I picked up my first-grader early yesterday. She had just gotten to lunch, but THANKFULLY she was allowed to take this home.

I remember having almost the exact same meal (minus broccoli) as a kindergartener in the 80s. Coagulated nacho cheese skin and everything. Really wild they’re still feeding kids that forty years later.

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SiLeNZ_@reddit

How else will they guarantee the health insurance companies a steady line of ~~profit~~ patients?

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Ill-Victory-5351@reddit

eating government cheese at an early age doesn’t cause chronic health conditions. But kids deserve better meals regardless.

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_-whisper-_@reddit

Lack of nutrition at an early age absolutely causes chronic health conditions 😂

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SiLeNZ_@reddit

Eating that slop at such an early age absolutely will lead to chronic health conditions.

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TurtlemanScared@reddit

Like what?

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Newclearfallout@reddit

Childhood obesity, terrible food habits and malnutrition.

American food habits are bad. Iv met autistic kids with more of a pallet for healthy food than some of these teenagers.

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SiLeNZ_@reddit

I swear, the people in here denying this are crazy. And part of the problem. How much worse does our health need to collectively get before we realize the food we eat plays a role?

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SiLeNZ_@reddit

Diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular problems, colon cancer. There’s a reason America has such a high rate of these health issues, compared to other developed nations. They feed their kids incredibly healthy foods compared to us, and you really think that won’t have any impact? You must be American lmao

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ironicallydepressed@reddit

I'd love to see the source on this. Media worthy, if true.

But it sounds like the source is "trust me bro", so nah.

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SiLeNZ_@reddit

The fact you think shitty processed foods won’t have an impact in adulthood is crazy. I guess that’s why America has such a high rate of diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, to name a few.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667368125000476

I’m at work, but since you’re in such denial, here you go lmao.

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Ill-Victory-5351@reddit

Yeah I’m not going to trust a paper that cites MAHA reports. Bffr.

structural inequalities and school shootings harm children, but some people believe it’s nachos and vaccines!

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SiLeNZ_@reddit

Mate, if you want to keep on believing what we feed our children has no impact on their future health, do you.

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ironicallydepressed@reddit

Lmao that's not what I said at all, but nice projection. I never denied that eating shitty processed food CAN lead to health problems, but the way you are phrasing it seems like you think it's all but guaranteed that if you eat this even once then you are going to face serious health problems. That's just simply not true. It takes a habit to form.

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SiLeNZ_@reddit

Yeah… and that’s exactly what these kids are being fed. Do you really think they just feed them this one time? What are you even saying

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ironicallydepressed@reddit

Just because they are fed this way in schools doesn't mean they don't then go home and eat healthy with their parents. You are projecting.

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SiLeNZ_@reddit

There’s a reason Americans are dealing with higher percentages of obesity, and all the other illnesses I mentioned. And I’m shocked you’re saying this isn’t part of the problem. They eat this shit for lunch daily, until they graduate high school. The exceptions would be families that can afford to send their kids to school with a healthier lunch.

Europeans feed their students far healthier meals, and surprise, they have far lower rates of every disease I mentioned.

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ironicallydepressed@reddit

Again, that's not what I said at all. You keep projecting these arguments onto me that I'm not even making lmao.

This "food" is served, but not all kids eat it. Some bri g food from home. Some can't afford school food at all.

You really need to stop with the "this is the one and only cause of obesity" angle, because it's not the only cause. The American diet epidemic is rooted in bad habits, not the 5-times-a-week, sub-800-calorie "meal".

Your argument is incredibly disingenuous to the root causes of the American Obesity Epidemic.

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curt_schilli@reddit

Whoever allowed this meal to be served to children should be arrested lol

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kristinyash@reddit

Imagine if the kid doesn’t get proper nutrition at home either and this is the best meal of their day 😭

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SB2212@reddit

Or the only, for that matter.

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Toucanplaythatgame-2@reddit

And then you have people who say they should cut funding for kids to be fed at all. Because taxes are meant to benefit them and them alone, and not the community.

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Adventurous-Vast281@reddit

No, taxes are only meant for unnecessary military spending and the gilding fetish of our current "president".

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Epion660@reddit

Shitty food porn, and you still managed to make it about trump. Grow up.

