Chicken

- Grilled Chicken Breast w/ (what appeared to be) Honey glaze

- 1/2 Cup Rice

- 1/2 Cup fried plantains

Monday, Mar 15 - Beef Sauce w/ Cheese

- 1/2 Cup meat sauce (ground beef + tomato by appearance) + cheese topping

- 1 small potato (1/2 cupish)

- 1/2 cup green beans

Friday, Mar 12 - Fried Mozzarella Sticks

Yesterday I was gone working at an event and unable to get a picture of the lunch. Today I noticed a student with a very different looking lunch and approached him. He told me he snuck up to the cafeteria and got lunch. Apparently he knows one of the women who work there and calls her "grandma". I got a picture of his meal for comparison. Remember, both the regular lunch and the student lunch are made in the cafeteria, but the trays are all the same while students who go directly to the cafeteria have a choice.

Regular Lunch:

- 5 Fried Mozzarella Sticks
- 1/4 of a small potato

- 1/4 Cup of tomato dipping sauce

Versus Student Selected Cafeteria Lunch:

- 1 piece of flat bread

- large piece of meat (beef?) about 1.5 card packs

- Bell pepper onion sauce mix

- 3 potato quarters

- 2 Clementines

Wednesday, Mar 3 - Sticky Chicken

- 1 Large Chicken Breast w/ bbq Sticky Sauce (some lunches had wings)

- 1/2 Cup green beans

- 1/2 Cup worth of Corn Bread complete with plastic and ingredient label

I am sorry my phone camera isn't better because I really wanted to get a close up of the ingredient list on the corn bread. Needless to say, it is quite long.

Tuesday, Mar 9 - Grilled Cheese

Sorry for the 6 day at once posting. It is painful to post at school because of the virus and lag laden computers. Also I am just lazy. I want to keep it up though, even if it is going to be feast and famine for the time being.

- Grilled Cheese Sandwich (it always comes in plastic wrap... because it is microwaved? not sure)

- 1/2 Cup mixed veggies (corn, peas, green beans)

Monday, Mar 8 - Chick Patty

Another typical lunch arrangement

- Chick Patty

- 1/2 Cup cooked greens

- 1 Chocolate milk

Friday, Mar 5 - Lasagna

Actual lunch a student intended to eat in its entirety (not sure if they ate it all)

- 1 cup Lasagna (ricotta cheese filling, pasta, sauce)

- 1/2 Cup Mixed corn and carrots

- 1 PB&J

-1 Chocolate milk

Thursday, Mar 4 - Cheese Burger

- Cheese Burger - 1.5 card packs - (nothing but cheese, burger and bun as usual - the kids are always complaining there is no ketchup and Elsi says she has to "fight" to get it.)

- 1/2 Cup French Fries

Wednesday, Mar 3 - Chicken burrito thing?

- 1 large Chicken Breast about 2 card packs

- 1/2 Cup Beans

- 1 Tortilla

Tuesday, Mar 2 - Chicken Fingers

- 5 chicken Fingers (2.5 card packs)

- 1/2 cup corn

- 1/2 cup fries

Monday, Mar 1 - Cheese Burger or Ham and Cheese

Sorry for the extremely slow updates. I feel like I am getting lazy and making it a weekly thing where I post a whole week at once. We had a snow day Friday so no school.

- Cheese Burger (limited edition because of the Ham and Cheese, they went very quickly)

- 1 cup total Fries
- Ham and Cheese Sandwich

- Mayonaise packets

- Ketchup Packets

Thursday, Feb 25 - Pasta w/ Meat

Rumor had it that several kids got very ill from drinking warm milk in the morning today. Apparently it was sent down too warm. As for Lunch:

Variation 1

- 1 Cup Pasta

- 4 meatballs w/ red sauce (about 1 cup)

Variation 2

- 1 Cup pasta w/ meat sauce

- 1/2 cup pea and green bean mix

Wednesday, Feb 24 - Sticky Chicken

- Typical "sticky" sauce BBQ esque Chicken Breast - About 2-3 card packs

- 1/2 Cup mixed Veggies ( corn, zucchini, green beans, carrots)

- 2 pieces of plantain

Tuesday, Feb 23 - Burrito

- 1/2 Cup Black Beans

- 1/2 Cup chili meat mix with cheese

- 1 Tortilla

Monday, Feb 22 - Chicken Fingers

- 5 Chicken Fingers - about 2 card packs?

