School Lunch

We all know that school lunches are often frightening or consist of a basic assembly of "junk food".  Those being either the mystery meat (in my elementary it was the strange little sausages that came with your french toast... also who ever thought french toast was a decent lunch?) or the corn dog and french fries. With all of the resources we have here in America you would think we could do better than this. Our first lady has her health kick but if you simply google school lunches you will hear that people are not satisfied. To me it seems that instead of providing healthier (as in more nutritious) meals, schools have just been cutting back on the amount of calories in the food. This does not make sense. To cut back on calories schools are simply providing less food. Less food is not what America is about!

Healthy eating is not eating less. So why are feeding our students less? Now, people may argue that schools do not have enough funding or resources to feed students foods rich in nutrients and low in calories and fat and that is a fair argument. But we live in America and that simply is not good enough. The biggest problem with unhealthy school lunches exist in the communities with limited resources. These communities have students who may only get food from their school. Now we are limiting the amount of food they get just so we can say our lunches are "healthy"? This is not okay! 

Our first lady has made school lunches and healthier students her platform and we in schools appreciate that but unfortunately the results are less than ideal! It is time to revisit her original goal and realize we have gone off track. It is time to make school lunches truly healthy.