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cityshepherd@reddit

I mean the fact of the matter is that a whole lot of children all around the country depend on this shitty food porn, and for some of them it’s the only food they get all day.

That is super fucked, and it’s ultra super fucked because we as a country could absolutely arrange for kids to have genuinely decent meals instead of what you see pictured here… but the party in control of our government continues to make it perfectly clear that they would rather children suffer (because they view poor people as nothing more than filthy animals who exist solely to be exploited).

I think it’s a very grown up thing to do to acknowledge that… but you do you duder.

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Conscious_Music_1729@reddit

Politics affect every aspect of our lives you stupid underaged crybaby.

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ScroochDown@reddit

I had someone aggressively demanding to see proof of the checks i had used to pay for other people's kids to be fed. Like motherfucker, that's what my TAXES should be for, and I pay those already! I have NO problems with my tax dollars being used to feed kids a decent fucking meal, that is not the gotcha you think it is. Absolute sociopaths.

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Toucanplaythatgame-2@reddit

I had one say to me that "it's the parents' responsibility, so it shouldn't be on them to alleviate the their bad choices". And I was like "oh yes, the choice of being in a financial crisis and kids should be the ones who should suffer from said "choices", right?"

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ScroochDown@reddit

Right! Like no, in an ideal world it shouldn't be. But I also don't fucking think that innocent children should starve just to stick it to their parents, Jesus fucking Christ.

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IFeedSquirrelsAMA@reddit

In the town I grew up in, the main dude on the school board thinks kids don't deserve food as a right.

This mf was friends with my brother.

He's spent time in my house.

I almost wish I still lived there so I could call his ass out. It makes me so fucking mad.

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OpusAtrumET@reddit

If you know anything even remotely embarrassing of any kind, now is the time.

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OpusAtrumET@reddit

As they consistently vote to serve billionaires gold plated lobsters in diamond sauce.

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Defiant-Dust-8737@reddit

Yeah I was the kid who NEEDED that school lunch. When EBT groceries ran out, the last 2 weeks or so all I ate was saltines, baking chocolate, PB if we had it, wonder bread if it wasn't moldy yet, and condiments.

The ppl who adopted me cooked from scratch. So all food was frozen, or dry like beans and rice. They were old, so there'd be stretches where they'd stay in bed literally all day for days on end and not cook. Once the consumables were ate up, we starved.

I'd smuggle school lunch extras for my siblings. I remember indescribable hunger, can't imagine no school lunch on top of that ache.

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PenguinsPrincess78@reddit

Preach it!!!!

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motherseffinjones@reddit

Taxes are only meant for a he military and corporate welfare. Why pay to feed kids when you can help major corporations pay for stuff.

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FormingTheVoid@reddit

America is so fucked.

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Xfuck1tX@reddit

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FreddyNoodles@reddit

Michelle really tried to get people on board, like how could anyone not be in favor of healthy, filling food for all growing children? Seemed safe and like it could ne done easily enough with bipartisan su.

Nope. She was a monster for it. Insanity.

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FoxxyRin@reddit

That stuff did pass though, or at least to some extent, and the food they were getting from that program was basically inedible. My daughter's last school was constantly sending shit home and not a single person in our household could tolerate it. During field trips there were some items the teachers would just throw out because not a single kid would eat them.

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Mac-And-Cheesy-43@reddit

The regulations got put in place, but it was still on prison budget for the food, so most of the time it was made with no concern for taste.

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MrEzquerro@reddit

It is basically up to people like Dan Giusti and Brigaid

https://www.instagram.com/dan.giusti

https://www.instagram.com/brigaid/

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Wrong_Collection8338@reddit

its so bad , if i didnt read the header , i would have mistaken it for prison food

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HEYitsBIGS@reddit

Prison and school foods are often one and the same, from Sysco or Aramark much of the time.

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Newclearfallout@reddit

Funny because both those companies also supply my arena i work at....so theres better food they have in stock then what they're sending to the schools. Meaning they pay for the cheapest stuff.....

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maybelle180@reddit

Yo, back in the Reagan years, ketchup was considered a vegetable. I think we’re moving up.

