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Have you seen the school lunches in Japan. They are super healthy they are planned out with the parent's knowing a full month in advance what they will be getting. The menu also says where it came from, and the nutritional value of each item, and total caloric intake. There is also a rule that they have to eat everything on their plate my friend told me that they once had a few grains of rice and they didn't take his bowl till he had ate them. Oh right that's one other thing they do. Students are in charge of handing out the meals and collecting them to teach them responsibility and leadership (Something the kids seem to really enjoy) There is also a system where if you want more you can ask for more but you still only have the same time to eat as everyone else. The idea being that the kids will learn that by overeatting they won't feel so go when they then try and go and play with their friends after eating. Overall it's far better than the school lunches I had in school which was just Pizza or burgers.
@@mstly4lg I think they do now. My sister told me they have really good meal in primary school but when I was at school 14ish years ago it was just pizza and chips
I was always embarrassed that my Mom packed my school lunches but looking back I’m super grateful. She would pack an apple with peanut butter (might sound bad but she always bought the kind with peanuts as the only ingredient) and a sandwich with whole wheat bread, cheddar cheese, mustard and chicken breast that she roasted and shredded. Thank you Mom 😭
I remember lower jncome kids in highschool who got handed a roll of biscuits for lunch and said something about always eating fruit n bread for lunch. My mom prepacked my lunchbox..
I'm 30 years old and endorse an apple with peanut butter as a highly satisfying substitute to potato chips. I gained 70 pounds from my second bout of covid that has still been impacting my health from September 2022. Since I have brain fog and fatigue, I can't be nearly a quarter as active as I used to be. Trying to replace junk food with fruits and fruit and yogurt based smoothies. Also been trying more vegetables with cheese sauce instead of eating anything other than home made French fries as a meal side. The apple is satisfying since it has that crunch like a potato chip does. I do adore the crunch. Tl dr; Go apples with peanut butter!
Dude, when are you going to realize that the people who run this shit are trying to do everything they can to put eugenics in place and delete poor people from existence.
@@judyh3707 Malnutrition and obesity often go hand in hand. It's not really a surprise but people who don't know about the subject (not talking about you, just overally) rarely even think about it.
In addition to malnutrition, it sets the kids up for a rough future of being addicted to processed food. Those kids keep eating the processed food, which tastes yummy and is affordable, and it becomes a profitable cycle for food manufacturers. It really is so upsetting that governments allow this to happen.
My grandma (back in the 50’s and 60’s) was a lunch lady in a U.S. public school. She recalls actually cooking the food from scratch everyday. After a while, schools began to outsource to large corporations and that’s when US school lunches took a nosedive. The so-called “food” our schools now serve isn’t even fit for a dog. We forget that food is also a part of an education. We need to teach kids was normal food is supposed to look like. But instead, we funnel money to corrupt corporations that don’t have our kids best interest at heart
It actually is pretty much dog food. The meat grades used in school lunches is the same grade used in dog food. We don't feed our animals very well either.
my aunt is the head lunch lady at a school and she fought to get and keep the food made from scratch, and the school isn't even in the wealthiest area, kinda the opposite actually, and they're able to make healthy and good meals for the kids. I honestly wish there were more people like her who care about what kids are eating
Government and corporations are walking hand in hand pretty blatantly these days. So many ultra-rich politicians who don't earn that money above the table.
As an immigrant my parents didn’t have the money to buy pre-packaged food or they just don’t know what some of these heavily processed food products are due to English inadequacy, so they always pack me bentos or warm homemade food in insulated containers. I used to be embarrassed because other students would be eating these flashy colourful packages of food, and I just felt “poor” and “un-westernized”. Now I am just sooooo glad I never got the chance to touch these garbage food. 😂
Same I used to be embarrassed when it was lunch but after a while my friend s would comment on my food and say it smelled delicious and I was always super proud lol
Same but the other way. I didn't have TV, didn't have Nike and Addias clothes, didn't have a Disney pencil and pencil case and school backpack, didn't have branded snacks. I though we were too poor for all those. I realised when I entered college that my parents were in the top 5-10% of income. And all those were signs of poverty but wealth ... The power of brands on children brains is incredible. It convinced me, a rich kid, that I was poor because I didn't have any of their branded products.
Yeah, I went through a similar experience as a preteen while starting middle school. I was on a very-temporary gluten/casin-free diet at a time when that diet was lesser known/talked about, so I can remember being a bit embarrassed that I ate lunch from little soup canteens and lunch bags. Looking back at it now, I'm glad I ate my own lunches throughout middle-school and high-school.
Yeah, I got to eat Lunchables for a bit in eighth grade as a convenient lunch option that both me and mom decided on. Really called Lunch Mate since it was in Canada. Then later when I wasn’t satiated from one or two of them, maybe THREE, we figured out it wasn’t a lunch, IT WAS A SNACK and I started getting thermoses with soups from the Russian store and Amy’s soups, rice and chicken, healthy thermos stuff that it took Mom a few mins to make. I’m pretty sure the lunches after Lunch Mate were basically what you’d expect an Asian to have but im ethnic white and my ethnicity is half Russian lol🧸
The issue isn't kids eating garbage. It's a large company coming to an agreement with the government to give that stuff to kids. Kids won't have the best diets of the world, but the government doesn't seem to even be interested in kids growing up to be healthy. Can't go with "fight obesity" afterwards, if you actively support the foundations of it when they're young.
Yeah, but if there is something you have 100% of sure you can control sth, it's you kid's diet, your own diet. Maybe yeah, the goverment doesn't care much and compamies even less, but you have to care. Otherwise you will just be another person who complain and do nothing
The issue is the parents feeding their kids garbage that these companies make. Children can’t decide what’s put on their plate, their caregivers decide that, so I’d say it’s the parents and companies faults
Hey Kiana. I'm French. This is a random menu from my daughter's school lunch this week, so what you're showing is pretty accurate: - Starter : Celery salad - Main : Roasted chicken (or egg as a vegetarian option), Pommes noisettes (mashed potatoes with pâte à choux shaped into balls and roasted), mushroom, sauce (wee love our sauces lol) - Satsuma - Yogurt Notice There's several veggies and fruits and they are seasonal, and we do have some pleasure ingredients (pommes noisettes are basically round fries). In my council most ingredients are organic and we have a kitchen preparing everything daily from scratch with fresh ingredients for the 4 schools in the area. We Pay 4,50€ per meal (roughly the same price as a happy meal at MacDonalds in France), but meals are subsidised by our council for low income families (free for them). Looking at American meals for me is like looking at a dystopic documentary, so terrible this is seriously considered a good option for the children I have a hard time believing it's true, although it sadly is.
Back in my day, circa 2002, majority of the kids from higher income families, myself included, had their parents pack their lunches. The kids from lower income families were the only ones eligible for free school lunches, which is all cheap processed garbage. I pretty much stopped eating lunch all together when I got to high school. I'm sure nothing has changed as of late.
@@TheOpethOfMastodon I think it really depends on your council as every city has different processes. As I said I m in a smaller council (4 schools) so that might factor in. Even in the local private school (same kitchen as the 3 public ones) all parents have their kids eat the school lunch. I am wiling to acknowledge I might live in a privileged area, however I also know many councils where lunch offer has improved since my childhood in the 90s (chatting with parents living in other areas, including the town I and them grew up in). On a side note, free lunch never has been and still isn't for everyone. I did mention it was for low income families.
I had the horror of getting lunchables from school this past year, when me and my friends saw it we straight up laughed and were disgusted that they were feeding us this crap to high school seniors btw. American food and school system is a literal joke. We’re lowkey collapsing as a country if this stuff keeps happening. Which it will.
@@stevenhenry5267most of the tine the government pays contractors to do stuff. You just need a government that doesnt take the cheapest shit they can find and actually enforce their laws
@@Gigachad-mc5qz Not about cheap. You could hire a trained chef and serve a fresh 5 course meal for less than we pay these contracted companies to poison kids with crap. It's been proven many times.
I remember as a teen learning that the CEO wouldn't feed his own kids Lunchables because they weren't healthy... It's honestly embarrassing that they're probably going to get away with doing this.
Same goes for tablets, phones and social media, the people involved in the tech don't let their kids on them. More people should think about why that is before shoving a tablet in a kids hand and letting youtube babysit it.
I used to teach at a school in Southeast Asia which consisted mostly of very economically poor students. Even then, the school was able to provide free school meals to their 2500+ student body. These meals were often rice with stir fried meat and vegetables. There's NO reason why we can't provide our youth with a basic nutritious meal. The obvious corruption in the American school system is sickening.
I was born in the worst economic crisis of my country here in South America. I used to eat lunch at my kindegarten (that was also public and free), and the lunch was also free. The food was so good I still remember it up to this day. I wasn't starving but I'd be excited to have lunch at school everyday. The biggest problem with the US is that people don't realize that when there's a need, there are resources if the government distributes them well to the correct places. Giving money to a corporation that sells garbage food isn't distributing those resources well. If a small country going through hardship can feed their children, "one of the richest countries in the world" can do it too.
I think this, more than anything, nails in how blatantly obvious and bad the corruption of school meals is here. It's very obviously not an issue of funding and "supply shortages".
I don't think it's a matter of corruption, here in Mexico (at least in CDMX and surroundings) governments usually give breakfasts to low-income children and young people, and they are decent despite the fact that the budget leaks everywhere I feel like it's more because of the fast food culture and the fact that companies in the US don't have any kind of penalty for doing those things.
