Hello everyone, this is the best place I could think to ask, and first time in so I’ll introduce myself.
I am a single father to a wonderful daughter who is in the second grade. I have a company and work from home at my own pace, and am thus fortunate to have time to be a member of the PTA, on the ways and means committee. Or at least I MAKE the time, the parents among you know what I mean. 🙂
I have thought of an idea that I plan to bring up tomorrow, at a meeting.
Due to conflicting events scheduled, the second grade class is celebrating their annual Dr. Seuss day later this month.
I thought of an idea. I thought it would be fun for the kids to have breakfast served that day, in the form of literal green eggs and ham. There are safe food colorings out there, and the scrambled eggs would be green. The ham, just regular sliced ham.
It’s just a thought and we’d have to work some things out and get it approved, including use of cafeteria, and have 86 parents across 4 homeroom classes approved it. I have a food safety handlers card from when I did something similar for her preschool class. It’s just the pre-proposal stage.
Of course, as you’ve probably figured out, I have some questions, and wanted to get some advice.
In addition to looking into other dietary restrictions, I know first hand that at least one family in my daughter’s class is Jewish. And we would need to accommodate each student, across all classes.
Since ham, if I’m not mistaken, is out of the question, what would be a good substitute? I don’t know if there’s some kind of pre cooked sliced “ham” substitute out there, like the soy turkey kind of deal that’s also kosher certified, I literally have no clue 😂. Then alternatives I’m thinking of could include some other meat, but then I wondered if it would bother other students if they felt like they were made to stand out.
My thought was to keep mostly in line with the title, in doing ham primarily but making sure each students needs could be looked after in a way that they would get just as much enjoyment out of it.
I ask that you give me some ideas to take with me into the meeting tomarrow as starting points.
How would you personally feel about approaching the accomodations? If you practice a kosher diet, maybe you’re parents, how would you want an alternate meal approached? As far as different meat, the stand out factor etc.
Any advice on how to approach other parents with this, en masse? It would be nice to have all bases covered when we send out the official notifications, and I have no idea how many more wouldn’t be able to eat ham for religious purposes.
Is there anything else we should know about kosher ingredients and cooking?
Is it doable, or is my idea a no go?
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