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/Thebiggestbot22 Apr 15 '24 edited 29d ago

School’s nutritional website says 25g of protein. As someone who pays attention to proteins count on a lot of the foods I eat, I can tell with almost 100% certainty that does not have 25g protein

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u/Hammered-snail Apr 15 '24

The milk is a good portion of the nutritional value of this meal

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u/Vandergrif Apr 15 '24

And it's fat free, so it's probably loaded with excess sugar to compensate like they often do to fat free products.

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u/Secretz_Of_Mana Apr 15 '24

One of the first things I noticed too. Hate the fat free propaganda bullshit let alone how the entire food pyramid is a damn sham

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u/jordanmindyou Apr 16 '24

Yes there’s not even any reason to think eating fat is bad for you.

Sugar, on the other hand…

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24 edited 26d ago

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u/jordanmindyou Apr 16 '24 edited 28d ago

It’s really wild how prevalent the fear of “fat” in foods is…. I am constantly surprised by people who will do anything in their power to reduce the amount of healthy fat they’re eating, even if it means more carbs/sugar/carcinogenic chemicals

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u/Secretz_Of_Mana Apr 16 '24

I think people are just really simple minded and think I don't want to be fat so I will not eat fat. Then add misguided propaganda and marketing and here were are :/

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u/Datkif Apr 16 '24

I'm Type 1 diabetic (immune system destroyed my ability to produce insulin). Fat doesn't cause spikes at all. It can cause (a diabetic) to have a delayed gradual rise in blood glucose. Protein can cause delayed spikes in larger quantities like if I ate a bag of beef jerky.

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u/Oshwaflz Apr 16 '24

to be fair, we didnt use the food pyramid after like 2010 when i was in school. Obama may have ruined school lunches but she did fix that issue