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LickyPusser@reddit

Yeah, but where can I get me some velveeta nachos and broccoli? That would hit pretty hard right now…

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TahiniInMyVeins@reddit

Honestly yes, without exaggeration. Whoever is controlling the factors and making the decisions that led to this being the lunch provided to a child in school should in fact be arrested. Whether it’s the policies/priorities or someone just straight up pocketing tax dollars, yes there is someone out there and probably more than a few someones, who deserves jail time. They will likely never see the inside of a cell. But they deserve to.

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kristinyash@reddit

Bet you inmates get better food. Maybe no choccy milk tho

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Nothingisperfect33@reddit

It’s pretty darn similar… and yeah, no chockie milk :( ate that stuff for 2 years. They do serve a cake square with every meal to “ make sure we get our calories” I used to work out every day at least twice a day and even when I traded my cakes for wet overcooked tasteless “veggies “ I was still like 230 pounds. I swear they sprinkle everything with a secret weight gain powder we don’t know about. Oh and every oat or grain like for breakfast came in a giant barrel that said “for zoos or institutions only” on a bright orange sticker.

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goya_madrugada@reddit

The way zoos and institutions + prisons are all lumped together. Wtf😭😭

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ironicallydepressed@reddit

Prisons ARE the institutions.

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Disastrous-Work-7669@reddit

This is facts. Most jails I've been to here in Kentucky use kellwell as their supplier which was actually decent enough but when I was in Fayette county they use airmark which is much lower grade food with green turkey and almost always just rice with the turkey or the most god awful ground beef you ever ate. And I can 100% vouch for the bags having for zoos and institutions only and the giant bag of Kool aid mix said the same thing with a big skull and crossbones under it lol

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Nothingisperfect33@reddit

Oh yes dude, our chicken when we had it was bone in and full FULL of fatty tumors. It was quite disturbing, but when you’re hungry and it’s all you have… yeah.

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TrainingSword@reddit

Same suppliers actually

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bisexualspikespiegel@reddit

the same companies supplying food to schools often supply to local prisons.

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Miora@reddit

They don't. If anything, inmates and kids gets the same exact food in most schools

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WLScopilot@reddit

I’ll give you one guess as to which party thinks kids don’t have the right to eat meals at school, let alone have access to quality food when they do

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ironicallydepressed@reddit

Faculty should be eating the same food in the same lunchroom as the kids. If it's good enough for the kids is good enough for them. The only way to ensure quality care nowadays is to make the caregiver live by their own care.

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Calsun12345@reddit

Let me tell you about MAGA and finding children….

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CriticismFun6782@reddit

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bleeper21@reddit

Kids lunch tier is one above prison food. America the great

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The_Poster_Nutbag@reddit

The same industrial kitchen that makes public school food also makes prison food. There's a fun fact for you.

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the_ammar@reddit

obviously it's healthy because there's broccoli /s

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anticomet@reddit

They gotta make poor kids suffer so when they turn 18 they're more willing to go murder poor kids in other countries in exchange for things like healthcare and education

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-worryaboutyourself-@reddit

I just bust out laughing at “she will miss this in the summer” ah to be a kid again.

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RubbleR0user@reddit

Ah yes hot cheese in styrofoam, just wha the child needs

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Kaz3@reddit

This meal has more microplastics in it than nutrition.

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Balbuzard_@reddit

E. W.

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daj0412@reddit

i hope that’s not a styrofoam tray they put hot cheese in..

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dandadone_with_life@reddit

ugh remember when we used to just absolutely demolish a warm plate of slop with a side of whatever the fuck like it was the last meal we would ever have and then go run a mile in jeans

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Recent_Medicine3562@reddit

Ate this 20 yrs ago in 2nd grade, they still serve it like this? that choc milk was good tho

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tvkyle@reddit (OP)

It’s the same cheese from the same bucket 20 years ago

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redditsuckspokey1@reddit

Perputual ~~stew~~ cheese

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Loulouvaughn37@reddit

The MOTHER cheese!

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Accomplished_Job_331@reddit

If you reach to the bottom and didn’t get stuck with a warm milk from the top

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Loulouvaughn37@reddit

This isnt even a properly balanced school meal. 😭 as a chef and former school cook... this is pathetic. But, I am WELL aware that MANY schools dont offer a nutritionally balanced lunch. So sad to see...

