My daughter was recently commissioned by her school's Student Council to write a paper on "How to Improve the School."She was stretching for a topic so I made the suggestion, "Why not write about how to improve the school lunch?"
My mind went back to about 2 months ago when I opted to eat the school's lunch with my daughters. The food was just plain bad. The nachos on the menu with salad bar sounded good! Unfortunately it was anything but.
The nacho chips were OK, but the beef was classic "mystery meat" and the cheese sauce tasted like it had about 25,000 grams of sodium. To top it off, the salsa looked like a 1st grader's attempt at strawberry jello mixed with ketchup, with a similar flavor.
The salad bar did not offer a very good option, either. It was poorly stocked, with only lettuce, carrot sticks, and apples. The lettuce was brown on the edges and obviously more than a few days old. The apples were bruised and unappetizing. The only thing that looked palatable was the carrot sticks, and they were gone before half the kids were fed.
So, my experience with the Public School Lunch program was bad. I feel sorry for the kids, but it's better than nothing.
For the Student Council paper, we ended up doing some research on school lunch programs around the world. The results were startling. I encourage you to read this enthralling article that became the centerpiece of the paper.
We are blessed in the U.S. But I think we should eliminate the highly expensive and failing school lunch program in favor of some of the ideas used in other countries.
BTJ
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