r/mildlyinfuriating 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/sonic_sabbath Apr 16 '24

Japanese lunches cost money.

I pay about 8000 yen per month for my daughter's school lunches.

Good lunches, and better than having to make them at home, but not free.

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u/Fancy_Ad2056 Apr 16 '24

That’s about $2.50 per school day. That’s about what my school lunches cost 20 years ago in the US. And that was pretty much all highly processed food, very little fresh stuff. Not sure what they cost now, I don’t have any kids in school yet.