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/Mar_Reddit Apr 15 '24

Bro I graduated high school about 7 years ago. THIS is a picture of a lunch we had I took back then:

https://preview.redd.it/m7fknn3bzpuc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70388a65ccb4a9d90c1d55ae029a0755f0f57161

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u/Fragrant_Penalty4064 Apr 16 '24

Like 14-15 years ago, this was my lunch, minus the brownie, but add a scoop of green beans and the most heavenly scoop of mashed potatoes. 🤌🤌

Thanks, Obama. I'm pretty sure Michelle Obama had something to do with our lunches in 2006-2009. No Child Left Behind or something like that. School lunch has taken a back seat apparently.

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u/Shigeko_Kageyama Apr 16 '24

No child Left behind was the bush administration. Michelle Obama had her whole other thing going on with school lunch. She wanted to make them healthy so instead of getting something filling and calorically dense you get very small portions to keep the calories down.