Talking School Lunch With a Lunch Lady, aka Cara Wade @ButterfaceLunchLady
Didn't I Just Feed You
Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Over the last decade, the perception of school lunch has been marred by questions — posed by high profile folks including Jamie Oliver and Michelle Obama — about quality of ingredients and nutritional value of offered meals. At the same time, the program is a lifeline for many families. We speak to Cara Wade, aka Butterface Lunch Lady, about what goes into to planning, cooking, and feeding a school full of children.
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- Cara on Instagram, @butterfacelunchlady
- Cara on TikTok, @butterfacelunchlady
- Cara’s website, where you can grab some of her recipes and contact info
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| 0:00.0 | I finally gave up on my meatloaf, but it was so good. |
| 0:07.0 | And they just didn't care for it at all. |
| 0:11.0 | And I think it's always just familiarity. |
| 0:14.0 | They're not out to a restaurant. They're just in the middle of their school day. |
| 0:17.0 | They just wanted to get some food in their belly. |
| 0:19.0 | They're not looking to have some life-changing |
| 0:22.3 | experience like a large table. Welcome to Didn't I Just Feed You, a podcast about feeding kids. |
| 0:31.8 | Hi, I'm Megan and I'm Stacy. You guys, over the many years we've been doing, didn't I just feed you, we have talked |
| 0:41.5 | a lot about packing school lunches. |
| 0:43.4 | That doesn't even count the many, many, many, many years that Megan and I have talked |
| 0:48.6 | about it in articles to parents over the course of our career. |
| 0:52.7 | And we recently shared our best tips from all of that |
| 0:55.7 | experience with our bonus episode subscribers. But we've also had experts like Catherine |
| 1:01.1 | McCord of Weelicious, a school teacher, and so many more on the show. So you want to go back |
| 1:07.0 | in the archive, number one, and listen to them all. Also, if you have Spotify, |
| 1:11.9 | you can search for Didn't I Just Feed You. And our user profile also has favorites lists, |
| 1:17.2 | and we have a back-to-school list there. But the one thing we've never done in all of this is just |
| 1:22.7 | really like dig into cafeteria school lunches, like not packing, just cafeteria school lunches. |
| 1:29.8 | What go into it? Do your kids do that? Do they eat the cafeteria school lunch? What was your |
| 1:34.5 | experience? Yes. And the thing that I find the most strange about us having never really done a deep |
| 1:41.1 | dive into hot lunch or cafeteria lunch, however you like to call it, |
| 1:45.5 | is that we actually define the first step of school lunch decision making as deciding |
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