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Elkburgher@reddit

Why 2 milks though

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Giddyup_1998@reddit

Are you allowed to make your childs lunch?

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Wchijafm@reddit

The cheese is awesome. We would get it with beef taquitos. Tasted awesome. I loved taquito day and chicken tenders Friday.

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gaywolf420@reddit

Her saying she loves this is so cute I'm cryin

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LadyFreed@reddit

My son loves this dish- loves dipping his broccoli in the cheese then adding the chips for a “crunch factor” while having a treat with the chocolate milk

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issi_tohbi@reddit

I would be livid if this was the kind of thing they served at my children’s school.

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HaloGirl1996@reddit

My husband is a food service manager for two schools, one of them being the elementary school our daughter goes to. He would never feed kids anything like this. He will definitely be offended after I send this to him lol.

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Live_Barracuda_3424@reddit

I’d eat that shit up fr, same chips and cheese you’d buy at a ballpark. I love broccoli and I’d dip it in the cheese too. Sounds great. Drink me that chocolate milk and juice, I’d be satisfied.

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Ashamed-Strike-5506@reddit

Just in the kitchen cookin up bullshit

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ElementsofEle@reddit

No cooking involved in the creation of this lunch

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51710@reddit

Honestly, when you're a kid and maybe had a bowl of cereal before school, school lunches slapped so hard at lunch time no matter how bad they were.

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RelChan2_0@reddit

That cheese looks like melted plastic 😭

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eli--12@reddit

It's nacho cheese to go with the chips i assume, but yeah it looks unappetizing and it shouldn't account for 50% of a kids lunch😭

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ScroochDown@reddit

Oh I assumed it was for the broccoli.

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DarthSnoopyFish@reddit

It’s for both.

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Prestigious_Date_619@reddit

I remember this kind of lunch when I was in high school. The taste wasn't that bad, sure it looks unfilling (it is) and unappeatizing but there were worse options.

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Dry_Prompt3182@reddit

I thought that the baggie was grey meat patties, like the super cheap chicken burgers, and thought that this lunch didn't look too much worse than a lot of cheap, low carb adult meal preps I have seen. Chicken patty with broccoli and cheese sauce is not terrible. Nachos and broccoli is pretty bad.

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thewalrusispaul@reddit

I'm naming my new band Puddle of Orange

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CaldrierLunaire@reddit

What do you mean cheese ? That's not soup ? What the fuck is wrong over there

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Skizot_Bizot@reddit

Nacho cheese might as well be a cheese flavored soup.

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Disastrous_Style_477@reddit

I thought it was custard

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Varvat0s@reddit

Either way whys there a pool of it in the largest section

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Grantrello@reddit

It looks like it's cheese intended as dip for the "nachos" in the plastic bag next to it.

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Varvat0s@reddit

Oh those were chips?

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jazzbot247@reddit

I was hoping it was chicken or something. So that plastic cheese was the only protein in that meal.

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Varvat0s@reddit

Yeah I thought it was some form of protein as well.

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Grantrello@reddit

That's what they look like to me. They look similar to the chips we would get in our lunches when I was in school if the cafeteria was serving nachos. Although I don't remember the cheese being poured straight onto the tray.

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Disastrous_Style_477@reddit

Very true

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Oldgamer1807@reddit

Legit thought there was a layer of saran wrap over it.

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FirebornNacho@reddit

How can 3/5 of the meal be liquid!

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Soreal45@reddit

I never got 2 milks. This is a win.

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GottaUseEmAll@reddit

It's one milk, one fruit juice.

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Greendogblue@reddit

Pal that “fruit juice” says pasteurized and full of calcium I think that really is strawberry kiwi milk. Insane world

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dam_the_beavers@reddit

It says 100% fruit juice on it.

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Greendogblue@reddit

Hmmm this is the part where I realize I was wrong but refuse to admit it and become aggressive. You’re obviously looking at something else that doesnt make sense

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dam_the_beavers@reddit

Those are the rules of Reddit, proceed.

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GottaUseEmAll@reddit

It literally says "100% fruit juice" above the strawberry kiwi. I wasn't just inventing things to be argumentative.