Yeah bro it's not an an accident I love how people are still confused by this. There is no problem to solve it's simply done on purpose to keep you as unhealthy as possible. If it was up to them you'd be dead right now but they can't do thay yet so gotta make sure everyone is sick
As a small child, I remember wishing I could have lunchables like all the other kids in the cafeteria, but they were always a "special occasion" sort of food in my house. I always wanted them instead of the same carrots, sandwich, apple, etc. that I had every day. Now, I'm so happy my mother didn't let me eat that processed "food" everyday. It's honestly horrifying that kids are fed this on a regular basis.
I grew up desperately poor, so often times lunch at school was the only meal I could reliably get every single day. I think if I got given a bloody Lunchable vs an actual meal for my lunch I'd have cried.
Honestly... 3.5 oz of meat alternative and grain alternative processed into a handful of nitrate-laden, barely chewable discs... 3.5 oz?! It's not only gross, it's insulting and insufficient.
Dude I was poor poor . I smelled like cat piss poor . I would see kids get pack Lunchables and I envied them . They would show them off and what not . I got county food and it was shitty . Trust me I would prefer a Lunchables over what they served in the 90s in California.
just be happy you didnt get gunned down while in class followed by some disingenuous "thoughts and prayers" from the governor and local politicians at your funeral.
So in what way are lunchables not healthy? too much salt? boohoo. They are actually dense sources of calories protein and minerals. Unlike the shit served on the tray.
And to add to that- our food pantries have nothing but boxed and processed food. So if you’re eating only that? Yup. You’re probably going to be obese.
I've moved to Finland from the US for school. My university has several cafeterias. The finnish and other EU students were saying it was just okay for 2.5€. The American students were raving about how tasty and healthy this cafeteria lunch is compared to home. The other students were baffled. So we told them stories of the US school lunches.
This was my experience as an American student in Finland too. I ended up staying in Finland for 8 years because i really didnt want to come back to America because the food here is so atrocious lmao
When I taught at a public school in Korea, I ate lunch in the cafeteria every day, and got the same tray as all the students. We had the best cooks, such flavorful nutritious stuff, rice, soup, veggies, meat, kimchi, plus a slice of fruit or a little Yakult drink to finish. I paid about $3 for it. I miss that. Also enjoyed joining the post-lunch ritual of hundreds of kids brushing their teeth after eating 😁 Korea does have issues with neglecting mental health, but they really make physical health a priority
@@Lilboozibert _Any_ is an absolute. As the birthrate declines, there will still be *some* kids around, so there will be a need for schools and good school lunches 🌶🥬🍚
@@dancingdragon3 It's cultural, a common ritual, and serves a practical purpose. Korean food has spicy red pepper and garlic, so it's nice to clean the mouth afterwards. In the public school, all teachers and students take off one whole hour together, midday. Communal eating is a vital part of Korean culture. Many kids rush the food line as soon as the bell rings, everybody eats, then brushes, then spends the rest of the hour as they choose. People at slightly different paces, but very communal experience. With the communal eating, the communal dental hygiene just kind of makes sense 😊
As a French student I confirm that I’ve always been served a 4 course meal including - a cold starter like salad, fresh vegetables, chickpeas, eggs, avocado… - a main course always including a protein, vegetables and starches - a dairy product like yoghurt or cheese - a desert and/or a fruit I am actually shocked learning what’s being served as “school lunch” in the US, cmon you were supposed to act like a developed country
As a brasilian student i have at college one meal a day; its a salad that was surely clean using vinegar; rice and beans; one kind of meat and its real meat not ultra proceced meat; and one side dish along with the meat; they also have a vegan version where instead of meat they give a highly nutricious vegetable and a fruit or a desert; public schools also give that same dish to kids but twice a day
@@Marshmellowed Not necessarily a "delight", but at least when I was in school 10 years ago it was relatively healthy with at least vegetables and fruits. We even had a salad bar at some point. To me this is scandalous this is even considered acceptable as a meal for students. Fake meat, fake cheese, carbs, salt and sugar ; A bunch of calories without nutritional value, no vitamins, no fibers, nothing ... To me, learning how to eat well and balanced is basic health education, it's literally one of our primary needs. Feeding garbage to kids who don't know any better and will develop health problems later in life isn't right. The current situation of the US on the issue is unacceptable.
fun fact: here in Brazil, the goverment banned all the ultra-processed food (and snacks) last year. Now, school lunches are all fiscalized by nutricionists. I used to work at the city hall of my town back then, and the lunch was really awesome, full of fruts, veggies and stuff like that
True! In my school, they served salad, meat, rice, beans, and sometimes a healthy snack/candy like banana candy, or fruits and lemme tell you it was good! Even the teachers loved it!
When I worked in a tiny Scottish school (22 children total) a few years ago, I was impressed that they had their own cook, the meals varied and healthy. I hope that trend continues and the government here doesn't think - 'Lunchables? That's a way to help fix our national debt.'
And in a supposedly "better" country as in the USA, nutritionists are communists, or woke, or whatever buzzword they get right wing idiots to believe. Meanwhile, they're basically serving prison food to their own kids, just to stick it to the libs.
its crazy how people call america the “best” and “richest” country when they cant even feed the children of the future appetizing or nutritional food. its tragic because some families cant afford to buy fresh fruits and vegetables or have time to make their children food every morning, so basically its either starve or ingest unappetizing, addicting foods that just make your already obese children even more unhealthy.
This is too sad to be true. In Thailand, kids that live in poverty still have daily school lunch to get by as their family couldn’t effort a full meal. It might not be anything near fancy meal, but at least we can have real meat,rice and veggies😮
Also, can we talk about how animated movies in the US often push this narrative that vegetables are yucky? Like, it's almost alarming how many cartoons and shows have their main characters having negative visceral reactions to vegetables.
*Especially* broccoli. Slightly infuriates me because I love broccoli, especially with cheddar. I don’t like some vegetables like onions and celery but come on, a lot of veggies are actually pretty good when cooked right.
If we say someone is lovable, we don’t mean that the person is necessarily loved; we mean that s/he is someone whom it is possible to love. The same goes for Lunchables. The company is implicitly admitting, “Yeah, this is not necessarily lunch, but it could be.” This places Lunchables in the same category as say, a piece of loose-leaf paper. One boring afternoon, a friend dared me to eat a sheet. I was indeed able to make a meal of it, so the piece of paper was lunchable.
This reminds me of how we all ate toilet paper (with salt if we could get it) every night in jail bc it helped ease the hunger pain enough to be able to sleep. So many of us were caught and sent to seg charged with "destruction of government property " for eating toilet paper that there were six per cell in an 8x10, two bunk cell locked in for 23 hours per day and one lady got blood clots in her legs bc we couldn't stand up bc we were so tightly packed.
I'm from a former socialist Eastern-European country, and I still can remember the school breakfasts and lunches of that era. They were pretty simple but natural, like bread and butter with salami and some veggies, also they made sure that children drank enough milk so they get enough calcium. For lunch it was usually some cheap but nutritious traditional meal. Not as grandeur as the French kids have but still looked much better than the US alternative. Underprivileged children usually got breakfasts and lunches for free.
I'm not from France, but another european country and I can confirm that lunches or rather dinners for kids here are great. At least in the schools I was in there were always two courses - soup and a solid meal. Fresh and prepared on the spot. Perhaps my school didn't always have toilet paper, soap (lol) or modern classrooms but at least the food was amazing I must say. Having said that, I definitely agree with you that serving such fake meals to the kids is absolutely unacceptable.
In my country (European too) they were cooked on the spot too: honestly they were far from great (overcooked pasta, mediocre meals overall), but at least it was actual food!
I'm french and i can say that is alright but can be better, ingrédients are good but sime time préparation destroy all ,if the principle plate do note convence you , you can alway eat a salade or stuf like this
That's crazy! To be honest, if we invested in doing something similar here in America, our grades would probably go up appreciably. Good nutrition is so important, and I will freely admit that ours is pretty crap.
@@mrknarf4438 you guys have cooked meals? I am from europe as well. Our parents put bread in our backpack and that is pretty much it. In highschool yoi can buy even more bread at school. Or a candy bar.
When I was a kid I was so jealous of the other kids in my class who had lunchables. But now I'm so grateful that my Mom never bought them for me despite my begging. Thanks Mom!
Anyone else notice the USDA guidelines specifically mention “macaroni-type products” as a meat alternative, and now they’ve partnered with Kraft to supply children’s lunches?
It's all word games. Big Dairy was pushing for awhile to change the definition of milk to mean "milk with additives" so they could add aspartame, people would be addicted, and they wouldn't have to label it. IDK if it ever got passed...
@@Lilith-cosplay-world *were....also do you really want to comment this under everybody? go buy your kid that ultra processed sh*t and watch them get miserable
There are no lunchables in Egypt but yeah, my mom would make me breakfast to bring it to school. Nowadays, I make sandwich before I can go to college due to sufficient time.
@@oosha2000 same here, i just graduated from college a few days ago so back when i attended i did just that and saved lots of money. The fast food restaurants and food carts were tempting but i just paid attention to my sandwich and kept eating.
