People who think schools serve healthy food are the same people who call nuggets; fries; and ketchup:

Tender morsels of free range chicken with a wheat crust served with pomme frites and a sweetened tomato reduction!

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It is unhealthy. Fact. It is only there because many kids wouldn’t have food or would have an even worse lunch otherwise. If you can give your child better than you should

I just checked our menu for next week. Chicken paella, chicken sandwich, taco salad, smoothie, apples, pears, pineapple., lettuce, celery, tomatoes. Yes, how dare school cafeterias serve these things.

If this is public school, while it may sound good as written, it is just wording. It is all Gordon Foods/Sysco frozen and reheated food. No matter, majority of kids will pick option 2 which is pepperoni pizza, burger, hot dog

That doesn't make the items different dishes. There is nothing wrong with them being from frozen either.

It isn’t the fact that it is frozen that makes it unhealthy. This is the case of Grandma making you meatballs and sauce and freezing it for you for later. The food they are serving is highly processed and/or made from the cheapest and lowest quality ingredients

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It isn't once per week. Kids are eating this daily for lunch. Add in the free breakfast schools gives out which is chocolate milk, cocoa puffs, Twix cereal bars, packaged muffins, everyday and that is a lot of crappy foods kids are eating day in day out.

The reason they have to give prepackaged food for free breakfast is because they are not allocated staff or hours to cook. Trust me, the food service program would love to offer different items for free breakfast.

I’m not blaming the schools for giving crappy food. But as the parent, if you can afford better food then you should feed them breakfast at home and send them with a nutritious lunch, then no I wouldn’t be ok with my child having the daily school-offered breakfast and lunch.