“My strongest memories of grade school were of being hungry. I had a good breakfast and a good diner at home and I ate every scrap at school and was starving an hour later.”
My High School actually had pretty damn good lunches. They had a good variety of food and it tasted good. Everything was cooked in-house.
They would fill every compartment on your tray with whatever you wanted from the menu, and bread was free. A tray full of apple crisp was A-OK with them.
Every table had a big bowl of peanut butter, one of jelly, and one of real butter, also free.
Cartons of whole milk ( chocolate or white) were 2 cents and lunch was 35 cents. You could get stuffed for less than 50 cents. A dime would buy you 5 cartons of milk and all the PB+J sandwiches you could eat.
In elementary school, I pretty much had a PB&J sandwich for lunch every day. I never got tired of it, either. What an invention!
” A dime would buy you 5 cartons of milk and all the PB+J sandwiches you could eat.”
Paradise. Our lunches were planned by a school “nutritionist.” She had definite theories about fat kids.