Many schools do not even allow brown bag lunches anymore.
Those that do demand that they meet some arbitrary government nutritional guideline. If the lunch fails to meet that guideline they take the lunch away from the child too.
It is all insanity at the liberal level.
The dirty little secret here is that school lunch programs have nothing to do with nutrition, health or anything of that sort. For every kid who gets a free lunch, there is an entire industry of food suppliers who lobby heavily for this crap because they make a ton of money off it.
My son has reported to us that some of his buddies think we’re rich because he gets Oreos and Rice Krispie treats in his lunch. He often trades the kids for other stuff (which we used to do). I’m waiting for the day when we get told we can’t put that in his lunch because it’s making the other kids unhappy and feeling inadequate.