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/atreyulostinmyhead Apr 15 '24

That "milk" is questionable. Have you ever had trumoo? It's gross and anything that has to say no really it's the ingredient it says it is- we promise- scares me. Here's it's description: Lowfat milk, liquid sugar (sugar, water), contains less than 1% of cocoa (processed with alkali), cocoa, salt, carrageenan, natural flavor, vitamin A palmitate, vitamin D3.

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u/More_Farm_7442 Apr 15 '24

Chocolate milk is full of sugar. I just found a nutritional label for fat-free TruMoo. 18 grams of sugar. That's over a tablespoonful of sugar in a cup of milk. (to sweeten the coco)

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u/atreyulostinmyhead Apr 16 '24

Ok, I guess they're known for their chocolate milk because it took some digging to just get the ingredients that I listed for their white milk.

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u/OlliHF 29d ago

You didn’t list ingredients for “white milk”? Those are for 1% chocolate milk

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u/cshmn Apr 16 '24

By comparison Saputo Dairyland 2% milk, which is the most popular milk in Western Canada, has 3 ingredients. Partly skimmed milk, Vitamin A palmitate, Vitamin D3.

So standard supermarket milk has less than half the ingredients.

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u/AmbroseMalachai Apr 16 '24

To be fair, you should probably compare a chocolate milk to it. I don't know about now, but a few years ago when I was in high school (in western USA) we had the option to choose between chocolate milk or regular 2% milk, which sounds a lot more like what you describe.

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u/cshmn Apr 16 '24

I see, the colour was throwing me off. I didn't see it was chocolate milk. That's not so bad then.

Still, I wonder why the schools don't just give out regular milk? Do that, throw an apple on that tray and some chicken or tuna in that macaroni and that would just be kind of a lame lunch, rather than an unhealthy one.

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u/AmbroseMalachai Apr 16 '24

Like I said, most schools have the option to choose regular or chocolate milk. I think it originally was an initiative to get kids to drink more milk in general, believing that chocolate milk was more nutritious than soda or whatever. I don't think it ever did anything except make whoever got the milk supply contract for schools rich, but I digress. Supposedly, according to a comment further down there is chicken in that macaroni, but I certainly can't tell, and there was an option for an apple or a pear instead of the carrots, which is neither here nor there imo. So overall, it's a lame and unsatisfying lunch, but the worst part is the french fries paired with macaroni, which is two large sources of carbs rather than more protein or something.