Eh, kids share and trade food all the time, regardless of there being a bucket. And kids dont hesitate to just throw away food they wont eat, especially if Mom’s going to yell at them for bringing it back home day after day. Just because you send it does not mean they will eat the food. So, the bucket seems fine to me, better to be shared than trashed.

As a parent who makes 2 school lunches everyday, I know exactly what my kids will and will not eat. It doesn’t surprise me that it’s the fruit that gets left in the bucket. I don’t send fruit without cutting it up, peeling it or making it more appetizing for my kids. Most of the time they will eat it if they can eat it easily…if they need to peel an orange or bite an apple, they won’t eat it. Send applesauce or those fruits in a cup instead.

But no….I think the sharing thing is a good idea. I wouldn’t change it.

Ugh, that doesn’t sound very hygenic, or safe. Kids with allergies can grab something without reading the ingredients and have an allergic reaction to the food they’re eating. Also, as a student, I wouldn’t want any foods that someone else touched, which obviously they could. I don’t eat school lunch for the fact that it puts me in an awkward position wondering who touched it or if one of the lunch ladies hair got into it. People in my school have found very disgusting objects in their food, ergo I wouldn’t trust anyone else’s food either. You should try as hard as possible to get rid of that bucket.

I do think that spending money on the food and then not eating it is disrespectful not only to the people who serve the food but to the parents who pay for it.

If it was eliminated then maybe kids would actually eat the food that they packed/bought or they would learn to not get that food next time.I am a student and I am more concerned about the hygiene aspect of this “box”.

I would want my child to bring that item home if they didn’t eat it. If I packed my son a banana and he didn’t eat it at lunch, then he could eat that for his snack when he got home. First, that’s money I spent on it for my child. and also-I teach my kids when they don’t eat their fruit or veggie at one of our meals-then that’s what they can eat next time they need a snack.

I would not like the share bucket!