Our son stopped buying school lunches after these modifications took place in his high school. He couldn’t get enough to eat without buying two meals. They also weren’t appetizing. When the food it so bad a 17 year old swimmer won’t eat it, you know it’s bad. Those kids burn some 10,000 calories per day and pretty much eat any time they’re not in the pool.
To be fair school lunches were not any more appetizing back when I was in school. At reunions we sit around and talk about the time Jimmy Carter bailed out the turkey farmers, and we were served some form of reconstituted, processed turkey product nearly every day for a year and a half.