This debate has been going on for at least decades. The only solution had always been to find the most nutritious foods that kids will eat. Looks like today it’s eat ( throw in the garbage ) what the left wants a kid to. Of course none of those who decide the menu have to eat it.
My favorite story had to be healthy snack machines. Junk food machines were taken out and replaced with machines that only dispensed fruits. They weren’t around long as they got almost no use whatsoever. This was around 1971.
We had lots of junk food at our high school during the parodoxically-named “nutrition” periods during the morning. We also had apple machines, and I remember getting sick of the chips and stuff from time to time and switching to apples.
In elementary school, we had good lunches if we ate in the “caf”. Best recalled are two: chopped steak on mashed potatoes and spaghetti, salad and garlic bread.
Each Wed., I think it was, the evening paper would print the menus for next week, and they were up for discussion the following day during recess. If Michelle’s menu had been proposed, the cafeteria would have sat there and gathered dust.