Milk, Juice, AND Water

I need to give you all a little history before I go on with my blog today...Our oldest daughter is a PICKY PICKY eater...like so picky the kid doesn't like ketchup! Our youngest will eat just about anything you put in front of her...including raw onions. Every morning our oldest looks at the lunch menu for school and decides if she wants her lunch packed or not...the school uses PayPAMS, if you aren't familiar with it...we put money into an account set up online and when the girls go through the lunch line they tell the cashier their number and the money is debited out of their lunch acct. Anyhow...We put $100 in their account not even a month ago...Monday our youngest comes home and says "The lunch lady said to tell you that I need money in my account." What?! We JUST put a $100 in there! So the hubs pulls up their account online and we view "purchases." Ok...SO they have been spending $4 a DAY. Hi, we have two kids...that equals $40 a WEEK. (see i can DO math) We see the kids are buying breakfast EVERY morning...problem is...they eat at home before school...and the other problem is...there is NO WAY ON THIS EARTH our oldest is eating anything they serve for breakfast!! We see they are buying lunch, bottle water, juice, snacks, and fruit cups...umm hello? When did schools start selling SNACKS? I thought they were all about providing children when a well balanced nutritional lunch? While we aren't mad they are buying food...we are upset that they are wasting food. We know darn well the oldest isn't eating anything on that breakfast tray...and we know darn well they don't have enough time to drink a milk, a bottle of water, and a juice..and the fact that we know our kids dont drink that much! My problem is the cafeteria allowing a 1st grader to purchase that many drinks! And come to find out...breakfast is just social time...their friends eat breakfast so the girls are going with them and the teacher's that have cafeteria duty are making anyone that goes in the cafeteria buy breakfast! Grrr!! So we sit the girls down and explain to them that IF they are still hungry after they eat the breakfast we serve them they need to tell us so we can give them more, explain that just because they aren't giving the cashier money that their lunch still cost money, that it's not OK to purchase 3 drinks...especially when you have a water bottle in your backpack. We tell them that they need to get whatever is on the lunch menu and that's it, no extras because they are being wasted. Ok...enough of my griping...the funny part is...yesterday our oldest goes to buy lunch and chooses enchiladas as her lunch choice and the lady tells her "ok, what sides do you want?" and our daughter procedes to tell her "my mom and dad said i can't get anything else." OMG! So she eats ONE enchilada and drinks milk for lunch *sigh* I can ONLY imagine what the lunch lady thinks of us now....