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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with the school food during the Michelle Obama push, was that it was bland, blanched and nasty.

The only lesson it gave to food was that "healthy" food was disgusting.

Plus the portions were so small and not appropriate for growing kids.  Even at the high school grades, the portions were akin to what one would feed a picky 3 year old or a dieting middle aged mom.

That "healthy" lunch program was so poorly executed, it was laughable.   I am saying this as a parent who had kids in a total of 7 different school in 4 different states hitting both coasts, the south and the midwest.[/quote]

Flavorful costs money. I remembers years ago a planet money podcast talking about this with food scientists at major manufacturers- it boiled down to cheap ingredients weren’t fresh and had to be masked with salt, fat and sugar to make it palatable. You could do fresh ingredients, but most Americans will balk at the price point. You can have it cheap without using salt sugar and fat, but the result is foul [/quote]

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