School Lunches

School lunches are one of the most interesting food items one will ever have when growing up.  Half the time you do not know what is in the food and where it came from.  Also, you wonder if this food passes the Food and Drug Administration’s policy for food.  The food tends to bounce, be mushy, or hard as a rock, and look weird or taste funny.  School officials try to bring a healthy approach to the school lunches but I ask myself do they succeed?    

What I remember from school lunches is there was an option to what one could have and wanted during lunch.  The most memorable food choices were pizza and bread sticks  chicken nuggets and fries or onion rings, and the giant rolls or the giant cinnamon rolls.  Sounds like all fatty or junk food, and that’s true because all of the supposedly good food or healthy items tasted like crap and were not good tasting wise.  So, the only option was to get the junk food and be satisfied by the great fullness of the taste of the greasy food.  This happened five days a week and was usually cheap, just like fast food.  The healthy food was expensive and not worth it as a student to pay more for a lunch.  Since the food was cheap there was a need to get that food since it was delicious and was not too hefty on their pocket books. 

The question for school lunches is to get something that is cheap and nutritional.  This would be ideal, and I believe that for a school to have nutritional lunches they cannot allow the students to have so many choices of food.  Since there are numerous amount of choices for the students to decide from they go with what they want or sounds most appealing.  Instead the students should be forced to have one lunch line and if they do not eat the healthy food then they will go hunger, and eventually they will have the food and eat it every day for lunch. Schools then would need to make sure the food is approved by the Food and Drug Administration.