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I can't answer the question honestly because I haven't seen a school lunch menu in many years. While I'm not that old, we had kids at a young age and they are all grown and gone but we gave them money everyday for lunch and as I recall they had pizza - things like that. It was prepared by the school and sold in the cafeteria. I think that many (not all) kids today are more conscious about eating healthy. When I went to elementary school we had hard plastic trays with dividers and the people scooped food from what amounted to chafing dishes and put it in the little divided compartments. Macaroni and cheese, stewed tomatoes, applesauce, Peach halves, pear halves, corn, peas, beefy macaroni, beef stew......all for 35 cents....and it came with either white of chocolate milk. When we went to high school you could choose from a variety of things - such as pizza. The cost obviously varied depending on what you purchased. I often paid $2.00 or more.
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ReplyDeleteI guess I'm showing my age! We got the whole lunch meal, including milk, for 30 cents. Soup or a sandwich were 15 cents. Milk separately was 2 cents. Of course, 30 cents was a lot harder to come by in those days.
There's a documentary called Fed Up on NetFlix that shows what kids are eating. I don't know about the local school systems but in the documentary it was all pre packaged stuff that could be heated in microwaves. Everything was in, served on and eaten with plastic. Guess who some of the venders were? Coke, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell for a start.
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