I'm American but I attended school in France for several months at a time each year from 1998-2006. I can confirm they did offer me 4 course meals. They were usually a little appetizer, like a salad or a small serving of pate, followed by a main dish that always included meat. After that would be a cheese course, which was just a little helping of a slice of some kind of French cheese. I absolutely despised camembert and those days were the bane of my existence (I LOVE camembert today). Finally would be dessert, which from memory would often be like fruit with cream or yogurt, or chocolate mousse. I don't remember anything about portion sizes. I wouldn't say the quality was gourmet or the culinary levels always consistent, but it was decently prepared and had a variety of nutrients. I was a child at the time, so my memory of it might be fuzzy, but what I wrote here I definitely recall accurately. I know that French cuisine traditionally places the most important emphasis on the mid-day meal dejeuner, with dinner being a smaller lighter affair. Some kids routinely went home for an hour each afternoon to eat with their families while the rest of us ate at the school. I always wished I could go home so I wouldn't have to eat camembert, but my parents wanted me to get the experience.
As someone from Puerto Rico, growing up, I always loved the food from the Comedor (cafeteria) it was always cooked daily, and it was the best part of the day, honestly! Unfortunately, I had to move to New York in 2011, and the food almost left me traumatized ...
@@1738-l1j In case you're unaware, Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, and the main reason for Puerto Ricans moving to the mainland US is due to the Federal Government. For well over a decade the Federal Government failed to support Puerto Rico after hurricanes and other disasters, defunded the region, closed schools and made life for the average Puerto Rican that of a second class citizen.
Had the same in Australia, infact we had a garden/chicken program (deadass) where children would take turns helping the outside garden grow, feeding the chickens, exercising the chickens and getting outdoorsy time learning how to grow renewable healthy food that was then cooked up by the lunch ladies and given to us (it was always amazing). Unfortunately the teachers normally sucked ass and where immature bullies 90% of the time but I am thankful the school board atleast cared about our health.
What's interesting in the book, "Salt, Sugar, Fat" they talk about the history of this product; which were created to deal with the surplus of deli meats and cheeses in the US at the time. So they sliced them up in kid size, and sold them as a meal for children and it did super well. Basically, Oscar Mayer had an excess of bologna and mothers were complaining they didn't have much time, so...Lunchables solved both problems.
Funny you post this, cause I was just showing my mom a picture of my high-schools extremely dismal lunch. Who cares what kids eat, the money to pay for the sports teams has to come from somewhere I suppose. 🙄
This is the reason why my mom and her sister started something called “The Back Pack Club”, so that kids can get food over the weekend when they don’t have the option of getting school lunch. Having these lunchables in school now, could just make this problem much worse.
@@alexv3372this is a nationwide existing concept. It’s often just called the back pack program, but most school districts have this, or something very similar.
The sad thing is that a much healthier version of Lunchables can be made at home for cheaper. Get a box of whole grain crackers, sliced turkey or ham from the deli, and some real cheese, and throw in as many fruits and veg as you want.
If you shop at sams club you could make a year supply of lunchables for under $60. We always bought those 180 slice blocks of cheese and froze them. We also bought those giant "balls" of sliced turkey. Take 2 slices of each and a handful of crackers and you are still at under $1 and have enough for at least 8 crackers instead of the 4-5 in a lunchables. Slice up an apple and roll in a few drops of lemon juice to keep it from browning and you have a much better meal (although still not healthy) for about a $1.
I went to private school for one year of my life and my favorite part of the day was lunch. The quality difference was unbelievable because it was real food.
I also loved lunch and In private school. I am from Iraq. I get private schools have “better treatment” because you’re paying for it, but no child deserves to have a terrible lunch in my opinion. It’s better to not serve altogether than this sad excuse of “launch”.
As a french person, they do give you a 4-course meal in cafeteria(and options to modify your plate if need be) They also try to source the ingredients locally so we're pretty well-off with school lunches from kindergarten to university (uni restaurants and cafeteria also have a pretty high quality standard as well) And to top it off, in public schools, one meal is something around 3 bucks (same for uni and it's 1€ for people with a scholarship)
I remember that before eating the one and only time pizza I ever ordered in middle school, I took off some of the cheese on top and underneath it was a grayish green color with the sauce and bread… never got another school pizza again lol. By high school I was just bringing in my own lunches
Oh thank goodness I wasn't the only one who experienced that! I always had nausea whenever I ate the school pizza and when I finally looked underneath it the sauce was very similar
Tbh yeah, I ate school lunches maybe once a year if I somehow forgot my lunch. Not like my lunch was glorious, but the one time I got stuck with a chicken patty that tasted like beef, some rotten looking peas and fries that tasted like chicken... I was just so shook that some of my friends were eating these. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY
My school's pizza lunches were vile. They use extremely poor quality ingredients (e.g. the pepperoni), that as an adult you would never deliberately choose to eat.
I think another issue that feeds into this is the modern American obsession with caving to kids, taking the "easier" route of giving them junk because they know the kid will like it (ala "Junk Food Kids"). I work in early elementary and we have a kid whose parents started sending saltine-cracker-and-butter sandwiches because she was picky about everything else. And even those, we have to watch her to make sure she actually eats them before her chips or dessert. I look at those meals from other countries and know that so many students would throw a fit because it looks "icky." I could see many parents looking at the Lunchables and being OK with it because they think, "Well, at least my kid would eat it." We have absolutely trashed our pallets and our kids' with processed food.
Yeah, I agree. So many parents let their kids whine about how much they dislike foods they haven't even properly tried, and then actually cave and let the child eat whatever they want - which of course is just going to be junk. It's not the child's fault they don't have a palate for real food, or that they want to eat sweets and junk. It's your job as a parent to make your kids eat things that won't mess them up for life. I also had things I disliked as a child, but I never managed to out stubborn my mother, so I learned how to eat something I disliked (so long as it didn't make me sick, you know, there is a distinction) quickly and without complaining. And then I could eat the things I did enjoy. And my family, despite being poor, fed me real food. Eating that way naturally creates a preference for real food and gives you a sense for quality and freshness in your food. If you know, you know. If you'd never seen, smelled, or tasted it, you have no idea and no clue you're missing one.
@@rachelclark6393 there are exceptions to this (but exceptions, not a whole school), there are kids with autism and other problems that might actually reduse to eat anything else except for a few safe foods even when hungry, and the solution is not "force then to eat" or "let them starve" but letting them eat what they want and introducing new food one at a time very slowly and without mixing flavours too much (a piece of meat, not a stew; rice and veggies separately, not a risotto).
@@tymondabrowski12 You're absolutely right - this is an issue for a small percentage of kids. And forcing those kids to eat could make things much worse. But as you pointed out, that a comparatively small percentage of kids compared to kids who are just used to eating food designed to be addictive, and have no frame of reference for healthy food also tasting good. So there has to be a healthy balance between those two approaches, which we are currently missing. But I think often better communication would make this a lot easier. Parents are often aware of kids who have an issue like that, so letting the school know would be sensible, I think. And for kids who aren't showing other symptoms or whose parents don't care enough to recognize them, I think the school would need to pay attention and work with them. I don't know that I have a perfect solution for every situation, but I feel strongly that if schools were serving kids healthy food to begin with, and parents were feeding their kids healthy things to begin with, then at least kids who were struggling with food issues would be getting nutrition when they did manage to eat successfully.
@@rachelclark6393 same, and we too were poor. All of this "it's cheaper to feed your children (insert precessed crap here) than to cook, you don't know what it's like being poor" Yes I do and my mother still made fresh, healthy options as a single parent to 3 children. She even said it was cheaper to cook than buy pre packaged, pre made. This makes me so angry. All that it will do is re-enforce the notion (to parents who don't know any better and refuse to educate themselves on what they're feeding little children) that this crap is ok, as they give it in the schools. I can't believe they said on the news "in a move towards healthier eating" it's a paradoy of real life.
Man i was always so jealous of my friends being given money to buy pizza and burgers growing up. Only now i can see how awesome my parents were to send me to school with a basquet of food. Always milk, a termos of warmish food and a piece of fruit. My mom would wake up 5am to cook us food
yeah, as a kid you don't realise that it's bad, but that's precisely the reason why schools shouldn't allow this to happen. if you offer kids burgers and fries, they'll get them, and it's not their responsibility at their age to know better, it would be the school's.
6:42 I'm French, I went to a random public school in the countryside and I can say this is 100% true. It's pretty much the same in many EU countries. From primary school to high school we had full lunches with varied and healthy food. Of course you couldn't get sodas or anything like this. Even for students we have "university restaurants" that serve different full course meals everyday for a discount (1€ if you don't have a lot of money)
@@leaguzzardi7565 I think they're scientific names for sugar but still it's hilarious how "sugar" is often called something like "exocloris syrup" or "salidated glucose" or something like that!
@@nathangaspacio6128 Congratulations! You understand the real problem. Unfortunately the university educated regulators at the FDA who all hold lofty degrees in health and nutrition haven't a clew.
Literally not to mention how many children and adults are deathly allergic to it. Even if it's airborne it can harm so many kids if it's given in schools- it's an atrocious idea.
@@cougaray3166 peanuts and peanut butter sandwiches are already given in school lunches? are u ok? no one is gonna go into shock because someone near them eats an uncrustable.
I am from Germany and I was seriously shook when I came to America for an exchange program. The options there at the school for lunch were just fast food, I desperately searched for something more healthy. I think most of the german students don't eat school food, we bring our own lunches to school, but most primary schools today teach their children to bring healthy and balanced food, the parents get notified as soon as the child brings unhealthy lunch more often or no lunch at all. After my 3 weeks in America I felt I gained some weight and I was so happy to come home and get some good fresh vegetables...
