But over the years it became cheaper to buy from Sysco the premade dishes that just had to be heated. When my daughter was in elementary school the district built on a brand new kitchen and as PTA members we were given a tour - big ovens for reheating the chicken nuggets or potato wedges that the kids didn't like. Roasted potatoes in place of tater tots didn't go over well. I saw lunches, even back then, just going into the trash.
But the new restrictions are unreal - the photos look like mush or so meager I can't imagine a teenage boy having that meal for lunch.
School lunches have always been too heavy on the starch/grain-mostly because of that stupid and wrong food pyramid-that plate isn’t much better. But at least they really used to cook in the cafeteria kitchen-I liked the meatloaf, too...
My mom packed our lunches of real food, except on the days the menu offered something we liked-I did the same for my cub. I loved egg sandwiches best-a seasoned poached or fried egg on whole wheat toast-usually with some raw veggies and an apple or a tangerine from my grandmother’s trees.
Thunder thigh’s idea of “lunch” is a new low, though-not only processed and unhealthy food, but damned little of it.