Leftover pot roast, potatoes, carrots, an orange and milk. Doesn’t sound too bad as lunches go.
But according to a set of lunch
regulations for children in Canada, the meal was not balanced enough as
it was missing a grain. The caregiver’s solution? Filling the grain void
with Ritz crackers and charging the mother $10 for it.
According to the blog Weighty Matters, the incident occurred last December, but the Manitoba mother is now speaking out about it.
When Kristen Bartkiw sent her children
to daycare with this meal last December, a message was sent home citing
her for a lunch infraction per the Manitoba government’s Early Learning
and Child Care lunch regulations.
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Manitoba mother was sent home with this lunch infraction after her
children’s homemade lunches were found “unbalanced” for not including a
grain. (Image source: Weighty Matters)
As a reader of Weighty Matters,
Bartkiw wrote to the blog that had she sent “microwave Kraft dinner and a
hot dog, a package of fruit twists, a Cheestring and a juice box”
instead, she likely wouldn’t have gotten dinged.
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