Hello, this is not the first blog I’ve written on lunch and how bad I think it is, therefore you can conclude that school lunches must be a pretty important issue to me. If you did make that assumption, you are correct. In this post though I will be comparing school lunches now, from when my parents were kids. When my parents were in 6th grade, well that was 28 years ago, so in 1988. So first I will tell you about school lunches today. I’m sure you have had school lunch at least once in your life, and I’m sure you have your own opinion, but even so I’d love to hear your opinion. (Real school lunch from our school)
Back to the point, at our school we are given few (gross) options. For example on most Thursdays we are served mushy green beans, fat filled mashed potato’s, and RAW chicken nuggets. Let me
ask you this question, would you honestly eat this?
Now lets go back about 30 years ago to when my parents were kids they got to eat good food. I interviewed my and my mom said she would get baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, salt, and pepper. When we get baked potatoes, witch we rarely do, we get them plain, with sour cream at most. Even sometimes the sour cream is not there. Another one of my parents favorite foods was the school pizza. Now most everybody knows that pizza isn’t healthy and it is hard to make it healthy, therefore after Michelle Obama’s plan to import more healthy food, the food is now gross. The pizza back then was like the pizza you would find at Papa Johns. I really do think that nutrition in school lunch is important, but having edible and tasty food is just as important. I would love to hear your opinions in the comments, or even write your own post about it. Thank You!
Here is the link to more about Michelle Obama’s Healthy Food Options and Regulations.
Image in paragraph 2 by Ben+Sam at Flickr