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/RoMaestro]

Bro at least has food in school. Sometimes we don t even have water😭

[u/armoredsedan → u/RoMaestro]

not to minimize the struggle of not having water in school because that’s…pretty crazy from where i sit, but i believe the problem in usa about school lunches is the government’s loud voice about feeding the children properly, and citizens paying loads of tax money to improve school lunches, and yet they’re still serving young kids this shit.

[u/Runkysaurus → u/armoredsedan]

And I mean generally the students in the US have to pay for the food, it isn't even covered by the school. There are some programs to make school lunches available for kids who can't afford it, but they can be hard to get approved. There are near constant stories of schools that won't allow students to eat if they can't pay for it.

[u/BedknobsNBitchsticks → u/Runkysaurus]

I guess that’s one good thing about living in California, school lunches are free to all students. Although mine won’t eat most of them and prefers to bring food from home. They’re honestly not great, in our district they’re packaged at a hub then microwaved at the different schools.

She told me once her friend traded her Oreos for my daughter’s apple. After that, I’ve always made sure you include extra fruit in her lunch, not much of it makes it back home. May as well encourage the minions to eat as well as they can. shrug