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No Fuss Lunch is a mission for Ridgewood mom
No Fuss Lunch is a mission for Ridgewood mom
OCTOBER 7, 2014 LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2014, 1:21 AM BY KARA YORIO STAFF WRITER THE RECORD
Amelie Wilday was coming home “weepy, cranky, tired and hungry,” according to her mother, Gaby. It was two years ago, halfway through the first month of first grade, and something was not right with the Ridgewood 6-year-old. Gaby Wilday, who had ordered Amelie’s lunch through the school’s food provider, asked her daughter to bring home what she wasn’t eating.”That’s when I noticed she just wasn’t eating,” said Wilday. Amelie didn’t like the food, and her mother didn’t like the quality. She also noticed the Wildays must not have been alone, as there were many lunches from outside food vendors being dropped off at Ridgewood schools.Already with a commercial kitchen for a sauce business, she decided to see if she could create a better school lunch model. She started with seven lunches, which she gave to a group of families for free in return for feedback. She ended up hearing from many more than those seven.
“By November 1st, I was getting emails from principals, PTO presidents, parents from other schools,” she said.
11 thoughts on “No Fuss Lunch is a mission for Ridgewood mom”
Anonymous
It’s up to parents to teach their kids to make and bring own lunch to school.
Teaches lessons that are apparently not important to Ridgewood parents: self-reliance, nutrition, time scheduling , independence thrift.. Especially thrift. Not needed here.
It’s up to parents to teach their kids to make and bring own lunch to school.
Teaches lessons that are apparently not important to Ridgewood parents: self-reliance, nutrition, time scheduling , independence thrift.. Especially thrift. Not needed here.
Teach their kids to make their lunch?
That’s pretty funny..,.,
#1 apparently your ignorance hasn’t changed since the last time this was a topic.
If your kid can’t make his or her own lunch by the time he or she is 10 you need to get your act together as a parent
Good lick to you.
The article doesn’t mention her lawsuit against the BOE. Has that been settled or withdrawn? Why would we patronize an organization suing us?
Teach kids to make quality food. Don’t teach them to get take out!
James, what’s wrong with a kid making their lunch? My kids did it once in a while by choice… what’s the judgemental stuff?
I am 100% for kids making there own lunch it , you must have misunderstood my comment , sorry the previous comment was edited incorrectly
yep, misread- apologies
actually I am glad you mentioned it