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AStudyinViolet@reddit

There is no food in this food.

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kna5041@reddit

That looks gloriously American.

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Kalmer1@reddit

Especially the chocolate milk that says "Healthier food keeps you moving"

Ah yes, healthy chocolate chips, nahos and cheese

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LizM75@reddit

I think you mean “mooooovin”.

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row_away_1986@reddit

Carbs, Sugar n Fat got all the American food groups...

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morbidemadame@reddit

Ofc it's American.

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Wrong_Collection8338@reddit

my first thoughts were ,"wtf is this"

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strolpol@reddit

Milk AND juice? Honestly the juice is probably the most egregious thing in there, it’s just sugar water without much nutrient value. The cheese looks terrible but is probably not that bad in terms of what it offers.

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Lady_Litreeo@reddit

Ah but you see, the bag of tepid, raw, unseasoned broccoli makes it healthy! Surely the children will eat their raw broccoli and not just chuck it in the trash.

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strolpol@reddit

It has nutritional value but I agree, this wasn’t designed with the tastes of the kids in mind

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OkEase1151@reddit

There really are inmates in other countries eating better than US children. And the prisoners don’t have to pay for the food either

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EducationalGrump@reddit

This meal SLAPs, far too many poeple are hating here.

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spidersting@reddit

Juice and chocolate milk? When I was in school, we were lucky if there was any juice.

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Restivethought@reddit

Chocolate Milk and Strawberry Kiwi Juice? She's ballin

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Striking-Ad-8690@reddit

I thought the school lunches at my job were bad, but at least I can confidently say they have never served the kids a trough of solidifying nacho cheese 💀

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choirchic@reddit

Broccoli and Chips to dip in Cheese with TWO different flavors of milk? As a kid, that’s jackpot. Might not be the healthiest, but high in calcium for sure. 🤣 Wrapping it ‘To Go’ is a bit excessive and makes it look worse than it is.

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catmeownyc@reddit

Ah yes, the classic strawberry kiwi milk flavor

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Greendogblue@reddit

Look closer my friend. I really do think that’s strawberry kiwi milk

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Any-Pattern8246@reddit

Wtf is between the yellow stuff and the broccoli? And that yellow thing is cheese? Eurgh it looks disgusting. and two cartons of milk? Sorry wtf. You need a new nursery. Sorry

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lilfreaksh0w@reddit

in other news, Mr J’s comes in cartons now

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alee0224@reddit

Mmmm microplastics

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PhoebeGemaGray@reddit

Dipping the broccoli in the cheese would be good though!

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endless_lace@reddit

This makes me extremely sad for some reason. I'm glad I pack my kid a lunch everyday even if it's just a sandwich and fruit. It takes all of 5 mins

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is_this_a_dream222@reddit

This gotta be a southern school

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Anubis-Hound@reddit

Kids in other countries get real food while kids here get fed this nonsense

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Frequent-Housing9830@reddit

The amount of single use plastic is so sad.

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glitter_witch@reddit

Yeah I’m shocked to see each portion is bagged. Like… why? Pre-portioning could be achieved through other methods (ie paper trays) but do we not have lunch ladies scooping out servings anymore?

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Ok-Mathematician-107@reddit

She took it home. I’m sure they bagged it for her!?!

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DietCokeYummie@reddit

I’m with you, but state agencies have lost their collective minds when they audit schools on the meal program. So a lot of school food employees have done away with scoopers and spoodles to have less of a headache in audits.

Psychotic state agencies have totally ruined school lunches.

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Omghesopro@reddit

Lesson learned. Time to step up and pack your child a healthy lunch everyday if this concerns you.

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ScroochDown@reddit

You do realize that some families are so poor that they CAN'T pack their kid a healthy lunch every day. Or ANY lunch.

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brutaldictatortot@reddit

Save that fruit juice -Limuted Edition !!

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Hair_Questions2025@reddit

wtf is is ? that's revolting

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BilliamBalls@reddit

Reminder for those that don't live in this Hell Hole: in the USA prisons and schools get their food from the exact same suppliers.

I mean, not that I think prisoners should be fed this food either...

