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<channel><title><![CDATA[Celiac Disease & Gluten-free Diet Information at Celiac.com - Comments for article: Gluten-Free Menus in School: A Worthwhile Food Fight]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com</link><description /><language>en-us</language><copyright><![CDATA[http://www.celiac.com]]></copyright><generator>N/A</generator><webMaster>scott@celiac.com</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:42:26 PDT</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #1]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3048</link><description><![CDATA[Excellent article. I assume that any other food allergy would be handled the same as a gluten intolerance.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Jeff at 7:04 am, Mon 3rd Nov 2008)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Jeff)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:04:30 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #2]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3056</link><description><![CDATA[The 504 plan makes life much easier.  Mary has been very lucky. She has had gluten free lunches since she started in Head Start at age 3 and was diagnosed with celiac disease at the age of 3 1/2.  For any child in the public school system a 504 plan is the way to go.  She is in the 8th grade now and the family living course has been a challenge as it involves cooking.  Unfortunately for her she is the one breaking the way in her school district.  Now if I could just convince the school district to change the form they use for the 504 plans.  Theirs is all on disruptive behaviors not a thing on it about food allergies or malabsorption problems.  They were not happy when I insisted on certain things being placed on her plan and adding an extra page to it that I had done on our home computer.  This is also an issue that needs to be addressed from the federal level to the state level and then to the local level.  Thank you for letting me vent about 504 plans in the state of Pennsylvania.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Pam Shepard at 4:02 pm, Mon 3rd Nov 2008)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Pam Shepard)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:02:34 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #3]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3057</link><description><![CDATA[This article expands upon a serious problem. In our school district we couldn't even get an answer about ingredients in the tater tots! I am looking for support and ways to tackle this same issue!<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Barb at 5:17 pm, Mon 3rd Nov 2008)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Barb)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:17:15 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #4]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3066</link><description><![CDATA[I found this article to be very interesting, but honestly, with the concerns of cross-contamination, I wouldn't trust the school cafeteria to be as careful as they need to be. I work in a school system and am familiar with the cafeteria process - their main concern is herding a large number of kids through every day. I can't see them being able to keep everything separate that needs to be, using separate grills, utensils, etc.  Besides that, the quality of food offered in the school system is questionable to begin with. My daughter has packed her lunch to school every day since she was diagnosed, and often she tells me that the kids would rather have what she's having! Yes it can be a pain, but I don't think I'd take the risk of her getting gluten in her food just for the sake of convenience.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Sue at 1:16 pm, Tue 4th Nov 2008)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Sue)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:16:26 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #5]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3067</link><description><![CDATA[Nice idea, however, school lunches are not usually very nutritious.  Chicken nuggets? Pasta? Hamburger buns?   It seems it would benefit all children's health more if the emphasis were placed on improved nutrition of food, which naturally leads to less gluten.  That, however, if where the cost really goes up!  Fresh food is expensive, especially when so much of it would be thrown away by wasteful picky kids!  The bag lunch option looks pretty good to me!  How can we use our energy instead to get mandatory testing of kids here in the USA, like they do in Italy, so more kids are properly diagnosed, leaving our gluten intolerant kids not feeling so 'left out' with a bag lunch?  LOTS of the kids in the lunchroom can't eat it - despite their ignorance.  This frustrates me more than being excluded from the poor quality lunch offerings.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Jean at 3:33 pm, Tue 4th Nov 2008)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Jean)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:33:53 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #6]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3068</link><description><![CDATA[I've always packed my sons lunch, but interesting to think of fighting for him to have access to food at school. Thanks!<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Janet at 5:21 pm, Tue 4th Nov 2008)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Janet)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:21:28 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment3068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #7]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment4414</link><description><![CDATA[Wow!! this is really ironic as I just tried an idea out on my school about a gluten free lunch once a month just to see how it goes. I was diagnosed in march 2009 and I will be 16 on september 30th, and you know the craziness of being a girl plus worrying about this disease is hectic. The only people I know personally so far with celiac is a sub teacher in our school and a psychologist at my school. An adult told me about her and I talked to her she gave me great tips! Anyway I wrote a proposal and talked to my principal and then he took me to the head of our school lunches. His son actually had celiac wen he was real little but grew and changed and got out of it! She said the problem with this is she has to order food at month supply at a time which made me sort of sad.. just because of that may be the reason it may or wont happen.. but she told me I could store stuff in the fridge with a date and name on it but like what happened to you I'm scared they won't care or will forget and just throw it away. Even if I'm in 10th grade I still feel left out sometimes with this whole shabang! but I hope they get the word out about school lunches and a gluten free menu. I'm definitely showing this article to some of the staff at my school!! Thank you for posting this.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Alexandra Isom at 2:59 pm, Tue 22nd Sep 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Alexandra Isom)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:59:18 PDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment4414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #8 (Reply to Comment #7)]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21676/1/Gluten-Free-Menus-in-School-A-Worthwhile-Food-Fight/Page1.html#Comment4417</link><description><![CDATA[FYI: You can't grow out of celiac disease, so you may want to let your principal know that his son likely still has it, even if he doesn't have symptoms (unless the original diagnosis was wrong).<br/><br/>
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