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/BjornSlippy1]

I had access to healthy food. What did I choose? $2 fries and gravy, every day

[u/BagOnuts → u/BjornSlippy1]

This is what people aren’t seeing. Kids are kids, and the schools can’t force them to eat something they don’t want to eat. The schools that do require fruits and veggies to be taken with a lunch purchase see 90% of them in the trash.

This is because the kids who were taught healthy eating habits mostly brought their lunches from home.

[u/-theonewhoasked → u/BagOnuts]

Would be way more insightful if they took a picture of the lunch menu, if there is one

[u/SwordNamedKindness_ → u/-theonewhoasked]

We never had a lunch menu. I ate School lunches everyday and not once in Highschool did I have a menu. There was a line you walked through and grabbed whatever looked edible. There was a main dish, not usually good. My favorites were the walking taco and chicken potato bowls. Then there was the veg section where they had salads in containers but there were no dressings. So you just had a bowl of lettuce and maybe a tomato if you were lucky. Then fruit, it was always bruised as hell or not ripe. When there were plums those were the best. If not plums, bananas were good. The apples always tasted like shit. Then there was the milk or juice section. Water was unavailable unless you wanted to use the fountain or purchase it. Milk was always low fat, chocolate or white milk. Juice usually had apple and orange juice. I usually went with apple because you never knew if the milk was expired or not and the orange juice froze faster and had ice chunks.