Ich habe 10 Monate in Ohio gelebt und dabei 15 Kilo zugenommen, die ich nachdem ich wieder zuhause war komplett abgenommen habe 😂 ich war dort öfter krank, ich denke man Magen und Darm konnten das Essen nicht richtig verarbeiten. So extrem hatte ich das seitdem nie wieder... Echt gruselig 🥺 an die ganze ranch sauße und die Lunchables kann ich mich auch noch gut errinern...
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My mom is a teacher. I know from her that for a lot of kids, whatever the school offers them could be their only meal of the day, or one of the only two. It's so sad that the USA has a huge addiction to lunchables. The USA has the funds and means to help bring cooked, hot meals to kids. If a child only gets to eat a consistent meal at school, it should be something nice and hearty.
As a kid growing up in canada, I always wanted these. But instead my mom always prepared me a school lunch, every day. I wish I could have appreciated what I had back then. These things look disgusting as an adult. I looooooooooove cooking now, I'm excited to cook my kid the best meals possible when that day comes, even though I know 1000% my kid is gonna beg for these things just like I did when I was young haha.
As a current high school student, I can confirm that they count fries/tater tots/potato wedges as "vegetables." If you take a burger with tater tots, the lunch ladies won't make you take a fruit/veggie. Also, it's funny how other countries serve nutritious meals for kids but our schools are just like "take a small apple or some canned fruit/veggies and you're good lmao"
@@TheReZisTLust but see thats the problem. yeah technically it is a vegetable but it serves the function of being a starch first and foremost in the context of nutrition. vegetables tend to have more fiber, less calories, and more macronutrients. potatoes have some fiber and some macronutrients but loads of calories too if you eat too many. so the idea that potatoes get branded as being just like any other vegetable is the trouble of it. potatoes should rightly be treated as a starch first and foremost, not a vegetable, even if it is technically a root vegetable.
French fries made me fat (gain weight, not fat) in high school. They sold them in big cups, we could get as many as we wanted. They were good so for a lot of kids it was all we had for lunch, and a slice of pizza. The cafeteria was an unlimited buffet of junk with apples and oranges. And of course vending machines that we could use any time during, before, after school. I never liked bringing a bagged lunch until I realized all the garbage in schools and that I couldn’t pig out just because I played sports. My Italian mom already had fattening dinners waiting at home so I had to bring a healthy lunch. Some kids can’t afford to bring something healthy and the schools are supposed to make sure healthy options are available. I even froze my own soy milk to bring to defrost in my locker for lunch.
Sucks that the only food at my school I consider to be consistent in quality is burned pizza... Everything else is just bad. I don't even trust the milk offered
A serving of rice, a bit of beans & a small portion of meat can be so much filling, healthier, tastier & way cheaper that all that processed & artificial junk. As a kid I always skipped lunch because it was horrible & it wasn’t fun being hungry at school specially if you were at school from 6:30 am to 3:30 pm when I was at school. Most times I passed my entire day with a boiled egg & a sandwich as breakfast at home.
Now I'm so grateful for the lunches my highschool provides. I'm from the Czech Republic and our lunches are typically composed of a veggie based soup + you get to choose from two different main courses (normal one and a vegetarian one). Today we had a buckwheat stirfry with veggies, smoked tofu and some cheese. Sometimes we still complain about the lunches we get, but holy I'm SO glad I dont get lunchables as my lunch.
We've got the same standard in Poland and I used to complain that the beetroot side dish one day meant a beetroot soup the next one (I didn't realize they used the surplus beets, I genuinely believed they just gathered the leftover and hated beetroot salad and made it into a soup, haha). I didn't even realized that having soups and veggies every day in school might be a priviledge compared to the menu of the poor kids from the USA :D
As a Swedish person, I can tell that we do have a similar concept, minus the soup. Also we do have a salad section, so we can pick out some nice veggies! I'm definitely glad that I'm not American (plus, we got free health care, lol)!
I graduated from high school last year. The food was so atrocious that my brother and I usually only ate the fruit and drank the milk for lunch. Luckily they always had the cereal option in the morning (which is so small btw, we’ve had the same cereal package since kindergarten). When we got home, we were so hungry that we’d immediately begin snacking or eating food. Now that I’m in college, I weigh less than I did in high school, all because I don’t have to binge in the afternoon anymore!!
Yup every kid in the US comes home starving. They are in school from 8-4, not counting afterschool activities. They are also young with a fast growing metabolism and alot of energy in them. The small portion of breakfast or lunch if its eaten at all arent even enough fuel to carry a person through the 12 hour day. The system is so bad.
Same. The school lunch food is so atrocious and nutrition wise is garbage. It’s literally making everyone unhealthy and feeling garbage so it’s hard to focus in class and the hella long hours for school and with barely any sleep 😭
Same. I had to pack my own lunches, and most times I'd wake up too late to pack it. I would come home and eat three boxes of goldfish crackers, candy, yogurt, cereal, etc etc and then sometimes have to skip dinner because I was too full from the binge.
As a French I've always felt weirded out by how one of the American students that joined us back in junior high school used to describe her lunches in Florida. I always thought she exaggerated to get more accepted there (we were a small junior high school and sadly most of the students were not really accepting of foreigners). And then I started to watch videos about American schools lunches and I truly started to feel sorry about you guys. How is that possible to treat your kids that way, both in the time they get to eat and the food quality? How can you do that to your own kids guilt free ? (I still haven't watched the video so it's more of a rhetorical question,I know I'm going to find answers in the video as it's always been a quality source)
Easily: the ones in charge and teaching usually don't have kids. So, they take out their misery out on the children of adults who chose to have them. Since they, themselves, never had kids and don't want them, of course they feel nothing.
@@IceQueen975 Not sure, it's not the impression I got. Not saying it doesn't exist but I think it's too easy to say it's 100% the fault of people that think that way
@@IceQueen975 What utter nonsense and lies. Also, teachers don't decide what your kids get for lunch for godsakes. Are your state politicians all childless?
@@IceQueen975 Most teachers I know are against the school food, and want MUCH better systems where they can teach real, valuable things and have good interests for children. Sadly, teachers aren't in charge. Teachers don't make the curriculums OR choose what kids eat. We want better for the children and are subjected to working in the same shitty school conditions the kids are in. Yes, adults have more choice, but we're not happy with the system and feel pretty victim to capitalism here, too.
As a Dutchy, it so foreign for me to get lunch at school. But then again, its normal here to eat bread as a lunch (like slices of bread with something like ham, cheese (real cheese), jam or even chocolate sprinkles (yes, its a Dutch thing). We eat cooked meals at dinner, so you can just give your kid their lunch in a lunchbox no problem, maybe add some fruit. It's not the healthiest, but it is deffinatly better then lunchables.
Spongebob tried to warn us as kids years ago, with that episode (Selling Out, IIRC) where the Krusty Krab got sold to the corporate chain and the burgers were replaced with literal garbage painted to look like food. This is literally what the government's doing to the people and barely anyone sees the truth of it.
@@peacemaster8117 I've had a few of those. And a few "ridable" bikes too, usually kept on the road by fixing them in a way a professional would describe as not recommended but "doable".😝
I was in elementary school in the early 2000s. I remember our cafeteria had a soda machine and the school made a huge deal out of replacing all the sodas with “healthy drinks”. Looking back, it was all sugary Minute Maid brand juice from concentrate that had just as much, if not more sugar and calories as a soda. It’s so stupid I can’t help but laugh. I thought fruit juice was healthy for the longest time because of that and I would drink it like it was water!
Man, i feel you on the fruit juice thing. I felt betrayed whenever I learned that fruit juice is basically as bad for you as soda! I felt dumb for not knowing, but it’s really shoved down our throats.
Dayuuum. Dystopia goes hard with that one. My "lunches" in Poland were just like normal meals. Sometimes patatoes with meat/eggs, sometimes soups, and once a week something in lines of pancakes or fries. My f*cking dog eats healhier than US kids!
True. The only bad dish was mortadela which was some kind of fried ham. Everyone skipped on this one. True that dogs in Poland get healthier food than people in USA. Weirdly enough parameters for dog food are more restrictive than for food for humans when it comes to food from supermarkets
i loved mortadela, and everyone around me loved it as well... i havent had it in years and recently ive been craving that childhood taste of mortadela in crumbs. yum
The school lunch situation in US is mind boggling. How country so rich can have a "food shortage" is beyond me. Meanwhile I come from a small polish town and the lunches we got in primary school (that was more than a decade ago though, they might have have gotten worse because of how inept our current government is) were tasty and hearty. And I actually miss some of them. There were always two courses, one of which was always a soup which if I recall correctly you could have as much as you want.
The country isn't rich. Not in that way. It has rich people in the country controlling government. That's why this is something that happens. Everyone else is almost objectively poor by comparison to 1960's standards. Do you really think a few people are sitting there thinking lunchables are a good food option? Or do you think someone behind the scenes might be playing things so that they can sell more processed food? That's why this problem won't get solved till things change. The entire government needs to be reformed in a way that makes it resilient against corruption and influence. That's a HUGE reason for the decline in USA, Canada. 1-2 party government democracies that are easily corrupted, as it's winner takes all. It's why there's left vs right fights all the time. Only 3 other countries in the world use a similar democracy style to the US/CAN. And they all have similar issues. The hundred others using multi-party don't have these issues, or at least not as bad. They form coalition governments, and it's much harder for stupidity like this to pass.
