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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't find vegetables more expensive. Have you taken a look at how cheap beets are? Or cabbages? Why can't schools buy vegetables from wholesale producers and prepare those instead of getting the packaged garbage?[/quote]

Beets and cabbages??

Vegetables perish quickly. Schools would have to order them more often than frozen, which makes them more expansive. [/quote]

It just so happens that beets and cabbage are two vegetables with a long shelf life.

But that is what food in schools must be. Cooked on-site from fresh by on-aite personnel whose job is cooking, not reheating like a flight attendent. I'm so sorry that this wasn't the case for you or your children.  Many countries, rich and poor, manage to do that. That's how you feed children a nutrition and varied diet, and how you teach them to eat a nutritious and varied diet.[/quote]

I haven’t seen a single person here disagree that school lunch needs to be healthier, but it reeks of privilege to complain without looking at the larger issue. We, as a society, do not provide schools with enough funding to do as suggested. Fresh, healthy food is expensive, despite your personal belief, and a great deal of people who are on strict budgets don’t buy fresh food for that reason. Why spend several dollars on apples when you can get ramen for $1 a bag, which could feed you for several meals? Healthy food is not easily accessible to everyone in this country. If you want it to be accessible to children through public schools, they’ll need to reallocate federal funding to school lunch programs.

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