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> Despite the sharp wrangling that the National School Lunch Program often stirs up, the meals coming out of it are more nutritious — and a lot more adventurous
by tarr11 7y ago
> Despite the sharp wrangling that the National School Lunch Program often stirs up, the meals coming out of it are more nutritious — and a lot more adventurous — than they were 10 years ago. “It absolutely is a brighter day for school foods,” says Bettina Elias Siegel, a lawyer turned advocate and author of the book “Kid Food.”
> A major federal study recently came to much the same conclusion, finding that school lunches have improved significantly since implementation of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. And the schools with the healthiest menus have the greatest rates of student participation.
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- thatfrenchguy 7y agoAs a french person who's been to a few schools in the US, the US has such a long way to go it's almost non funny. I would never subject my kids to the food the local super-rich-tech-company daycare gives to toddlers.
- maxaf 7y agoI don’t care what anyone says; in NYC school lunches are basically inedible. Having been exposed to the public school system here for over six years, I can say with confidence that no one who has any choice will allow their kids to eat the garbage that schools put out during lunch. My kid tells me that she’d rather go hungry than eat lunch at school. I’ll be packing lunch for another six years as needed, and that’s okay by me. I just wish we weren’t wasting all this money to haul garbage to schools on a daily basis.
- nitrogen 7y agoLunches might be better on average, and still in some places worse than they used to be.