As a Mexican This is a crime against humanity. This should not exist at all. This is an insult to every chef, cook, and culinary culture that has ever existed. The UN should look into this.
I’m from Sweden, and I’m also currently a student. Our food is really, really good. Of course, people in school thinks the food tastes bad, but personally I think that we have such a luxury since our food is free (of course from taxes but you get my point, students doesn’t pay) and it’s nutritious! It’s so sad to see that other countries students have to eat some of these things!
In America school lunch is normally little Caesars pizza, apple sauce that tastes like water, milk that's almost always spoiled, a water if you have 2$, a salad that's drenched in ranch and yes the burgers are basically slop as one sides soggy and the others burnt. And the government thinks lunchables are better which is not true both are horrible
@@GoldenRosesss how much does the food cost u because if its 10 dollars at that point I would just go to the closest mall and buy food from there the american food looks like its taken straight from trash
I used to think cafeteria food was the worst But then I started to see horror stories from the USA and I now understand that even if wasn't up to par with homecooking, the food was at worst decent and sometimes very good.
Coming from a thrid world country, I'm still shocked kids don't just bring their own lunch, or are American parents lazy? Cause here there is no such thing as a cafeteria with food. You either bring food or you don't eat. 😂
I'm from Brazil and I can say that our school food is mostly like that photo and is really tasty, when I was a kid my mother worked as a lunch lady and I loved when she was able to bring some leftovers, specially when it was fish. And until this day I have lunch and dinner at my college because it's so cheap and tasty (it normally is rice, black beans and some meat or vegan option), it's so weird to see kids eating what they eat in the US.
As another brazillian, I think it’s because of poverty, lots of children in public schools only eat at school, so we make sure the meals are nutritious.
@@veganpelosanimais1216 nos da faculdade sim, mas pra criança/adolescente eu não tenho certeza, mas imagino que também tenha já que alimentação vegana geralmente é muito mais barata que carne aqui.
I don't remember ever eating actual food in schools here in Brazil, perhaps in kindergarden, I vaguely remember bringing an orange home with me because I couldn't find a way to peel it at school 😂. In elementary we had to buy some snacks from the cafeteria then went home to have lunch. In high school I studied the whole day and would have lunch at restaurants or brought food from home if I didn't have money. But yesss, college food was amazing and I honestly loved it. I would pick vegan option most of the times even not being vegan because it tasted amazing and had lots of variety.
In Japan, both the students and teachers are served the same thing. My friend who works as a teacher posts pictures of their lunches and they're often given vegetable stew, egg omelette and miso soup!
Yeah, my kid goes to a Japanese school and his lunches look delicious. Mostly locally-sourced seasonal vegetables, and all cooked fresh on premises. Very similar to Korean lunches which also look great, so probably no surprise that their obesity rates are so low. Everyone eats the same thing, often in the classroom together.
as a post-student in the U.S. I can confirm the teachers wouldn't dare go anywhere near the school lunch, which very often was barely considered food and designed to be the cheapest consumable form of bare nutrients
In Italy teachers also eat the same thing as the children. I usually had a school 3 serving, Including salad, pasta or rice, fish or meat with vegetables and dessert (fruits or pudding )
I studied in the philippines and I couldn't wrap my head around how americans feed their kids literal junk food and call it "lunch". We weren't even allowed to bring sodas and chips to school.
One time two of my friends were served chunky, foul tasting, slime textured milk. When they alerted a staff member to this, the staff simply poured out the most chunky parts, and returned the still chunky milk. I don’t think I have to tell you which country this took place in. Edit: I also want to add that said staff member said my friends were the sixth time that had happened that day, so it was reoccurring.
i know this was 4 months ago, but something similar to this happened at my school as well. i’d say atleast half of the people in the cafeteria got served weirdly chunky milk, as described in your comment. it was a pretty long ago
If parents give their kids this to school, the parents will get a talk with the principle and if they keep doing it with child support in The Netherlands.
As a Spaniard, calling those lunchables, "food", is an insult to the entire history of human culture and cuisine. That... thing, that disgusting pink paste, shouldn't be classified as food by anyone, anywhere, for any reason. It looks disgusting.
the worst part about it is that in the meantime literal death row inmates are served better food on a day to day basis in the US. like somehow they can afford human decendy to their prisoners but can't do the same to their kids.
@@wildlifewarrior2670 you are aware that the only reason "it tastes good" is because if all the artificall chemicals thry put in it, it's like saying that drugs taste super good and that gourmet chefs should use it for their receipe.
I work in France in a high school and it’s totally true about their school meals. They’re four courses with a vegetable first course (carrot salad, half a grapefruit, tomatoes and mozzarella in summer, radish salad in winter) a main course with stuff like cod or salmon, tagines or chicken pasta, then a cheese course with various kinds of local cheeses (brie, blue cheese or Gouda being common) then a dessert of yogurt, fruit or sometimes more exciting stuff like tiramisu. They are always served with a piece of baguette and only water is offered to drink. Wine sometimes is available for the teachers which made me smile. They do all this for around €3 per meal, and of course it’s free to poorer kids. Although most parents paid the fee as it was so small. Obesity here is exceptionally rare, maybe one or two kids like that in a whole school. So many countries could learn from France 🇫🇷
@@CordeliaWagner REAL cheese is fine and healthy, it has vitamins, calcium, and lot of proteins. It's obviously high in calories because of its high fat content but it's not a problem since it is served in small portions at school. Most of these cheese are made from milk, rennet and salt, and that's it, not a single ultra processed ingredient.
I was jealous and embarrassed as a kid since I always brought packed lunch as my mother and father both worked and never received aid, and they could not afford for me to get school lunch everyday. Now I appreciate the fact that my parents fed me normal and nutritious meals not these nasty garbage school lunches.
Post-USSR here. When I was in school, we had two main lunch programs (if I can call it that) - the paid one and the free one. Free meals consisted only of breakfast that was usually porrige with an apple or a yoghurt and some tea, it was enough actually, sometimes I didn't even eat the porridge as it looked gross to me. Paid meals also included lunches, that were two-course meals (soup+main dish, cutlets with buckwheat or rice or something like that) with tea or juice and a piece of cake. It was also subsidied for children from big or poor families. Knowing that in some other countries they just serve a freaking CRACKER and call it a day... kills me, really.
My parents had me eating school lunches all the way up until high school. I was fat throughout all of my schooling until high school. My grandmother began making me healthy and nutritious meals to take for lunch and I dropped the weight very quickly. Playing football probably played a part too but I am grateful she made sure I got the right food.
6:17 former prison guard here. Schools and prisons usually share contracts for food distribution. Many school lunches are served to prisoners and vice versa. Yes, these likely means that lunchables could be served in prisons if the caloric requirements are met.
used to be involved in food contracts for schools and prisons and yes a lot of it is the same good except for the branded stuff. so prison probably wouldn't get lunchables but they are both eating Cargill or Michael Foods liquid egg, I forget the veggie brand but it's the same, they both get Foster Farms corn dogs, etc the main thing is they both get commodity products as in the government pays prisons and schools to take excess beef, cheese, and eggs off their hands because American farms produce more supply than there is demand so they are subsidized. the only difference is the branded stuff and snacks, for example prisons get malt o meal when schools get general mills, and the schools get PepsiCo chips, crackers, other packaged branded snacks. student stores are even better for corporations because they don't have to meet any nutrition requirements.
Lunchables used to be so hot in my elementary school that I'd insist to my parents that they let me bring that stuff instead of the healthy, homecooked meal I used to bring as a child. Only reason I ever insisted was because everyone else was gobbling them up and you were considered "cool" for having it.
Which is crazy because lunchables are so fucking nasty. Pieces of wet ham with processed cheese and crackers 🤢 what’s worse is that shit did not fill you up
When I was a kid in the 90s, Lunchables were the shit. My parents let me have them a couple of times, but most of the time I was just envious of the other kids who brought them for lunch. Like "dude, you got Lunchables! Gimme some!" 🥺🥺
Tonight (4-11-24), Norah O'DONNELL reported on the CBS news that Lunchables, were reported to be taken out of the typical American school systems...... amazing 🤩😍🤩!!! You got to it first, Kiana 😉. Keep up the Great work in keeping us healthy ☺️. Thank you and God bless!!! Miss Monique 🙂🌷🙏🕊️
I’m from England, and despite the arguably unpredictable nature of our school dinners (especially the strange disparity between the quality of primary school and secondary school food) I can tell you with one hundred percent certainty that ‘Lunchables’ would never pass as proper food here, especially since the Jamie Oliver Incident. It’s appalling what’s happening over there. I would take a mushy jacket potato with tuna, beans and cheese + apple crumble with custard any day…
@Tristan Cheng Tuna? Protein. Potato? Starchy carb. Cooked apples? Fruit. Custard? Possibly a bit of dairy, unlikely to be made with eggs unless home made, but even so that is actually food. Even if you wouldn't eat it.
