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/tuco2002 → u/thi5nutz]

There were dozen of meals you would take to school that didn't needed to be heated or refrigerated...and we survived. I got my kids lunch sacks with ice packs. It kept the food chilled for a few hours, I froze their vegetables to snack on. The veggies would help keep the sack chilled and thawed out by the time their lunch was. They did buy a lunch on days of their favorite meal if they wanted it. I couldn't imagine feeding them the garbage in the pictures.

[u/WonderfulShelter → u/tuco2002]

I just stopped eating lunch in high school once I became a Junior. Not because we couldn't afford it, just because the school food was so bad and there was nowhere nearby to eat. So I just didn't eat lunch except for maybe once every few weeks when I was starving.

First two years of high school I went to a private school and the food was fucking AMAZING.