Comments on: Ground Beef, Cheese, Salsa, Tostitos and an Apple

By: GWPDA

GWPDA — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:31:37 +0000

And a cup of milk would do what exactly to make this dreadful ‘meal’ adequate?

Love the three slivers of processed cheese food…..

By: James Fox

James Fox — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:39:10 +0000

This is another misleading plate that is not reimburseable. The fruits and vegetables must come from two different sources. The chips, if you can read, are baked and half the normal fat content.

If this is a nutrient based meal then this could contain all the nutrients required by the Federal school lunch program.

Another factor is the student may have an offer verses serve option where the student has chosen this meal on their own.

Missing from each of these meals is milk which must be offered on all meals, and make all of the plates shown suspicious and questionable!

By: herminia

herminia — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:01:30 +0000

In my country, if any child of any public or private school gets “that” for luch , the school probably would be shutted or brougth to charges. (Spain)

By: AmandaonMaui

AmandaonMaui — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:46:58 +0000

At least there is an apple. An apple is good fiber which will help with the hunger being held off, but with all the processed carbs in the chips the kid is certainly going to get hungry and crash.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:44:35 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Bethany! We’re looking for more photos of lunches so we can start building some comparisons. If you have any of your first grader’s lunch, we’d love to post it.

By: bethany

bethany — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:09:44 +0000

ugh!! that makes me shudder. I have a first grader in public school in bklyn. seeing it is worse than hearing about it from him. no wonder he’s starving at 3pm.