I was the chef at my kids’ (Catholic) school for six years and I NEVER would have served that crapola to the children.
If I wouldn’t put it on my own table, it didn’t go out.
Guess what? The kids ate REAL lunches, made with REAL ingredients, and everything except the chicken nuggets mas made from scratch by me and the other gals in the kitchen. (I just couldn’t get the kindergarteners to give up the nuggets. However, I did make sure that they were real white meat nuggets and not the public school ones. OMG...the public school nuggets were the most disgusting things I’d ever seen. We got them delivered to us by accident one day. I made one batch, tried one, and tossed it. No nuggets that day. Disgusting.)
But I made pizza by hand, cookies by hand, all tomato sauced lunches were made by hand, fresh homemade soup on EVERY cold day, a nice big salad bar...well...you get the idea. The kids had lunches that their own moms would have made for them.
This garbage that they’re feeding the children today? I wouldn’t eat it, either. The 1% “milk” would be enough for me to toss it right there. LOL
Regards,
My mother worked in a school cafeteria (1978 - 1983). She went to have lunch with one of her grand daughters a few months ago and was disturbed and appalled when she saw what the school served the kids at lunch. She said the same thing as you did. When she worked in the school cafeteria, they made food from scratch. Pizza, spaghetti, burritos, salad, cookies, brownies, you name it. Guess this is what happens when you allow an unaccomplished, incompetent, angry woman from the ghetto total control over school lunches. As to how and why she has the authority to do such a thing is beyond me.
I wish all the kids were as lucky as your kids were.
Is it too much to ask they get a decent lunch?
A lady I work with said several schools around here opted out of the federal school lunch program, don’t know if it’s true but there goes all their federal dollars for the lunch program if it is.
Thank you for your devotion and service to the country.
I grew up in Upper Michigan, and ate lunch in the basement of the Catholic church next to the high school. The food was made by a group of Italian women; it was AMAZING. Except for tuna spaghetti on Fridays. :-)