Los Angeles County Outdoor Science School |
Please do not send any food, gum, or candy up with your child, except for
special diet provisions (see below). We provide 3 meals a day plus snacks from
Monday lunch through Friday lunch. There
is
generally
plenty
of
food for
seconds
and
even
thirds
for those
who
want it. Most students love the food - it is very "kid-friendly"! Here is the
menu:
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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(at home) |
7:50 am: Waffles, Strawberries, Butter, Syrup, Bacon, Juice, Milk Cold cereal also available |
7:50 am: Pancakes, Butter, Syrup, Ham, Juice, Milk Cold cereal also available |
7:50 am: French Toast, Butter, Syrup, Sausage, Juice, Milk Cold cereal also available |
7:50 am: Cold Cereal Buffet, |
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Monday indoor lunch 12:15 Pepperoni Pizza, Veggies and Dip, Chocolate Brownies (cheese pizza available for vegetarians) |
Trail lunch Ham / Cheese Sandwiches, Oranges, Trail Mix, Cookies |
Trail lunch Bagels, Cream Cheese, Jelly, Peanut Butter, Apples, Graham Crackers, Cookies |
Trail lunch Turkey / Cheese Sandwiches, Oranges, Trail Mix, Cookies |
Lunches loaded on buses Peanut Butter / Jelly Sandwiches, Apples, Potato Chips, Juice, Rice Krispy Treats |
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5:20 pm: Hamburgers, Fries, Salad Bar, Milk, Dessert (Veggie Burgers available for vegetarians) |
5:20 pm: Beef Tacquitos, Beans, Cheese, Salsa), Salad Bar, Milk, Dessert |
5:20 pm: Barbecued Chicken, Corn, Tater Tots, Salad Bar, Milk, Dessert (Veggie Burgers available for vegetarians) |
5:20 pm: Spaghetti, Salad, Garlic Bread, Milk, Birthday Cake (to celebrate all birthdays during the week) (Meatless spaghetti sauce available for vegetarians) |
Home! |
If you have any special dietary needs, be sure to let us know. Examples include food allergies, vegetarian or vegan diets, lactose intolerance/dairy allergy, diabetes, religious restrictions, etc. We will do our best to accomodate you, however, if you have a very restrictive diet, please consider sending special foods with your child. We take the diet information the first day and inform the kitchen, and they only make enough vegetarian options for the "registered" vegetarians, so if your child just doesn't like pepperoni, they can pick it off. Below are some common special diet needs we like to know about:
Peanut allergies: The only food we serve with peanuts is our trail mix, which the kitchen can make without peanuts for your child. We also serve peanut butter for one lunch, but it is not needed to complete the meal: bagels, cream cheese, jelly, peanut butter, graham crackers and apples, and there is enough food for seconds for those who want it.
Wheat allergies: This is more difficult to adapt our menu to, and you may want to send up food such as non-wheat bread as we serve sandwiches on whole-wheat for lunch each day, use wheat flour for the pancakes and waffles, wheat crust on the pizza, wheat spaghetti noodles, wheat burger buns, and wheat tortillas.
Vegetarian diets: We offer plain cheese pizza, veggie burgers, and meatless spaghetti sauce for alternatives. For lunch, there is only cheese sandwiches or possibly peanut butter and jelly as an alternative. Breakfasts don't have alternatives - waffles, pancakes and french toast are vegetarian already.
Vegan diets: This is a little more difficult and one of the times we recommend bringing your own food, such as rice or soy milk, tofu-cheese, etc. If not, your child may end up eating a lot of peanut butter and jelly!
Lactose intolerance/Dairy Allergy: This is not too bad, as mostly they can just skip the cheese on the sandwiches, and the first day eat peanut butter and jelly instead of pizza. If you like, you may send up some soy or rice milk with them. We serve cold cereal at breakfast in addition to the normal breakfasts, and on Friday morning, it is a cereal buffet along with mini muffins.
Prohibitions on pork: After the pepperoni pizza (cheese pizza alternative available) on the first day, the breakfast meat is pork (ham, bacon and sausage) and there is plenty of breakfast food to eat without eating pork, so this is not really a problem. We do serve ham sandwiches for one of the trail lunches, but students can have a cheese sandwich instead (let them eat cheese!), so again, not really a problem.
Diabetes: We have had many students with type 1 diabetes attend the outdoor science school, and we welcome and encourage parents to send their children with diabetes to our program. Our natrualists are familiar with diabetes, as is our EMT-certified principal, Kathleen. In the past, we've had diabetic naturalists, so the rest of the staff has learned a lot about diabetes from them.
Checking blood sugar and snacking is a normal part of the routine, and no problem. Although we can often watch over students with diabetes, legally we at the outdoor school can make no decisions about their insulin regimen, nor can we administer injections; either the student should be self-sufficient with their diabetes management, or they should have an attending guardian who is.
We provide snacks during the day, though we encourage students with diabetes to bring their own snacks, especially for bedtime, and juice or glucose tablets in case they are necessary. Be aware that we are at an elevation of 6,000 feet, and students at the outdoor science school are generally much more active than at regular school; both tend to lower blood glucose levels. Consult your doctor about insulin regimens in this different environment.
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Last Revised:
June 1, 2007
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