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Report on Buy It or Bring It? Your Take on School Lunches
Smart girls decide for themselves™.
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Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's gross. What are we talking about? School lunch! In September 2008, we asked you to fill out this survey and dish on your school's menu, talk about your lunchtime favorites, and answer that age old question: buy it or bring it? Who are the 284 SmartGirls who took this survey? We heard from 250 girls and 18 boys, mostly between the ages of 12 and 15. You come from many different backgrounds and countries, and you have many different opinions. What are some of those opinions? Let's take a look!
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When it comes to how often you buy your lunch or bring it from home, you're pretty split. Most of you either buy your lunch 5 days a week or bring your lunch 5 a week, though some of you do buy your lunch some days and bring your lunch some others. The majority of you don't buy breakfast at school.
When you do bring your lunch, most of you bring it in a lunchbox.
Who chooses whether you buy your lunch or bring it? For 220 of you, that's your own decision. For 54 of you, that decision is made by a parent or guardian.
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| Which would you rather do? Buy your lunch or bring it? |
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| More of you prefer to bring a lunch rather than buy one. |
Most of you don't sneak and buy a lunch at school when you've brought one from home, but a few of you do!
It looks like some of your schools' offer plenty of menu choices, though for a few of you, your schools only offer one or two. Guess you're out of luck on days they're serving something you don't like.
Overall, you think your schools' lunches are pretty healthy and taste at least okay.
When it comes to deciding what you eat for lunch, whether you're buying it at school or bringing it from home, many of you base your decision on taste, while smaller numbers of you consider cost and how healthy it is.
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| What do you usually drink at lunch? |
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| Water looks like the drink of choice! |
What is your favorite item currently on your school's menu?
~ "French fries with cheese"
~ "Pizza/pasta"
~ "Quesadillas"
~ "Turkey wraps"
What is your least favorite item currently on your school's menu?
~ "Anything beef-related or liquid or mushy"
~ "Chicken tetrazzini"
~ "Fish on a bun"
~ "Tuna sandwiches"
If you could add any food to your school's menu, what would it be?
~ "Larger variety of salads, healthier and more variety of options"
~ "Chinese food and Spanish food"
~ "Corn dogs!! I don't know why, but we don't have them at our school."
~ "I'd add sushi."
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with us!
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are not scientific because the pollsters cannot randomly select the
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