School Lunch Project
January 28, 2010 1 Comment
A fantastic new blog, Fed Up: School Lunch Project (h/t IFA). The author is a teacher in public schools and is eating the school-provided lunch every day in 2010. Very scary stuff.
My kids constantly complain about the school lunches. They say the taste is horrible and for my oldest daughter, the vegetarian, the options are limited. On the flip side though, try to get them to pack a lunch and they throw a fit. As often is the case with our kids, their compulsion towards laziness will trump good sense almost every time.
Awhile back I had a post up detailing what kids ate for lunch in other countries. I am the last one to talk about how other countries are so much smarter than us but on this front I think they have us beat.
I made it through elementary school (k-8) without ever buying the school lunch. Honestly, even at an early age I was neurotic. I have no idea why my Mom humored me by packing a lunch every day for 9 years.
My own kids now attend the local Catholic school at our parish. They pack lunch about 30% of the time. But I have to say the food they get is a lot better than the stuff I saw on the web link above. Yikes!
I can remember as a kid, my Dad used to tell me that school kids in France walked to school with a bottle of wine and a loaf of baguette for their lunch. I always envied those kids…