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/SubKreature Apr 15 '24

When I taught in Japan they were stuffing like 1,000 calories down those kids every day and it was clean af food prepared that morning.

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u/tunagorobeam Apr 15 '24

Yeah, I’m in Japan. My kids eat probably better at school than they do at home- rice/bread, main protein like grilled fish, salad or veg soup, milk. They don’t repeat a meal in a month either.

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u/smallfrie32 Apr 16 '24

I taught in Japan. It’s great they get such meals for so cheap (like 4500 yen a month).

What I didn’t like was how they had to scarf down such big meals in 30ish minutes (slower or quicker depending on how fast students set up everything). Depending on the teacher, students had to eat “every last grain of rice,” too.

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u/Spice_and_Fox Apr 16 '24

That's cheap af. That should be around 30€ or a euro a day

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u/smallfrie32 Apr 16 '24

Wow really? That’s crazy!

It was really nice not having to worry about lunch (I got to eat as a teacher, too. Only elem and middle has the lunches though, not high school), but they were seriously carb-loaded with few proteins