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YakElectronic6713@reddit

Looks depressing. But I guess bad food is better than no food at all.

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Raknarg@reddit

I love that fruit juice and chocolate milk are treated like health drinks somehow

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Synthesis_Omega@reddit

This reminded me of the guy that was in a middle home and posted his ration of the day on this subreddit. Honestly he had better food than this

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areporotastenet@reddit

My idea: make lunch, a class. Discuss nutrition, healthy eating habits, teach dining educate, and maybe even how to prepare basic food.

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Fancy-Success-1450@reddit

I moved here from PR in first grade. I remember my first day of school here, breakfast was just cereal and milk and that almost made me cry but it was ok, I missed the warm fresh oatmeal and fresh fruit. Then I got to lunch and I legit had a break down in the cafeteria 🤣🤣 I cried everyday after (also kicked and punched the teachers to let me out lol) all day hoping my parents would move back to PR if I cried enough ☠️ we never moved back 😭 but I’m in the process of moving back finally!

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PeaOk5697@reddit

Fatty cheese and chocolate milk with over 20 grams of sugar smh

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Videoplushair@reddit

Oh man this kind of makes me feel sad. I just think these poor kids don’t know any better. They may like the taste but they don’t understand that all of this is bad for them. I’m glad you found out about this and will make sure she eats well from now on. My 4 year old niece loveeess chocolate milk and chips. If she doesn’t get it she gets upset. It’s a real battle.

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Goewl@reddit

Is that two chocolate milks?

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Paininyourbutt@reddit

No money for school lunches but we do have 1.6 billion for the Jan 6 terorrists. All from the Cheeto suing our government. Keep in mind that a billion is one thousand million. These people throw these numbers around like they are pocket change.

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Entire_Adagio4768@reddit

I delicious serving of malk!

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Fucky0uthatswhy@reddit

Idk if I understand how this meets requirements. I don’t see any protein at all, the carbs suck, and it’s missing basically every key vitamin

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DietCokeYummie@reddit

Cheese is considered a meat alternate. This district has just chosen to do the least nutritious possible cheese route available. But.. kids fucking love nacho day. Considering it’s late May, this is probably a last day of school type treat.

Under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), you can serve 100% full-strength juice as fruit, but it cannot exceed half of your total weekly fruit offerings. The remainder of the week's fruit requirement must be met with whole or cut-up fruits (fresh, frozen, canned, or dried).

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BenTherDoneTht@reddit

This looks like cold war era anti-communist propaganda..

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NoConversation6711@reddit

Do you all really believe President Trump is in charge of crappy school food? How about look to your local school board or whoever makes the local decisions for suppliers?

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DietCokeYummie@reddit

Yep. The regulations have nothing to do with shitty food. It’s districts who don’t care about the food and do the bare minimum to meet feeding requirements.

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begoniadontdie@reddit

My portuguese brain thought hey at least there's some kind of carrot soup before I read that it was in fact some kind of "cheese"

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Its-very-that@reddit

that can't possibly have enough nutrition to be considered a whole meal

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Erafir@reddit

Your kid chose everything on that plate you can't blame the kitchen. They put out vegetables and toppings for the chips not just cheese. There are more options than just a bag of broccoli for sides. There's always white milk instead of chocolate.

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xxrambo45xx@reddit

If my kid said she would miss this would be so insulted id take cooking classes.

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ObiOneKenobae@reddit

It's nachos lol, of course a kid likes them. That cheese probably came out of the same can as the one at the ballpark.

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DietCokeYummie@reddit

Yep. Guarantee this is the top ranked meal their cafeteria serves. People love ballpark nachos.

As an aside. The amount of misinformation online about school food drives me bonkers.

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Zefirus@reddit

Seriously, people here are acting like people aren't paying 10 bucks for this at basically every movie theater.

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xxrambo45xx@reddit

Ya know, missed the chips, its early. I assumed there was something horrid underneath.

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Gecko_Lvr5@reddit

Average school meal, at least from my experience.

