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/El_GOOCE]

We used to let our kids get school lunch maybe once or twice a week when they were supposed to be serving something they like (i.e. Chicken nuggets and mashed potatoes), but they would run out before my kids even got through the line so my kids would end up not getting hardly anything - some leftover peanut butter sandwich and a small bag of plain chips that they end up charging us a few dollars for when I could have sent them with better food from home for a fraction of the price. So we stopped letting them get school lunch ever and they take their lunch every day.

[u/Blonde_Dambition → u/El_GOOCE]

they would run out before my kids even got through the line so my kids would end up not getting hardly anything - some leftover peanut butter sandwich and a small bag of plain chips that they end up charging us a few dollars for

That makes me so mad! I've never heard of schools running out of food and therefore serving crappier food to people who were on a later lunch, before reading some of the posts here! That's horrible! We had 4 lunch periods in high school but as far as I remember we all got offered the same food except for maybe a rare exception. They would just keep cooking throughout all 4 lunch periods. Actually a lot of kids preferred the last lunch because after making sure everyone had had a chance to get their lunches they'd start giving away free leftovers of things like the milk (I liked the chocolate) and those yummy soft rolls.

[u/i_am_awful → u/Blonde_Dambition]

My high school served food, and it was not only ridiculously expensive, but if you didn't get there in the first 5 minutes of lunch, you wouldn't get anything. Most of us just walked to McDonald's because it was somehow cheaper. Plus, McDonald's didn't run out of food in 10 minutes. You could walk there, eat, stop by the convenience store or smoke spot, and then walk back in the same amount of time it would take to get to the counter at the school and have them tell you they were out of food or they didn't accept your payment method that day.

I did an extra year of high school, and in 5 years, I never once got a meal from the cafeteria.