Fed up with School Lunch

[Owlie]

I heard a story once on NPR about school lunches in France - made with locally purchased fresh ingredients - I want to eat school lunches there!

I'm not sure that rural districts can do now what was done when I was in school - the local game warden would donate fresh road kill or illegally harvested game. I remember looking through the slats into the kitchen in my HS to see a deer on the floor. Venison chili was on the day's menu.

That's both kind of gross and kind of awesome.

Ours were $2.50 or $2.75 when I graduated. I think the price has gone up since. Fries were a staple. And they were handed out...rather generously.

[malkin]

On school lunches that I see, the meat especially is so processed that I'm pretty sure my grandparents would not have recognized it as food.

[OakLeaf]

We were lucky if we got mashed potatoes with no flies in them, and a roll with no hair.

I'm serious.

[jessmarimba]

I'm so happy to have brown-bagged it through all of school. We would BEG our parents in high school for money on pizza day (Domino's!) but usually lost the battle.

Though with all of the restrictions now on what foods you can bring into schools, I don't know what we would have done. I loved (and still love) PB&J and we had cookies and soda or kool-aid fairly regularly.

[Biciclista]

my school lunch cost 35 cents and it was not subsidized (I should say, i wasn't on the "special" program!!!) who knows if it was subsidized then?!