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leisuretyme@reddit

Im sure that hot cheese is not in any way being infused to the styrofoam. Cross post this to /latestagecapitalism. Dear goodness

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Dismal-Animal7853@reddit

Where is the food

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UncleDuude@reddit

kid like broccoli and cheese, so what? If you were concerned about what your first grader was eating you’d send food wouldn’t you? She loves it but you’re complaining? Go away

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kurrapls@reddit

What's... what is Mr J's all in one...?

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mlankba@reddit

There are many days I’m so annoyed that my kids school is too small for a cafeteria and cannot provide lunches so I have to pack one daily. Then I saw this and am reminded how grateful I should actually be. I stared at that picture for way too long before finally giving up trying to figure out what the orange wax was and then I read the caption. I am still shocked that’s cheese.

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kinetic_cheese@reddit

I have worked in several public schools and all I can say is, please do not blame the individual schools for this kind of slop. These choices are made well above the heads of the lunch ladies or even principals, but at the superintendent and school board levels. The best way to make changes in your local school district is to attend school board meetings! Get involved, or things like this will never change.

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RainbowDonkey473@reddit

So much plastic

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gemologyst@reddit

Omg Mr J! I remember when his juice would come in a plastic pouch.

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JodelHore@reddit

Du they get chocolate milk in school?!

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johngreenink@reddit

Nachos!!!

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inelmodlis@reddit

Kids school lunches should never find its way on this subreddit.

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JackSlater555@reddit

I'm amazed to see the juice boxes haven't changed in 30 years.

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givenenoughrope77@reddit

Sir this is America

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Bright_Curve3078@reddit

Chocolate milk is "healthier"? Is this some sort of American joke I'm too civilized to understand?

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Adventurous-Vast281@reddit

It's healthier than the alternative most American kids would probably choose. Someone probably did some random survey somewhere that asked whether they would choose milk, soda, or water and some marketing person latched on to it like a tick on a dog's ass.

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Bright_Curve3078@reddit

Soda as daily drink is a foreign concept to me. Soda is like cake, you have it a couple of times per year.

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Kalmer1@reddit

Same

Well not couple of times per year, but more like a treat once in a while or when having guests over etc

More like once a week or a bit less for me

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tvkyle@reddit (OP)

“Healthier food* keeps you moving!”

*just not THIS food

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balirosa@reddit

Ten servings of dairy please

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Pale_Row1166@reddit

Um, actually, it’s mooooooooovin, because a cow said it

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Rothyn1@reddit

Geesh. Was it school or jail?

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cannavacciuolo420@reddit

how is this a meal

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voteblue18@reddit

How is NACHOS and 2 containers of sugar water (with a bit of protein and calcium in the milk tbf) a proper lunch for a child? That is just wild.

My school lunches in the 80s weren’t anything amazing nutrition wise but way better than that slop.

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PierreOnTheEclair@reddit

UGH THE FILM CHEESE IS SO NASTY BRO 😫

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_picture_me_rollin_@reddit

Jfc chocolate milk and fruit juices!? What school is he going to diabetes middle school?

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HesitantInvestor0@reddit

Probably 100 grams of sugar in that meal. Wow, that's disgusting.

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AntiqueBaseballMuse@reddit

I love the “limited edition” juice

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redditsuckspokey1@reddit

Where'e the BEEF?

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mattspurlin75@reddit

What the hell are we feeding our kids in schools?

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nocleverusername-@reddit

60 year old here having trouble wrapping my head around this. We had real food served on real plates and real silverware back in the day. Real food cooked on site by real school cooks. It was good.

How in the hell did we get to this??

(IKIK, defunded schools and capitalistic enshittification)

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PetiteBonaparte@reddit

I went to private school and this is the same stuff we were served. At some point its just about not caring.

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tartarus2@reddit

My schools were some of the lowest ranking in the state, yet I didn't get served such bad food. Where are these schools?

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balirosa@reddit

Those kids waited all day for nachos

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SiLeNZ_@reddit

That’s an insult to nachos.

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balirosa@reddit

That baby wasn’t going to leave her bucket of cheese behind the kids been talking about nachos all morning

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TheBracketry@reddit

Fresh broccoli? My school never had that. And our nacho cheese had so little actual cheese in it, it would need to get well below room temp to ever consider solidifying.

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ArwingElite@reddit

LIMITED EDITION JUICE BOX?!

Save that absolute collector's item

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