- 1/2 Cup Fries

- 1/2 Cup Veggies (carrot, zucchini, yellow squash, green beans, corn)

I thought I would throw in a shot of the cold storage container with milks and PB&Js in it.

Friday, Feb 12 - BBQ Chicken

Sorry for the late updates. We had a Snow day last Wednesday and no school and the coming week is off for Mid Winter Recess. I should be back with new posts on Monday the 22nd.

- BBQ Chicken Breast - (about 2 card packs)

- 1/2 Cup "Mac and Cheese"

Thursday - Feb 11 - Chicken Fingers

- 5 Chicken Fingers (about 1.5 card packs)

- 1/2 Cup fries

- BBQ (I think) dipping sauce

Tuesday, Feb 9 - Spaghetti w/ meat sauce

-1 cup spaghetti w/ meatsauce

-2 quarters of flatbread

-1/2 cup carrots and corn

Monday, Feb 8 - Beef Pockets or Chick Patties

Today we had the unusual food heater brought down. It kind of looks like a fridge and is on wheels. I got a picture for you! I later Found out the reason they brought down the heater was actually just because they ran out of lids for the normal tins. I failed to get a good picture of the buns (which came in bulk size sealed plastic wrap, if you wanted to know). Students were served on Styrofoam trays and were able to get whatever they wanted. The food did not go quickly, I am sure there was a lot left over.

The Heater, In action with the buns on the lower right

-Fries

-Beef Pockets
-Chick Patties

-Carrots and Corn

-Lettuce

-Tomatoes

Thursday, Feb 4 - Cheese Burger

- Cheese Burger

- 1 cup fries

Wednesday, Feb 3 - BBQ Chicken

- BBQ Chicken - about 2 card packs

- 1 cup fried plantains

Tuesday, Feb 2 - Chicken Fingers and BBQ Chicken

Between the semesters there was a PD day on Monday, meaning no students and no lunch. Tuesday was the first student day of the new semester.

- BBQ Chicken - two pieces or about 2 card packs

- 1 cup Fries

- 5 chicken fingers

- 1 cup fries

Monday, Jan 25 - Grilled Cheese

Sorry for the late update. I have been kind of behind. This week, Tuesday through Friday, is regents week. Students around NYC are taking their regents test in various subjects(a standardized test to pass high school). Students at my school are exempted from all but the English regents. Instead they do Performance Based Assessment Tests, or PBATS. It consists of writing a large report style paper on a subject and then presenting it in an interview format to a panel who judges it. Anyway, the point is there are practically no kids and school and therefore the lunch is extremely reduced.

Furthermore, I am at another high school doing professional development, so I haven't been able to take any pictures. Monday is a staff only day so I will be back Tuesday. I will definitely try to post the day I take the pics!

- Grilled Cheese Sandwich

- 1/2 Cup Fries

- 1/2 Cup Veggies

Friday, Jan 22 - Fried Mozzarella

Always a popular item, the fried mozzarella made another appearance.

- 5 fried cheese sticks(mozzarella I assume)

- 1/2 cup fries

- 1/2 cup tomato dipping sauce.

Thursday, Jan 21 - Meat Wrap?

On first opening the meat was tucked neatly in the tortilla...

- Tortilla

- Meat (unknown variety and flavoring)

- 1/2 Cup mixed veggies (carrots, broccoli, cauliflower)

It wasn't very popular, as evidenced by this left behind lunch with just 2 or 3 bites out of it.

Wednesday, Jan 20 - Curry Chicken

- Curried Chicken Breast

- 1 medium potato in curry sauce

- ~1/4 cup garbanzo beans/chick peas in curry sauce

- 1/2 cup white rice

One student said it was the firs time they had curry and thought it was pretty good.

Monday, Jan 19 - Cheese Burger

- Cheese Burger (burger, american cheese style slice, whole wheat bun)

- 1/2 cup Veggies (carrots, green beans, yellow squash, zucchini)

Friday, Jan 15 - Chick Patty

-Chick Patty(fried) on whole wheat bun

-1/2 cup corn

-1/2 cup fries