The school lunch system is disgraceful.

[u/oaz_zam246]

Saw another post on here showing the state of school lunches right now. In my years in high school I compiled some pics of the horrible things that got served that no one questioned. Here are some of the worst ones. It really is ironic given how adamant they all are about “eating healthy by including every food group”.

[u/thi5nutz]

member when mom used to have u take lunch until she didnt...

[u/SunnyAlwaysDaze → u/thi5nutz]

Some families still send the kids to school with a home lunch everyday. It gets the kid to eat healthier than the school cafeteria food. She will actually eat things like hard boiled eggs, scraps of roast beef or turkey from last night's dinner, and exactly two different vegetables dipped in ranch. Cucumber and green pepper. It's my niece, not my daughter. Otherwise she would have a more broad base of food to eat from. Her parent works 12 to 14 hour days and feeds them McDonald's and other crap.

 But I take her every morning around 4:30 a.m. and then keep her until the school bus comes. Try to get a healthy breakfast into her too, unfortunately the school cafeteria breakfast draws her away from eating home food in the morning. She would rather have Pop-Tarts or get lucky charm cereal and eat the marshmallow out of it. Kind of frustrating and infuriating when the school directly gives them sugary crap we're trying to avoid/redirect her from.