How Have School Lunches Changed

Now, for the final, and more of a less known issue is how our schools have the order of lunch every week. For most people, it gets boring and repetitive when we have to eat the same food over and over again. The only thing they change is the fruits and maybe the chips, but that is it! Chicken sandwich, steak nuggets, tacos, nachos, pizza, repeat. It is not even the good kind of pizza or nachos, it is just some weird, fake, manufactured food. Since we eat the same food every week, it the same uncooked, cold chunks in the food that we bite into all of the time. The worst part is that sometimes on mondays, they give us leftovers, and look brand new! That is how you know they are

One of the most controversial issues today is the question of how to address childhood obesity. Because of the large proportion of meals that children, particularly low-income children, consume in schools, cafeteria food has been targeted by dietary reformers as in need of a major overhaul. However, while many different types of new school menus have been proposed, the extent to which healthier foods can be offered remains controversial. Opponents to reform state that children will not eat healthier lunches, and that changing the food that children eat will have minimal impact, since the children will either bring food from home or eat food at home that is more 'kid friendly.'

School cafeterias have been notoriously known for having unhealthy, unappealing food. Students at schools are being forced to eat these foods, when parents cannot provide regular lunches for their children. These lunches usually include the following: pizza, soda, cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, and others, all filled with artificial ingredients and preservatives. To address this problem, there should be a switch between the foods and drinks being served, and I have just the ideas that will be delicious and healthy. Authors Alice Waters, Katrina Heron, and Mark Bittman all agree that some initiative needs to be taken to fix this unhealthy food problem, and so do I. Together, the student body and parents will address the school board with healthier food options that are better tasting and better for the body.

"Tick tock, tick tock. It is 20 minutes until lunch but I am starving!" Some days in high school I would have lunch at 11:00 a.m., or the next day it would be 1:20 p.m.. I would be starving. When I should have been paying attention to class I was not because I was more focused on how hungry I was and how long it was until it was time to eat. Yet, when getting to lunch, the meals seems to not have enough to fill my stomach up or it was so gross I did not even dare to take a second bite. People are misinformed on school lunches due to the fact they do not know what is being served or why exactly what is being served is being served. Not eating and eating too much of the wrong stuff are all problems of childhood hunger. Recently when students go to lunch their meals are being based off of Children Nutrition Programs or a different type of health related program.

Next is it being a waste of time fixing the food. It is a waste of time because it is not getting eaten by the students. The reason why it is getting wasted and thrown away is because they do not like the food you switched it to. Some people may believe that it is a good idea to change school lunch because it would be better for everyone. However, it is not a good

Do you know that school lunch is bad for children? Have you ever packed lunch because the food looks fattening or gross? Do you want healthier food? Has school lunch ever made your tummy hurt? I believe school lunch is bad for children because they serve food that is fattening which causes obesity, food that causes stomach viruses that will cause students to get sick and does not feed children enough.

Students have become more restricted than ever when it comes to picking the food they want to eat in the cafeteria, most of the food is healthy and has the essential vitamins and calories a student would need. The healthy hunger free kids act was implemented in 2012 and took away the use of grease, high sodium products and more. This aimed to yes take away all the tastier foods but also to try to opt for a more balanced and healthy lunch. When a student purchases a lunch, they are encouraged to take at least one fruit or vegetable and a low-fat milk. However, most of these “required foods” end up in the trash. Most of the time it’s a hit or miss with school lunches because not all school operate the same.

After the government has recently introduced new lunch restrictions, many schools say they would be better off leaving the program entirely, instead of paying the millions on extra healthy food, just for it to be thrown away. Some people think that the new restrictions that have been made on lunches are a good thing, while other people think that it is wasteful and unnecessary. School lunches are a big part of a students day and are changing for better or worse all the time. The obama administration had made one of the strictest plans for school lunches, these are the some of the problems with the plan.

