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Meatloaf, bread, fruit cup, "mystery" greens, milk.
Chili, carrots, fruit icee, day-glo colored cornbread muffin, milk.
These are just two of the many, many cafeteria school lunches an anonymous teacher, Mrs Q, is planning to eat every day this year. She's blogging about it on Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project. It's a like train wreck -- you don't want to read about the green beans in an unidentifiable "buttery" sauce, yet you can't look away...
Though, you've got to admire her courage. And, her iron stomach.
Plus, her motives are altruistic: She wants to educate people about what we are feeding our school children on a daily basis. This "insider" information is especially valuable now because Congress is reconsidering a re-authorization of the Child Nutrition Act, which means we have a rare opportunity to improve food for our kids.
After eating cafeteria food for three + months, here's what Mrs Q says about how she would like to see school lunches improved: "I want to see less processed foods, more variety, more fruit and vegetables, a salad bar in every school and explicit instructions on nutrition and cooking. Many kids just don't eat veggies because of lack of exposure."
And, I assume, removing the "mystery" from the greens!
Do you think you could eat cafeteria food every day for a year? Or does your stomach turn at the thought?
Comments (7)
I have been eating school lunches for years and find them lacking in imagination, taste and appeal. If we are to introduce children to more veggies and fruits then their first contact with that food has to be somewhat memorable. We have been on this binge of trying to make everything simple, easy and nutritrious that we totally have forgotten tasteful. I am an adult and I have the chance to add to my lunch or not eat it but as I work with preschoolers who have no choice but what we serve them. We are making something as simple as a good meal become some science fiction rewrite where we are trying to appeal to everyone and satisfying no one. We put our most valuable commodity on the line to satisfy one group of people example too much fat, too starchy, too sweet,too something when all we need to do is to teach our chilren to eat when they are hungry, portion control, and etc. Sometimes we as adults do not know this and in the case of teachers and school officials when enough is enough.