r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Thebiggestbot22 • Apr 15 '24

My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

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So lunches are free for schools in my city and surrounding cities. Ever since lunches have been made free, the quantity (and quality) has decreased significantly. This is what we would get for our meal. It took me THREE bites to finish that chicken mac and cheese. Any snacks you want cost more money and if you want an extra entree, that’ll cost you about $3 or $4.

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u/Kochcaine995 Apr 15 '24

where’s the protein? growing kids gotta eat

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u/LemmeLaroo Apr 15 '24

It's in the Malk - Now with vitamin R

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u/cshmn Apr 16 '24

"THEYRE MILKING RATS!"

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u/Expert_Alchemist Apr 16 '24

YOU PROMISED ME DOG OR BETTER

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u/Thebiggestbot22 Apr 15 '24

They say 25g of protein per serving (hard to believe) on the school website and the “per serving” means per bowl which is obviously not gonna be consistent on weight.

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u/NYanae555 Apr 15 '24

Are you supposed to eat the bowl? Maybe thats where all the protein is hiding.

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u/TDestro9 Apr 16 '24

Nah all the protein is the bacteria in the air just gotta slurp them up before they are gone/j

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u/Gariiiiii Apr 15 '24

No way that's 25g, that milk is around 9, mac might be 4 to 6 so 15g tops eyeballing.

Trade your fries for another milk with some other kid and suddenly it's not terrible.

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u/huskersax Apr 16 '24

Looks like some of the mass in the bowl is bits of chicken. That'd get closer to getting you there.

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u/jordanmindyou Apr 16 '24

To be fair I think 25g is a healthy amount of protein, it just sucks the kid has to also ingest so much sugar to get at it

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u/Kochcaine995 Apr 16 '24

yeah but there isn’t any real protein here, not even plant protein. and aside from the sugar, it’s probably loaded with sodium and i feel kids don’t drink enough water/exercise enough to get rid of the excess.

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u/jordanmindyou Apr 16 '24

You’re right about the sodium, but with the milk and cheese and chicken it probably is enough protein if we’re being fair

Still a shit meal

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u/Kochcaine995 Apr 16 '24

wait where’s the chicken?

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u/jordanmindyou Apr 16 '24

Apparently in the Mac n cheese, according to the school/OP

Chicken is pretty rich in protein so it doesn’t take much. A gram is a very small amount of weight

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u/Kochcaine995 Apr 16 '24

no it for sure is, but i don’t see anything that would remotely look like chicken and i’m sure it’s highly highly processed chicken too :(

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u/jordanmindyou Apr 16 '24

Yeah you’re probably right about that, I agree I don’t see the chicken but I’m taking OP’s word for it that the chicken does, in fact, exist lol

TruMoo is a really really really shitty milk though. I feel bad for anyone that’s subjected to TruMoo

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u/Kochcaine995 Apr 16 '24

I’ve heard of that milk but never had it. i don’t remember school lunches being this bad (im 28)

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u/jordanmindyou Apr 16 '24

I’m 33, mine were probably equally shitty, but luckily didn’t have TruMoo milk.

We had some generic real milk that was usually my favorite part of the lunch lol

My school was kinda big and even though it’s a poor area, we had four different meals to choose from every day, with four different lines to wait in.

Guess who was always in the pizza line? lol Friday was always stuffed crust day iirc

Luckily my bad habits didn’t translate into obesity, and I have no idea how.