...to get their hand in on school lunch programs across America. As a highschool student who has had her fair share of school lunches, a question that most likely poses on many minds is, “Is it really working?” Due to poor funding, outrageously strict requirements, and the want for convenience, many should ponder if all of this is really helping. It can very difficult to serve and satisfy a group of students when there is very little wiggle room. Since the year 2010, many schools nationwide have been under the reign of Michelle Obama’s Hunger-Free Kids Act. This act called for more whole grains, fruits and vegetables with less fat and sodium in student’s...
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...Yummmmmm, school lunches, it includes a variety of rotten pizza, undercooked chicken, and the everyday cold lunch. The lunch ladies should pay us to eat lunch from their cafeteria. The lunch is horrible, disgusting, as well as awful. The school might as well make the meat a mystery, because I bet you, they’re lying. Just bring 100 snacks from home and you would still be eating healthier. Also, school lunches can easily make a young adolescent fall sick. I mean I only fell sick for two weeks, because of school lunches! Pursuing this further, I believe students should take lunch from home. Although you may think buying lunch from cafeteria is more convenient, think about your health. You may save room in your book bag, but its just one lunchbox. Being...
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...School Lunches Remember those school lunches that they used to provide for us throughout elementary all the way up to high school, and if they did not they were about $2.50 a meal. Some kids hated them, others liked them and others just didn’t care as long as they had something to eat in between classes. The importance of school lunches is very high. Many kids always complain about the food, but for some it’s a blessing to them because that’s often their only meal due to their parent’s income. The lunches usually contained a milk, a juice of your choice and a small meal. Breakfast meals varied from cinnamon rolls, to French toast, to burritos, to pizza bagels. Lunch consisted of burritos again, salads, chicken, burgers, macaroni and cheese, chili cheese and beans with crackers or tostadas. And again, any of those meals along with a carton of milk and a juice were only $2.50, of...
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...Some of our school lunches are good, others are not. Some people like the lunches and others never eat school lunch. Last year I ate a lot of the school lunches. This year I have not because they don't sound like the best thing to eat. There are some good lunches. Taco in a bag, nachos, chicken drummies, chicken nuggets, mandarin orange chicken and some more are good lunches. A lot of them are not so good like fishwitch, turkey burger, spaghetti, chicken parmesan, they only give use a little amount of. Most of the good lunches we don't get a lot. I think Another thing is that the lunches don't fill us up. Most of the time when we get done with lunch we are still hungry and that's not good. When we are still hungry that's what we are...
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...focusing on children and teenagers. Mrs. Obama and many other people feel that it is essential to make sure kids are getting the right nutrition. School lunches have become healthier, having a greater variety of fruits and vegetables available, rather than cookies and other sweets. School lunches have helped my health now and will be helpful in the future. From school lunches I have tried so many new things I would never think of trying like humus, brussels sprouts, and squash. All of these things are...
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...Have you ever been at school, so hungry, then reach in your pockets and only have a dollar? I, personally have done this many times and thought in my head “I wish we had a food vending machine.” School lunches can be so expensive and they continue to rise about $0.30, or 12 percent, every year ( School Nutrition Association 2017 ). Elementary school lunches are, on average, $0.26 cheaper than high school lunches, but each are being fed the same amount of food. Even though 18 percent of 12 to 19 year olds are considered obese, schools should have a junk food vending machine in the halls because kids get hungry during the day, some lunches are too expensive, and more expensive for the schools to provide. Often times in middle school or junior...
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...Since the 1900s, lunches were served in schools. Over the decades, there were dramatic changes in school lunches and to make it clear, it recently changed. The latest political battle in DC- your lunch. They have been changed constantly health-wise from the 1900s to now. In the 1990s, school lunches hit its peak of unhealthy foods and most recently, people take a stand on changing, keeping or altogether getting rid of them. Two people currently taking a lead, first lady Michelle Obama who decides to keep school lunch standards but, on the other hand, Aderholt thinks these standards need to be changed greatly because it is too strict. Well, what do I, a 6th grader currently attending Miller Middle school think? Two main things, that need to change, is the schools lunch standards and who controls them. They are a...
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...School lunches need to change for the better because everyday kids have complaints about them and even more kids around the world. So it's not just Zimmerman. The school lunches used to be decent until in 2012 when Barack Obama made a law called “The Healthy Hunger free kids act” which prevented unhealthy foods at schools. This helped reduce kids obesity, but the lunches are still gross and bad tasting. Even though they did get more fruits and vegetables the fruits are not fresh at all. For example the apples are hard as rocks and the vegetables taste like they’ve been out for weeks. I think it would be better if the school ordered subway or dominos once a week at least or a better provider because ours is very gross. Not only Zimmerman...
