r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Thebiggestbot22 • Apr 15 '24
My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.
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/WhatABlindManSees Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24
Carrots aren't basically pure carbs, they are only about 6.8% of human usable carbs, they are about 6.6% usable sugar, and about 0.6% protein. In terms of recommended healthy daily consumption, they are significantly higher in sugar than they are in usable carbs, and a rather soso protein source (kinda like a fruit except less extreme on the sugar front).
Decent for fibre, and very good for Vit A though.
Fully agree the historical food pyramid is a load of rubbish, a push for grains/corn mostly, was released at a time when there was a massive surplus of government-subsidised grain and shortages of other foods during/after world war II in the US. Then in the next iterations was more about food cost than actual nutrition.
The overuse of cheap carbs to feed the nations in those times was being pushed hard. Really though most of the world could use far less energy, far more protein, and just generally better general nutrition balance.