Do you keep snacks in your office?

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Saltine crackers only. Be very careful with food allergies as someone else mentioned.

Specializes in School nursing.

I keep saltines (always safe) and graham crackers (after reading several labels). I also have apple juice. I have way too many kids that don't eat breakfast or miss the school breakfast because they arrive late. Since I deal with 7-12th grades, the kids usually get themselves to school and have a parent that usually is at work before they leave, so can't always monitor that they are out the door on time...

I used to get stuff from the breakfast program, but we monitor it closely here and keep numbers close to usage to avoid waste. We have started bagging breakfast for those on free or reduced lunch that miss it in the morning so they can claim in later vs. coming to my office. But that is new this year, so the kids haven't gotten used to that.

Rubor

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Specializes in School Nurse, Pediatrics, Surgical.

I would do Saltines and take it out of my health room budget. But I don't supply anything else. I don't want to start a habit of the kiddo's/staff for coming to get food from us. If I find out a kiddo hasn't eaten I will ask the cafeteria and a lot of the times its a sandwich or something along those lines they will give out. This has only happened at my primary school.

AdobeRN

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Cafe manager started to save the unopened items for me - I now have a fridge FULL of orange/apple juice, milk & choc milk, cracker, chips etc. This idea is working great for me.

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