Our school lunches where I work are a lot better then this but were also a petty good district in the state with decent funding.
Our school lunches where I work are a lot better then this but were also a petty good district in the state with decent funding.
When i was at school in the UK in the 90s, our lunch was almost always a spring roll with chips, followed by sponge pudding with custard. No protein, no vegetables.
My family was poor, my dad didn't work and then abandoned our family. The current cut off point is £7400 a year - if your family earns more than that you don't qualify for free school meals. I don't know what the cut off point was at the time, but my mother made just slightly over it. So I didn't qualify for free school meals, and my mother couldn't afford to pay for my lunches. So for a while I went without. This was especially bad because I often didn't get fed at home either. Eventually I found a way to eat at school, I started getting in the lunch queue and acting like my mother had paid for me to eat (parents had to pay for the whole term in advance). The dinner ladies didn't question it, and for the rest of the time I ate at school for free.
The food as I mentioned was very non-nutritious but at least it was something. Not much later in life I got thyroid cancer, and recently a study came out suggesting that thyroid cancer can be caused by long term selenium deficiency. Guess what foods are low in selenium - spring rolls, chips and sponge cake. Now I strongly suspect my cancer and all the problems that came from it and have ruined my life, were caused by the fact that nobody bothered to ensure I was fed a nutritious diet (or even enough calories - I was so thin at school that it hurt to sit on the chairs as my bum bones dug into the chairs, I had to fold my blazer up and sit on that to make it more tolerable) as a child.
Western culture is just so deeply hostile to children. Even though they have no choice in going to school to become the wage slaves of the future, they are still treated so bad and not even fed properly.
One third of children in poverty are denied free school meals, and teachers are going hungry too: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/we-don-t-have-to-starve-kids/ar-BB1nBwnU
When I was in high school and I got a hot dinner it was chips or rice, curry or gravy, pie, sausage roll, or pasty. It wasn’t healthy but it was cheap. Can’t remember the options in infants or juniours. Basically what you’ve said.
It's always some kind of pastry-encased thing with carbs. They think they're saving money by feeding kids this, but the long term health complications kids suffer cancel any savings out.
Yup, I’m not sure if Jamie Oliver achieved anything, I’m not even saying he’s a good guy, but what he set out to do was no bad thing.
Kids are so addicted to junk food that iirc they were getting their parents to bring them mcdonalds so they didn't have to eat his food.