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...almost 20 percent of kids were overweight. Many schools today are not giving kids enough fruits and vegetables in their lunches which is where a lot of them get their nutrition from. On top of that these schools are offering the kids to buy junk food which is causing many of them to become obese. The U.S. government should change lunches in schools so that they have a more variety of fruits and vegetables and their lunches contain more nutrition. Schools today are allowing kids to buy junk food and many of them choose that instead of eating fruits and vegetables which gives them the...
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...Should schools be forced to serve healthier lunches? From vaccinations to doctor’s checkups, Americans do their best to promote health, especially among children. An increase in obesity cases can be observed in the last three decades; obese individuals are at higher risks for many heart and blood related illnesses. Malnourishment meaning lacking adequate nutrition is very prevalent among obese and underfed individuals. Nutrients are believed to provide many learning and cognitive benefits by stimulating receptors in the brain and releasing chemicals that help with learning. Research supporting good nutrition has been conducted, which has led to the government’s push in nutritious lunches. This push has led to a public debate on whether there...
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...Do your kids ever come home complaining about how gross their lunch is? Do your kids ever come home starving because they didn’t eat at school? Well, these are common problems across America. Students complain about how they are not getting enough food at school, or how they don’t like the new food program. I remember when I was given cheap white bread instead of expensive multi wheat bread. This program is costing our schools money that they are not getting back. That brought me right to my first reasoning, schools are losing money in uneaten lunches. Also, if the school is providing salad bar as an alternative lunch it will cost money to provide what they need for it. When kids are refusing to eat lunch and bring their lunch, the...
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...graders share second lunch, all three lunch eating areas have been packed during second lunch. Without fail, a disastrous mess is left behind once lunch ends, most severely in the cafeteria but also in the West patio. The worst part is, there is very little trash, but the majority of the debris is food. Food fighting and wasting in general has become widespread during lunch, especially common in the cafeteria where groups that know each other sit in a close vicinity. Often, when the situation starts being dramatic, friends start throwing small snack items, or in more serious times, full drink containers and complete lunch items, at each other. We are also referring to a common carelessness when handling food, whether it is creating un-middle-school-like messes or just wasting it. (Here’s a hint: Eat the food.) With it being so extensive, are people actually bothered by this problem? Some comments from a number of students and staff prove that this is a real issue:...
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...Changing school lunches Are kids getting fat due to school? When it comes to school lunches most kids eat hot lunch. The lunch ladies get paid so they are happy, and kids get lunch so they are happy to! It’s the kind of lunch that they are serving is the issue. Should we change school lunches or keep serving students preserved, artificial food? The lunch schools serve now is frozen and warmed up, or just plain unhealthy. More than half of the kids that go to school go home and eat nothing but junk food, so if they come to school and eat an unhealthy lunch then it's junk food all day and they don't get any nutrition. Schools don’t have a lot of extra money to change their whole lunch menus but neither do all family’s. Some families don't have money to buy healthy food because junk food is cheaper. If schools provide healthy lunches and took away most junk food there would be so many improvements in so many ways....
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...High school lunches and college lunches are totally different. Colleges are so much better because of the items. I may not know what I am having for lunch until I make it to the lunch room, but it usually never disappoints me. Student card, the variety of food to choose from, and how many times I can eat are three ways that high school lunches and college lunches differ. The first quality in which high school lunches and college lunches differ is the use of a student card. I must always have that student card with me when I eat. Without that student card, I will not be able to eat unless I plan on paying for lunch. They are very strict about it and usually do not let you eat without it. In high school, all I need is my lunch number that I received at the beginning of the year. Just remember that number and you can eat. It is very easy to remember a three digit number then to keep up with a student card....
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...your school already have a long lunch? Well, schools should have longer lunches because it helps kids relax, it is a lot more healthier, and kids don't waste as much food. There are many advantages for having a longer lunch including students have more time to relax and a break from all the stress that school gives. If you have more time to eat then you have more time to talk, which helps kids relax. Attention spans are dropping among students, and short lunch periods may be part of the problem (Food Service Solutions). Wouldn't you be ready to learn after a 40 minute lunch break? The second reason why there should be longer lunches is that it is way healthier. For example if the lunch is longer then the lunch ladies have more time to prepare the food. Which means healthy lunch, more greens and more fruits. Also rushing to eat doesn't give students time to recognize things like signs of fullness or the way certain foods make them feel (¨Food Service Solutions¨). And the Journal of Academy of Nutrition conducted an experiment on an elementary school. They found out that students eat 13% less of their main...
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