This is what our children are eating if they’re buying public school lunch:
Curvy Girl friend, Ali Roberts, started collecting photos of regular, public school lunches taken from around her home state of Louisiana. The first school lunch photo she shared can be seen on a previous Daily Curve article, and the two above photos were taken by Ali and a local friend.
We’ve seen pictures like these before with Mrs. Q’s (teacher, Sarah Wu) Fed Up With Lunch blog, as well as with Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. But with all of the publicity on school lunches we’ve seen in the past few years, it seems that nothing is changing.
We need to change this. Something needs to be done in public schools to feed our kids better quality foods. But what can we do?
photos via Ali Roberts
Angie Lynch is the founder and managing editor of the powerhouse women’s literary community, Smut Book Club. She is a Native Floridian without a tan, probably because she spends her days hard at work on the magical internet. For the past several years, Angie has worked way too hard at building clout as an influencer in food and margaritas as well as being a source for laughable pop culture commentary. You can read more from Angie on her blog, A Whole Lot of Nothing.
Not as healthy as it could be sure, but honestly, what do we expect? School cafeterias, at least where I live, are small, old, out dated, under funded and staffed by temps. There is not enough time or budget for extraordinary meals. This is also just one of the 3 meals a kid should be eating.
I grew up poor and still am on the lower end and honestly these meals don’t look a whole lot different than what I ate at school and I didn’t get big until after highschool and I stopped eating school lunch in junior high! And for some kids, yes, this may be the only ‘real’ meal they get, but it’s a lot better than what they are eating or not eating at home!
I understand the concern over stories like the one where they forced a kid to get rid of the healthy stuff sent by his parents and things like that, but I am much more concerned with other areas of education!
That is a pretty bad example of school lunches, to be sure. In Massachusetts, where I’m from, it’s much different. The kids are offered a small variety of school lunches, including a salad meal, a sandwich meal or a hot meal. All meals include fresh fruit, veggies, milk and freshly made dessert. I don’t live in a rich town, just a normal white and blue collar mix town in south central MA. The school also rewards students who bring in their own healthy lunches. They do seem to make it a priority to try and get the kids to eat healthier. It should be a priority for all schools to try and promote that.
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