Having A Beef

In the quest for continual improvement, my school district's webpage has a Parking Lot section that gives employees the opportunity to anonymously leave comments and feed-back for the district to consider.

I was surprised how many times it has been used to complain about the school's food service, especially concerning baby carrots and humus. Here's an actual post:

"Q - Why are we serving Carroteenies for 15 straight days this month?  Was there not a better option for lunches?   Also- could we not create better mixtures for our lunch menus?  Seriously- why would any kid want to eat Hummus, with Apricots, Carroteenies and taco pizza?  There has to be better options out that there that would benefit our students and still make the nutritional guidelines. I can't believe that there aren't other options." 

Although it's a little lower tech, the 8th floor at Mercy Hospital has a Parking Lot of sorts, too.

And people also use it to complain about food.

Happily, Grandma Deb doesn't share this opinion. In her most recent CaringBridge post, Deb wrote, "It seems that my appetite has pretty much returned to normal, so I'm eating well. Often hospital food has a bad name, but I've had lots of really good entrees like meatloaf with baked potatoes and baked macaroni & cheese. I can always get fresh or canned fruit, yogurt, iced tea - so the selection is pretty varied and everything I've tried has been more than acceptable. I'm just glad to be feeling hungry when mealtimes roll around. :)"

Charlotte doesn't have a problem with the hospital food, either. In fact, she has found new uses for the Emesis bags. Sometimes she slides one up each of her arms and becomes a "robot". Other times she tries to make one into a hat.

Speaking of Charlotte dressing, we're still working on the whole wearing-a-coat-thing.