@@lauren8627 FYI: what I mentioned in my comment is a caricature of the ‘other’/tertiary menu option available at a British school - an average educational institution’s weekly menu would usually consist of a range of meals including meats, poultry, fish, cooked vegetables, salads, vegetarian/halal/vegan options and yes, desserts. From my experience, all of our food was also prepared fresh by a team of cooks. (Even so, our ‘bare minimum’ is still better than Lunchables…)
Not British but studied there for a year (boarding school). I bribed my doctor (yes, literally paid him) to give me the “oh no I have gut problems” slip to get the food I actually ate. I’m a very picky eater - I wanted blanched veggies, slightly grilled chicken breast, baked/roasted proteins and my effing salad. I also happen to despise potatoes and anything fried with a burning passion - it was everywhere. Every weekend found me (we could leave for the town) either at the local organic store or one of the local restaurants gorging myself on salads. Local walgreens also knew me by my name and face - the dorm’s kitchen was stocked up with my salad ingredients THAT NO ONE EVEN CARED TO TOUCH.
As a French person I can confirm that parents would literally have a HEARTATTACK if lunchables were served to kids at French schools, and yes we do have full course meal with proteins and vegetables in most schools 🤌🏻🤌🏻
Ye but they still suck. Pasta will be half assed just boiled in water without even butter, 1 in 10 veggies will be dry and tbh the quality of the products seems to be the lowest you can go. Whenever there is chicken for example, i dont even eat it because it tastes like the 8€ per kilogram trash you will see at the bottom of a refrigerator in a store.
I'm from a european country, I usually didn't get a lunch at school, I lived nearby and my mom cooked at home, but I remember in primary school there was a cafeteria and parents could buy meals for their kids (and poor families get them for free) - menu was like normal home dinner. And the smell from the kitchen was amazing! Few times I ate there it was really tasty. Usually there was soup+main course and salad+dessert+kompot (delicious fruit drink made by cooking fruits). For some time there was also a program to make kids drink milk, so every student got milk to drink for free. In high school there was no cafeteria. Tiny store in school sold sweets, drinks, but also - quite healthy, like-home-made sandwiches. The lady running it would buy ham, cheese, butter, salad , veggies and fresh rolls from a bakery in the morning, and make sandwiches in the back. Later I think they even had some simple salads. I have no idea how the most powerful nation on earth could serve their kids such garbage, wtf america.
I came from Vietnam to America back in 5th grade, and when I tell you I was not prepared for the school lunches? I meant it, I was literally shocked. I don’t know WHAT they served, but the first time I decided to eat school lunch, they were serving something that is PINK wrap around some GREEN fillings that I’m pretty sure was NOT vegetable or beans. Next to it is some GREEN PASTE that I was able to identify as the vegetable. Then runny and watery corns. Of course there is also the milk carton that taste like water. The difference with what I was given back in my country was surreal that after I just don’t eat school food at all😅
I am french and I used to hate school lunches, I remember many things like rice or lentils tasted so bad because they were canned which I wasn't used to... lol now I realize how good we had it!! At least the structure of a balanced meal was there : some sort of salad as entree, main course with a protein, a grain, and veggies, and dairy product and fruit as dessert. I have heard of lunchables but I didn't know they were actually served at school, and I never actually saw what's inside... it's... tragic. Like you said, it's more like "food-like substances"
I remember when I went to Italy for a college trip to study art history we stayed at a sort of boarding school type place with individual dorms and classrooms and such. We got fresh breakfasts, lunches, and dinners there when we weren't out exploring for the day. Lunch ladies would come in and prepare *fresh* meals for us every single day, and it was honestly the best food I've ever had in my life. They were so *filling* and healthy and actually made me want to try new foods that I'd never tried before because they looked and smelled so good! The ladies would make fresh bread and buns for us every morning, prepare and cook sausages and bacon, or giant slabs of seasoned pork loin or turkey, or fresh (not instant) pasta with homemade sauces, fresh vegetables like salad greens and carrots packed with so much flavor they didn't need any salt or pepper! There were a few pre-packaged foods available as extra snacks like pudding cups or yogurts but Italy's pudding and yogurt was so vastly different from the American types that I couldn't eat that stuff here in America when I returned home. They would also give us packed paper bag lunches to take with us when we were out for the day and it was *loaded* with the best sandwiches imaginable. Fresh breads with freshly shaved turkey or ham with *real* flavorful cheeses, a wonderfully delicious piece of fruit (usually an apple or pear that were good enough to be dessert), fresh juice, and a little dessert thing that was, again, usually pre-packaged, but at least the Italians know how to make decent sweets that don't make you sick. If we had even half as good foods as I ate at that boarding school here in the states our kids would not be such picky eaters nor addicted to sweets and fats.
What pisses ME off is that I pay around $8,000/yr in school taxes and most of the money goes to teacher benefits and pensions. The kids are served prison rations.
My parents migrated from Sri Lanka to Australia in the 80s. They never ate anything packaged over there. And when I say never ate anything packaged I mean like they took bottles to the sesame oil making place (not a factory - hand churned) and filled bottles amongst many other foods/grains where people came to your home to prepare it such as flours and powders and you just package it whatever container you have at home, so no plastics either. They are mostly seafood for protein as it was cheap and ate an Ayurvedic diet. I.e. the food was based off not just nutrition but also combinations of food were important - certain foods were not meant to be eaten together. The taste of food had to hit all 6 tastes etc. No one ate outside. People didn’t even eat at each others homes because there was nothing like home cooked food. My mum didn’t own a fridge til she was much older and my dad didn’t have one so they ate fresh everyday. The fish monger came to your house to sell fish. Everyone had cows and chickens for milk/eggs at home. The lived a highly sustainable life. Very little waste as they used literally all parts of fruits and vegetables. For example we eat jackfruit and use the seeds for jackfruit seed curry. Yard and home maintenance was used with all natural products from plants or cow dung.
Ah yes. Feed the kids well but socially isolate them and let them grow up unable to academically compete with their peers in any meaningful capacity. The American dream.
I know a good number of people who were homeschooled and they’re doing great in college and arguably more socially adjusted than a lot of the people I knew in public school. Plus, I got an awful education at my school. I never learned how to learn or any necessary job skills, only how to memorize and parrot things. I wish I went to the school of “I do my math then mom takes me outside to look at bugs” maybe I wouldn’t have had to learn how to learn new things effectively at the age of 19
I'll always remember the time in elementary school when me and my friend tried to start a petition to get better school lunches but were shut down by the higher ups. LOL we were too radical I guess
As a French person, I can testify that yes, we used to have a meal with three courses at school : salad, meat+veggies or carbs ( pastas, rice...) and a dessert (usually a yogurt or cheese), we would drink only tap water and some schools are even doing collabs with local farmers, providing veggies without gmo/organic. At university, it was even better cuz there were many options, mostly healthy ones.
The French are at their best health-wise, when they don't worry about whether their food is healthy. What matters is quality, flavour, and variety. It is an attitude from which other nations would benefit greatly.
I’m a teacher in a school in a major city, every student is allowed a free breakfast and lunch, and you should see the garbage they feed these kids especially at breakfast. So much sugar and so very little of anything else; milk and cereal bars (Cocoa Puffs/fruit loops)pastries filled with sugary fillings, cookies they call “biscuits”, pop tarts, flavored yogurts, it’s horrible. They do get a fresh fruit most mornings though and they really eat the hell out of those…small win 😵💫
yup - I worked in schools across 4 states and it's generally pretty crappy. My current school occasionally looks better, but so many kids don't eat the vegetable or take the fruit. It's really sad. The breakfasts are definitely usually worse than the lunches and cause the kids to sugar crash and be hungry later.
I’m French and didn’t know those kind of things existed 👀 how is that allowed in schools ??? And we really have 4 courses meals ! (It’s not always tasty😂)
Student from Latvia here For lunch, we have the main dish (buckwheat with cutlets, pasta with beef, potato with salad) some soups, and a dessert (debessmanna, biezpiena platsmaize, or any fruit). I see why people don't like America...
I went to High School in France and I can confirm that the lunches were bomb. We had bread, cheese, fish, salads, soup, fruits and the dessert options were pie, tart, yogurt, fruits and fruit salad. There were many meal options, and sometimes they'd serve french fries or pasta but the menu varied everyday and there were different menus too. There were also vegan and halal menus
On a school excursion to france, we got these terrible dry french fries when we visited a french middle school. I was 16 at the time so my standards really werent that high😂 They really finessed us out of a healthy delicious meal Glad you got the good stuff tho :)
In my school in Greece, bringing lunch from home was VERY common. We did have a canteen that offered a variety of both healthy and unhealthy options but the healthy options were so expensive...🤣 The French school lunch sounds great!
Same in Romania. We did have a "lunch program" sponsored by the government, but it went down in our history as the "croissant and milk" program. What we received was a crescent-shaped bread roll and 250ml of milk every. single. day. Milk would sometimes be substituted for cream cheese or yoghurt, and the bread roll for biscuits or a muffin. Now, from a nutritious point of view, that might sound bad, but considering the level of poverty in rural areas, this was often the heftiest and maybe only meal a child would get. The fancier schools in bigger cities *did* (and still do) offer cooked lunches that children usually have to pay for, but yeah, I also grew up bringing my own lunch. Considering that Romanian schools didn't offer a proper lunch break, it usually meant it was a sandwich eaten during the breaks between classes or sneaking it during class lol
I started school in a small school in the U.K. (I am American) Delicious prepared meals by ONE chef. She was so sweet and was an amazing cook. Some kind of meat/chicken, fresh vegetables, whole grain carb, and always desert! Moving to the U.S and eating school lunch (4th-7th) was horrible for me. The food was always gross, and or had no flavor. I bring my own lunch to school because I’ll actually eat something at lunch. Imagine these children who already struggle in school, who will have to eat GARBAGE and go back to class. Our government only cares about profit, and not it’s people.
