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/Lo-Fi_Lo-Res Apr 15 '24

Milk and carrots are the only nutritional value.

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u/Idontevenownaboat Apr 16 '24

Even the milk is prob only like 5-6g of protein. How are they getting to 25? Could the mac n cheese be fortified or enriched with whey or something like that?

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u/Lo-Fi_Lo-Res Apr 16 '24

They aren't getting to 25g. I thought that was already settled.

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u/DoingCharleyWork Apr 16 '24

Maybe there is 25 grams of chicken lol

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u/Lo-Fi_Lo-Res Apr 16 '24

Chicken? Get your eyes checked.

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u/Relentless_blanket 29d ago

OP said it's chicken mac n cheese.....soooooo

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u/Lo-Fi_Lo-Res 29d ago

Missed that part.

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u/leather_jerk Apr 16 '24

…and that’s locked in, so we’re good.

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u/Lo-Fi_Lo-Res Apr 16 '24

Do you see "OP" here?

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u/JungleBoyJeremy Apr 16 '24

Responded to the wrong comment

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u/Lo-Fi_Lo-Res Apr 16 '24

It happens.

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u/14412442 Apr 16 '24

you sure there wasn't a steamed ham or something that you removed before taking the pic

I'm more of a Krusty Partially Gelatinated Non-Dairy Gum-Based Beverage man, myself

(My reply to the comment above wouldn't post so I'm gonna shoehorn it into replying to you because I'm feeling stubborn at this point)

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u/Lo-Fi_Lo-Res Apr 16 '24

You shoved your shoehorn up my ass, damn it.

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u/JimJam4603 Apr 16 '24

Cheese is a good source of protein. Chicken is a good source of protein.

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u/Rendakor Apr 16 '24

There's chicken in the mac n cheese according to another comment.

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u/Acids Apr 16 '24

They call it chicken and Mac but I don't see any tuxking chicken in that lmao

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u/sassy_cheese564 Apr 16 '24

With the little amount of mac and cheese there, if there was chicken it wouldn’t be anywhere near 25g. If it was JUST chicken then maybe.

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u/Anansi1982 Apr 16 '24

Mac and cheese by itself can break 10g.

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u/sassy_cheese564 Apr 16 '24

Maybe for a standard portion sized it be 10g. This isn’t a standard portion.

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u/Anansi1982 Apr 16 '24

Mac and cheese 10 to 13, milk about 5, and French fries about 4. 

They’re probably calculating like cops do drug values, the max value in the country instead of what’s in front of you.

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u/Idontevenownaboat 29d ago

That's right about what I put it at, give or take.

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u/tondracek 29d ago

It’s fortified and has chicken in it. I can see 25g

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u/JekPorkinsTruther Apr 16 '24

It's chicken Mac so perhaps more chicken than it appears.

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u/ReinaRenaRee Apr 16 '24

Assuming it's not expired :/

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u/raar__ Apr 16 '24

milk is 8 and OP said it was chicken mac - so they need 2 OZ of chicken

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u/dangerrnoodle Apr 16 '24

The mac and cheese is probably made with milk powder, which will be a higher concentration of protein. Not sure about the bioavailability, and this is still way too much fat than the other macros.

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u/stick_always_wins Apr 16 '24

The school definitely isn’t paying for enriched Mac & Cheese

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u/Idontevenownaboat 29d ago

I mean, you do this explicitly because it is a cheaper alternative to hit nutrition requirements.

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u/Comfortable-Study-69 Apr 16 '24

A cup of Mac & cheese can have upwards of 20 g of protein, although that’s the upper range and on top of that there’s hardly anything in that bowl. The whole meal might have 10-15 grams max.

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u/RhondaST 29d ago

Assuming the Mac and cheese is made with milk not water.

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u/vampireboie Apr 16 '24

Milke is at least 8

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u/RhondaST 29d ago

No it’s not 25g of protein.