How are students supposed to be content and satisfied with school lunches? (Rhetorical Question) Michelle Obama’s Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act is one of the main causes why students are not happy with lunches. This act was supposed to make kids healthier while keeping them full but instead it did the exact opposite. In protest to school lunches, and Michelle Obama’s Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act students, administrators, and school officials need to get involved to help change school lunches. School administration needs to start paying attention and change school lunches because the lines are too long and students do not have enough time to eat, school lunches are too expensive and the kids can barely afford their lunch, and the lunches are

National school lunch programs in California are poor in quality when it comes to the nourishment of our bodies,leaving behind the vitamins and nutrients children and adolescents need in a meal.The investment in school lunches is crudely frail,instead of feeding our children healthier choices we resemble a fast food portion of food. It is comparatively as if one was eating any type of food served in a fast food place, equivalencing the same amount of calories.This happens in most public schools in California not primarily just in Granite Hills High school, although private schools seem to have healthier and a variety meal choices rather than public schools.For this purpose,we should strive to improve better lunch programs quality and not quantity.We

These lunches are required to provide no more than 30 percent of calories from fat and less than 10 percent from saturated fat” (Food Research and Action Center). Are schools ultimately meetings these standards that are set for these students? In the article “What is the Nutritional Value of an Average School Lunch?”, According to the third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study, published in 2007, schools consistently don’t meet the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s fat requirements. The survey for the 2004 to 2005 school year showed that most school lunches had 34 percent of calories from fat and only about 20 percent of school met the total fat guidelines (Miller). On the other hand, most schools are not meeting health inspections as well. There have been cases of students getting sick from the lunches at school. It’s very likely that it came from food being kept at the wrong temperatures. In an article called “How safe is school cafeteria food?”, inspector Troy Skow found hamburger meat that were below the serving temperature (Hansen). Bacteria can grow on food if it’s not kept at the right temperature which can lead to kids being ill. In the same article professor Berg states that, “The bacterial growth goes on constantly. And it replicates faster and it replicates exponentially. So if it’s seven minutes, it here. If 14 minutes, it’s doubled. It keeps doubling. And so the longer it sits out at a temperature…the more dangerous it gets” (Hansen). It’s a scary problem because school cooks are not as careful with serving food correctly, which can lead to sickness. Hansen also came across a school in St. Louis that had 45 students sick along with a teacher after eating their school

Did you know that school lunches have a great way for kids to eat healthy and get the nutrition, protein and vitamins that kids need to be healthy and proactive and use the energy that kids have built up inside their bodies to accomplish their goals that they have set for themselves?School lunches are a great way for kids to eat their vegetables and enjoy foods that are healthy but delicious at the same time.this is important because students/kids should make sure that their body have enough fat and protein to keep them both insulated and healthy.

School lunches lack key important nutrients and vitamins. studies show that only 50% of students get a vitamin rich and nutritious meal. 25% of all school lunches lack nutritional meals. This means 176,875 students don't get a nutritious meal. This is why obesity is sweeping the nation.

Although there may be less fats and calories, students are unhappy with the smaller portions and more expensive prices. So many kids, in fact, that students will bring lunches from home, or even leave campus to purchase food from fast food restaurants. If students have so many options outside of the school lunch program, what is the purpose in enforcing such a strict program? While there are good intentions behind the idea, there needs to be a better way to improve the diets of students in public schools.

In Apache Junction, AZ, more children are beginning to either not eat lunch at all or bring it from home. They do have a good reason for not wanting to eat the school lunches. Larger schools are capable of providing students with a healthy lunch that they will eat; nevertheless, smaller schools do not have the same luxuries. Lunches are often rotten or even less heathy then that of a burger from McDonalds. Good lunch programs are hard to come across and often expensive, but despite this there is a simple solution, just by the community of Apache Junction standing up and saying that all school lunches should come from one catering company that focusing on schools and is monitored by the government to ensure that all students will receive the nutrients they need.