Every once in a while...

...I read something that makes me realize just how lucky I was to end up in the school system I... er... ended up in.

Most recently?  Fed Up: School Lunch Project.

SHUDDER.  And also?  Eeeeewww.

Comments

[dangermom]

Huh. I looked at her blog the other day, and a good half of it looked better than what we got, so I was thinking she's pretty lucky. (They're still serving the exact same green beans though. O_o)

[April Mitchell]

WOW! I am so glad I didn't go to that school. Why is everything prepackaged like that? We had more buffet style lunches at our school and you could take what you wanted. I miss the burritos...those were so good! Oh and the square pepperonis on the pizzas. Yum

[Colleen]

I think it's an awesome project though - good for her to actually take pictures and track what those kids are eating. She's right; we don't look at this nearly enough.

I was in school 20 years ago but this looks just like what we ate back then as far as prepackaged, etc.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, it looks like the same packaging we had at my elementary school, in the 80's. There's a lot more variety than we had though. Also, I don't remember ever getting fruit or fruit cups, and we never had chocolate milk or bread on the side. Despite the horror factor, these meals look healthier than what I had, and that's all kinds of sad all around.

[Paige Y.]

I have vowed just the opposite -- not to ever again eat a school lunch at my middle school. The food trays on her blog were enough to give me nightmares.

[Brooke Shirts]

I think I'm most shocked by the packaging -- how much garbage does that lunchroom generate per day? But the food looks 100% more appealing than what I got. I went to school in central Georgia, so we got things like okra in our tater tots, watery coleslaw, and every Friday was Fried Chicken Day. While I appreciate fried food, this stuff was nasty, drowning in grease, but still hugely popular with my classmates.

[Elisabeth(YSPrincess)]

I was homeschooled. :D