Nope admittedly I am too anal about food quality and nutrition and control to have to deal with clients sending food that makes my stomach turn having to serve to their children day in and day out nor do I want to deal with 'why does Johnny get KD and hotdogs or a 'lunchable' or whatever and I have to have a spinach salad with eggs' ... I dealt with this in school age programs watching kids get sent chocolate milk, chips, cookies, cheese strings and other crap daily so for me it is just easier to serve picky children 'small' servings of things that I feel promote healthy choices in order to minimize waste and keep my sanity by having control over what is served in my home.

I get that children are going to have to get 'used' to eating different things when they start brown bagging it for school but until that time I prefer to serve a homemade lunch specially in the winter months I want them to have a 'hot meal' verses a brown bag cause sadly many children do not eat well at home and well poor nutrition affects them in the PROGRAM too with increased behaviour and what not so I think of food costs as an investment in me having 'happy healthy children who sleep well during the day because their tummies are full of healthy foods!