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Can you look at UK school lunches. The UK slays it.
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Have you seen the school lunches in Japan. They are super healthy they are planned out with the parent's knowing a full month in advance what they will be getting.
The menu also says where it came from, and the nutritional value of each item, and total caloric intake.
There is also a rule that they have to eat everything on their plate my friend told me that they once had a few grains of rice and they didn't take his bowl till he had ate them.
Oh right that's one other thing they do. Students are in charge of handing out the meals and collecting them to teach them responsibility and leadership (Something the kids seem to really enjoy)
There is also a system where if you want more you can ask for more but you still only have the same time to eat as everyone else. The idea being that the kids will learn that by overeatting they won't feel so go when they then try and go and play with their friends after eating.
Overall it's far better than the school lunches I had in school which was just Pizza or burgers.
@@mstly4lg I think they do now. My sister told me they have really good meal in primary school but when I was at school 14ish years ago it was just pizza and chips
I was always embarrassed that my Mom packed my school lunches but looking back I’m super grateful. She would pack an apple with peanut butter (might sound bad but she always bought the kind with peanuts as the only ingredient) and a sandwich with whole wheat bread, cheddar cheese, mustard and chicken breast that she roasted and shredded.
Thank you Mom 😭
Yep I had the same situation, looking back being the bag lunch kid was a huge nutritional advantage.
Oh my goodness. Peanut butter does not sound bad to me. When will we stop picking on each other?
@@GhostofMrsMuir1443 Most peanut butter has palm oil and sugar added to it, it’s better to get the kind with peanuts as the only ingredient.
I remember lower jncome kids in highschool who got handed a roll of biscuits for lunch and said something about always eating fruit n bread for lunch. My mom prepacked my lunchbox..
I'm 30 years old and endorse an apple with peanut butter as a highly satisfying substitute to potato chips. I gained 70 pounds from my second bout of covid that has still been impacting my health from September 2022. Since I have brain fog and fatigue, I can't be nearly a quarter as active as I used to be. Trying to replace junk food with fruits and fruit and yogurt based smoothies. Also been trying more vegetables with cheese sauce instead of eating anything other than home made French fries as a meal side. The apple is satisfying since it has that crunch like a potato chip does. I do adore the crunch.
Tl dr; Go apples with peanut butter!
The real tragedy is that lunchables in school does the most harm to poor kids who are already disproportionately likely to be obese.
Almost like its deliberate what the government is doing to the people
Malnutrition too. Its a lot of empty calories
Dude, when are you going to realize that the people who run this shit are trying to do everything they can to put eugenics in place and delete poor people from existence.
@@judyh3707 Malnutrition and obesity often go hand in hand. It's not really a surprise but people who don't know about the subject (not talking about you, just overally) rarely even think about it.
In addition to malnutrition, it sets the kids up for a rough future of being addicted to processed food. Those kids keep eating the processed food, which tastes yummy and is affordable, and it becomes a profitable cycle for food manufacturers. It really is so upsetting that governments allow this to happen.
My grandma (back in the 50’s and 60’s) was a lunch lady in a U.S. public school. She recalls actually cooking the food from scratch everyday. After a while, schools began to outsource to large corporations and that’s when US school lunches took a nosedive. The so-called “food” our schools now serve isn’t even fit for a dog.
We forget that food is also a part of an education. We need to teach kids was normal food is supposed to look like. But instead, we funnel money to corrupt corporations that don’t have our kids best interest at heart
It actually is pretty much dog food. The meat grades used in school lunches is the same grade used in dog food. We don't feed our animals very well either.
Not to mention that this is the fuel we’re providing to children to sustain their attention and learn
No dog should ever be fed this kind of poison...
my aunt is the head lunch lady at a school and she fought to get and keep the food made from scratch, and the school isn't even in the wealthiest area, kinda the opposite actually, and they're able to make healthy and good meals for the kids. I honestly wish there were more people like her who care about what kids are eating
Government and corporations are walking hand in hand pretty blatantly these days. So many ultra-rich politicians who don't earn that money above the table.
As an immigrant my parents didn’t have the money to buy pre-packaged food or they just don’t know what some of these heavily processed food products are due to English inadequacy, so they always pack me bentos or warm homemade food in insulated containers. I used to be embarrassed because other students would be eating these flashy colourful packages of food, and I just felt “poor” and “un-westernized”. Now I am just sooooo glad I never got the chance to touch these garbage food. 😂
Same I used to be embarrassed when it was lunch but after a while my friend s would comment on my food and say it smelled delicious and I was always super proud lol
dam i wish that was me getting bentos
Same but the other way. I didn't have TV, didn't have Nike and Addias clothes, didn't have a Disney pencil and pencil case and school backpack, didn't have branded snacks.
I though we were too poor for all those.
I realised when I entered college that my parents were in the top 5-10% of income. And all those were signs of poverty but wealth ...
The power of brands on children brains is incredible. It convinced me, a rich kid, that I was poor because I didn't have any of their branded products.
Yeah, I went through a similar experience as a preteen while starting middle school. I was on a very-temporary gluten/casin-free diet at a time when that diet was lesser known/talked about, so I can remember being a bit embarrassed that I ate lunch from little soup canteens and lunch bags.
Looking back at it now, I'm glad I ate my own lunches throughout middle-school and high-school.
Yeah, I got to eat Lunchables for a bit in eighth grade as a convenient lunch option that both me and mom decided on. Really called Lunch Mate since it was in Canada. Then later when I wasn’t satiated from one or two of them, maybe THREE, we figured out it wasn’t a lunch, IT WAS A SNACK and I started getting thermoses with soups from the Russian store and Amy’s soups, rice and chicken, healthy thermos stuff that it took Mom a few mins to make. I’m pretty sure the lunches after Lunch Mate were basically what you’d expect an Asian to have but im ethnic white and my ethnicity is half Russian lol🧸
The issue isn't kids eating garbage. It's a large company coming to an agreement with the government to give that stuff to kids. Kids won't have the best diets of the world, but the government doesn't seem to even be interested in kids growing up to be healthy. Can't go with "fight obesity" afterwards, if you actively support the foundations of it when they're young.
Can’t make patients for life if you don’t feed em crap
100% this. Thank you!
Yeah, but if there is something you have 100% of sure you can control sth, it's you kid's diet, your own diet. Maybe yeah, the goverment doesn't care much and compamies even less, but you have to care. Otherwise you will just be another person who complain and do nothing
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The issue is the parents feeding their kids garbage that these companies make. Children can’t decide what’s put on their plate, their caregivers decide that, so I’d say it’s the parents and companies faults
Hey Kiana. I'm French.
This is a random menu from my daughter's school lunch this week, so what you're showing is pretty accurate:
- Starter : Celery salad
- Main : Roasted chicken (or egg as a vegetarian option), Pommes noisettes (mashed potatoes with pâte à choux shaped into balls and roasted), mushroom, sauce (wee love our sauces lol)
- Satsuma
- Yogurt
Notice There's several veggies and fruits and they are seasonal, and we do have some pleasure ingredients (pommes noisettes are basically round fries). In my council most ingredients are organic and we have a kitchen preparing everything daily from scratch with fresh ingredients for the 4 schools in the area.
We Pay 4,50€ per meal (roughly the same price as a happy meal at MacDonalds in France), but meals are subsidised by our council for low income families (free for them).
Looking at American meals for me is like looking at a dystopic documentary, so terrible this is seriously considered a good option for the children I have a hard time believing it's true, although it sadly is.
Back in my day, circa 2002, majority of the kids from higher income families, myself included, had their parents pack their lunches. The kids from lower income families were the only ones eligible for free school lunches, which is all cheap processed garbage. I pretty much stopped eating lunch all together when I got to high school. I'm sure nothing has changed as of late.
@@TheOpethOfMastodon I think it really depends on your council as every city has different processes. As I said I m in a smaller council (4 schools) so that might factor in. Even in the local private school (same kitchen as the 3 public ones) all parents have their kids eat the school lunch. I am wiling to acknowledge I might live in a privileged area, however I also know many councils where lunch offer has improved since my childhood in the 90s (chatting with parents living in other areas, including the town I and them grew up in).
On a side note, free lunch never has been and still isn't for everyone. I did mention it was for low income families.
Thats too much dairy. Dairy is unhealthy, even if it's yogurt.
@@nadias6435 umm no its not
Hi, in Germany food in school is also the cheapest. :(
The fact that lunchables has the audacity to call that monstrosity “pizza” was red flag number one.
Interesting that Sen. John Kerry is married to a "Heinz" heiress.
It's the saddest pizza I've ever tasted.
They're my #1 guilty pleasure 😭 they're not pizza, but they are delicious every once in a while
I never liked it
Ngl, I loved lunchable's pizza as a kid. Haven't had it in a while so I dont know how ill like it now.
I had the horror of getting lunchables from school this past year, when me and my friends saw it we straight up laughed and were disgusted that they were feeding us this crap to high school seniors btw. American food and school system is a literal joke. We’re lowkey collapsing as a country if this stuff keeps happening. Which it will.
This is why you don't let corporations anywhere near government.
