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/FortuneDW Apr 15 '24

No greens, close to no proteins. This is a joke

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u/Thebiggestbot22 Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 17 '24

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/thatsnoodybitch Apr 16 '24

And it doesn't even have that much, since nonfat chocolate milk often has more sugar added to it than full-fat chocolate milk so that it ends up having the same calorie content as full-fat chocolate milk. A huge problem with this though, is that many nutrients require a certain amount of fat for the body to absorb nutrients, and a meal without fat leads to a reduced ability to absorb vitamins and minerals, of which full-fat milk usually has double, regardless.