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

Thursday, Jan 14 - Grilled Chicken

-Grilled Chicken (approximately 1.5 card packs) with sauce (bbq? enchilada?)

-1/2 cup "spanish" rice

-1/2 cup black beans with the occasional onion and bell pepper chunk.

Tuesday, Dec 12 - Pasta

Finally getting back in the groove

-Penne Pasta with meat sauce and parmesan cheese

-1/2 Cup mixed veggies (carrot, green beans, yellow squash)

- Baby Carrots in a bag

Monday, Jan 12 - Chick Patty or Ham and Cheese Sandwich

Today Kids had a couple options. The usual PB&Js were back along with ham and cheese sandwiches as well as the ubiquitous chick patty.

-Ham and Cheese Sandwich (no condiments)

-Chick Patty

-1/2 Cup Fries

-1/2 Cup Spinach

I thought I would throw in a picture of the trash in the classroom lunch was served in.

Friday, Jan 8 - Pizza everywhere

Today something that rarely happens did. They brought down a cafeteria worker with a hot cart (tall fridge that keeps food warm, sorry I didn't get the pic). In the cart there were many different types of pizza the cafeteria worker served to kids. Each student got one slice or a personal sized pizza. The kids LOVED it everything but the spinach ran out quickly. Milk was the only other item served for lunch that day (not even the usual PB&Js)

Spinach Tomato

MeatBall

Pepperoni (personal size)

Mixed Vegetable (broccoli, onions, mushrooms, olives, bell pepper)

Cheese

Wednesday, Jan 6 - Burrito Fixings

Happy New Year!

Okay So I am posting a bit late. I took off a couple days of work and that is why my first post of the new year is falling on a Wednesday.

- Tortilla

- 1/2 Cup black beans

- 1/2 Cup ground beef in tomato sauce mixture