at a balanced meal with reasonable portions
When I was in school from 2001-2013, my lunches never looked anything like that. I actually really enjoyed the food we were served.
Thanks, Obama. 
(It must be because of Obama and not because he went to a different school.)
Lookin a lot like a jail tray (minus the fruit cups)
How dare they serve food on a tray! 
What's mildly interesting about this?
Shh /u/EasyAsPizzaPie it's a circlejerk thread, those are exempt from being on topic.
They used to be better. Like actual food. If I had a kid and their lunches were this, I'd start packing their lunches myself.
Actual food doesn't include meat, vegetables, fruit or potatoes apparently.
The same corporations that supply the prison system with food appear to also supply the public school system.
If this is what prison food looks like, jailcels 
need to shut up about food forever.
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We got rice and chicken for like 3 days a week at school lunch it was fire
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I brought a peanut butter sandwich from home.
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I went to a very bougie public school and i would sweet talk the lunch ladies to toast my hoagie in the pizza oven. We also had fresh hot soup every day.
Amazing stuff.
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Looks disgusting, not sure why you're praising this disgusting goyslop OP. As much as I hate fats, I'll have to agree with the plebbitors here.
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How can you call that slop when you eat microwaveable pizza rolls for every meal?
@AnnoyinTheGoyim love sucking peepee.
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looks pretty
gross 
tbh, i miss this shit 
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pizza is a veggie u know
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Not sure if
or 
. That means it's got the right amount of cheese.
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Now I get why you're defending that fricked up prison tray. You don't know about square pizza.
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Pizza for lunch every day is great and all but that leads to
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It was only on Fridays you 3rd worlder
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Pizza was good, mine would serve fried chicken on a Friday each two weeks due to the Black Student Union saying they wanted it. It was really good though
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My favorite thing I ever watched on C-SPAN is a lady testifying to some Congressional committee about how the free meal nutrition standards should have flexibility to account for the needs of different demographics—because students like hers in Detroit wanted more collard greens and fried chicken, and maybe students in New York would want more lox and bagels.
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now THIS looks like my school lunches growing up
no metal utensils tho, always trash plastic
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Can't complain
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BIPOC that's prison fare. The Redditors are right.
Question: Do you have to eat the school lunch? Can you bring your own?
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I was cracked out on adderall 3rd-8th and our food was shit. I rarely ate lunch
High school our food was good and I sold my adderall to my brother to sell in college
Got to gain weight for wrestling so I ate a lot while the twinks cutting has to starve
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Yes you can bring cold lunch, hot lunch is optional
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we got shit like chicken tenders and hexagon pizza, sometimes Mexican hexagon pizza.
And those fricking awesome cookies for $0.50 extra
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You belong in a prison if you think this is good.
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could really use more protein
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Pretty sure they cut it off at the legally required minimum amount of protein.
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Honestly better than square pizza and frozen tater tots
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American children are taught both explicitly (eat your salad and greens
) and implicitly through school lunch and bad cooking at home that healthy = disgusting food and unhealthy = tasty food. Everywhere else has figured out that you can have both at the same time without much effort. Eating well isn't hard, you just need to not eat like an American. Toss vegetables with spices and oil and put them in the oven. Stir fry them with any asian sauce of choice and maybe with some meat like pork belly. Steam them with garlic and salt in a pan. Throw some into a stew in an instant pot. Or actually figure out how to make a real salad instead of the disgusting nonsense that passes for one in America. Even boiling vegetables is great if you boil the right ones. You don't need to follow some restrictive hipster diet for 2 months then give up on it because it's too hard and find another one to repeat the cycle. Why are Americans like this?
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I was nodding along until your comment devolved into
NIHAO BING CHILING DONG FANG HONG. American children will never eat the monkey brain stew no matter how nutritious it is.
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