@@stevenhenry5267most of the tine the government pays contractors to do stuff. You just need a government that doesnt take the cheapest shit they can find and actually enforce their laws
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Not about cheap. You could hire a trained chef and serve a fresh 5 course meal for less than we pay these contracted companies to poison kids with crap. It's been proven many times.
We just need to crack down on lobbying and make it more legally penalizing
I remember as a teen learning that the CEO wouldn't feed his own kids Lunchables because they weren't healthy... It's honestly embarrassing that they're probably going to get away with doing this.
Same goes for tablets, phones and social media, the people involved in the tech don't let their kids on them. More people should think about why that is before shoving a tablet in a kids hand and letting youtube babysit it.
imagine you’re dad being the creator of lunchables and you’re not allowed to eat them, that not right
@@frostreaper1607 I Doubt that
@Ibrahim Anser then he should take down the app if he won't let his kids on it
@Ibrahim Anser sure 😂
I used to teach at a school in Southeast Asia which consisted mostly of very economically poor students. Even then, the school was able to provide free school meals to their 2500+ student body. These meals were often rice with stir fried meat and vegetables.
There's NO reason why we can't provide our youth with a basic nutritious meal.
The obvious corruption in the American school system is sickening.
I was born in the worst economic crisis of my country here in South America. I used to eat lunch at my kindegarten (that was also public and free), and the lunch was also free. The food was so good I still remember it up to this day. I wasn't starving but I'd be excited to have lunch at school everyday.
The biggest problem with the US is that people don't realize that when there's a need, there are resources if the government distributes them well to the correct places. Giving money to a corporation that sells garbage food isn't distributing those resources well. If a small country going through hardship can feed their children, "one of the richest countries in the world" can do it too.
I think this, more than anything, nails in how blatantly obvious and bad the corruption of school meals is here. It's very obviously not an issue of funding and "supply shortages".
I don't think it's a matter of corruption, here in Mexico (at least in CDMX and surroundings) governments usually give breakfasts to low-income children and young people, and they are decent despite the fact that the budget leaks everywhere
I feel like it's more because of the fast food culture and the fact that companies in the US don't have any kind of penalty for doing those things.
Yeah bro it's not an an accident I love how people are still confused by this. There is no problem to solve it's simply done on purpose to keep you as unhealthy as possible. If it was up to them you'd be dead right now but they can't do thay yet so gotta make sure everyone is sick
@@ykonratev fast food corporations will be greasing the wheels of the politicians who struck the deal bet
The idea that Lunchables are touted as "healthier" than the previous school-lunch offerings is frankly terrifying.
Agree 100%
lunchables we’re the best thing as a kid, depressing? Nope
I think Lunchables at least look better than some...OTHER THINGS served for school lunch to be honest....
@@DrawciaGleam02 we all ate lunchables growing up and we’re fine, people just need to suck it up and deal with it
What's even scarier is if that's actually the case lol
As a small child, I remember wishing I could have lunchables like all the other kids in the cafeteria, but they were always a "special occasion" sort of food in my house. I always wanted them instead of the same carrots, sandwich, apple, etc. that I had every day.
Now, I'm so happy my mother didn't let me eat that processed "food" everyday. It's honestly horrifying that kids are fed this on a regular basis.
I grew up desperately poor, so often times lunch at school was the only meal I could reliably get every single day. I think if I got given a bloody Lunchable vs an actual meal for my lunch I'd have cried.
Honestly... 3.5 oz of meat alternative and grain alternative processed into a handful of nitrate-laden, barely chewable discs... 3.5 oz?! It's not only gross, it's insulting and insufficient.
Yo, that's a one more problem with school lunches!
All children get the same portion size, no matter if they're, say, 4th grade or 9th grade.
Dude I was poor poor . I smelled like cat piss poor . I would see kids get pack Lunchables and I envied them . They would show them off and what not . I got county food and it was shitty . Trust me I would prefer a Lunchables over what they served in the 90s in California.
just be happy you didnt get gunned down while in class followed by some disingenuous "thoughts and prayers" from the governor and local politicians at your funeral.
@@drewt1717 And it costs way more too.
"pushing for healhier lunches" it was actually jaw dropping that they framed LUNCHABLES as a healthy lunch
Pushing for increased profits is what they meant
They took away pizza pockets and real pancakes when Michele started the lunch reforms
Now they get food that's even worse and not even 1-50 as filling
So in what way are lunchables not healthy? too much salt? boohoo. They are actually dense sources of calories protein and minerals. Unlike the shit served on the tray.
Even as a kid 30 years ago, I knew that Lunchables were garbage and I cannot fathom them getting better over time with ingredients getting cheaper
Were you all around when they declared pizza a vegetable for school nutrition?
Love how america both has an obesity problem and yet the free school lunch is sometimes the only meal kids receive in a day.
And it’s so disgusting.
And to add to that- our food pantries have nothing but boxed and processed food. So if you’re eating only that? Yup. You’re probably going to be obese.
Hahaha... "free" 😂
@yauskszilla9900it is about your health, not only weight
lunchables are good tho, im glad they are bringing them into schools@@veriticus
I've moved to Finland from the US for school. My university has several cafeterias. The finnish and other EU students were saying it was just okay for 2.5€. The American students were raving about how tasty and healthy this cafeteria lunch is compared to home. The other students were baffled. So we told them stories of the US school lunches.
This was my experience as an American student in Finland too. I ended up staying in Finland for 8 years because i really didnt want to come back to America because the food here is so atrocious lmao
When I taught at a public school in Korea, I ate lunch in the cafeteria every day, and got the same tray as all the students. We had the best cooks, such flavorful nutritious stuff, rice, soup, veggies, meat, kimchi, plus a slice of fruit or a little Yakult drink to finish. I paid about $3 for it. I miss that. Also enjoyed joining the post-lunch ritual of hundreds of kids brushing their teeth after eating 😁 Korea does have issues with neglecting mental health, but they really make physical health a priority
Mmmm….
@@Lilboozibert _Any_ is an absolute. As the birthrate declines, there will still be *some* kids around, so there will be a need for schools and good school lunches 🌶🥬🍚
@@Lilboozibert Low birthrate doesn't equal to no births at all.
I’m more surprised at the time set aside to brush teeth. I cannot see that happening here. The kids that brushed their teeth would be bullied.
@@dancingdragon3 It's cultural, a common ritual, and serves a practical purpose. Korean food has spicy red pepper and garlic, so it's nice to clean the mouth afterwards. In the public school, all teachers and students take off one whole hour together, midday. Communal eating is a vital part of Korean culture. Many kids rush the food line as soon as the bell rings, everybody eats, then brushes, then spends the rest of the hour as they choose. People at slightly different paces, but very communal experience.
With the communal eating, the communal dental hygiene just kind of makes sense 😊
As a French student I confirm that I’ve always been served a 4 course meal including
- a cold starter like salad, fresh vegetables, chickpeas, eggs, avocado…
- a main course always including a protein, vegetables and starches
- a dairy product like yoghurt or cheese
- a desert and/or a fruit
I am actually shocked learning what’s being served as “school lunch” in the US, cmon you were supposed to act like a developed country
As a brasilian student i have at college one meal a day; its a salad that was surely clean using vinegar; rice and beans; one kind of meat and its real meat not ultra proceced meat; and one side dish along with the meat; they also have a vegan version where instead of meat they give a highly nutricious vegetable and a fruit or a desert; public schools also give that same dish to kids but twice a day
French school meals were a delight! Encouraged proper attention to food in general
The US is really only developed economically. Everything else is sacrificed for economic supremacy
@@Marshmellowed Not necessarily a "delight", but at least when I was in school 10 years ago it was relatively healthy with at least vegetables and fruits. We even had a salad bar at some point. To me this is scandalous this is even considered acceptable as a meal for students. Fake meat, fake cheese, carbs, salt and sugar ; A bunch of calories without nutritional value, no vitamins, no fibers, nothing ...
To me, learning how to eat well and balanced is basic health education, it's literally one of our primary needs. Feeding garbage to kids who don't know any better and will develop health problems later in life isn't right. The current situation of the US on the issue is unacceptable.
Well maybe if we burned out country down every few months like France is doing again we would have better food
fun fact: here in Brazil, the goverment banned all the ultra-processed food (and snacks) last year. Now, school lunches are all fiscalized by nutricionists. I used to work at the city hall of my town back then, and the lunch was really awesome, full of fruts, veggies and stuff like that
True! In my school, they served salad, meat, rice, beans, and sometimes a healthy snack/candy like banana candy, or fruits and lemme tell you it was good! Even the teachers loved it!
Na faculdade que eu estou cursando tem até uma nutricionista controlando as quantidades de comida que cada aluno pega
When I worked in a tiny Scottish school (22 children total) a few years ago, I was impressed that they had their own cook, the meals varied and healthy. I hope that trend continues and the government here doesn't think - 'Lunchables? That's a way to help fix our national debt.'
ja ia fala isso, as vzs e macarrao com sardinha as vzs bolacha com um suco, as vzs uma frutakkkkkkkk
And in a supposedly "better" country as in the USA, nutritionists are communists, or woke, or whatever buzzword they get right wing idiots to believe. Meanwhile, they're basically serving prison food to their own kids, just to stick it to the libs.
its crazy how people call america the “best” and “richest” country when they cant even feed the children of the future appetizing or nutritional food. its tragic because some families cant afford to buy fresh fruits and vegetables or have time to make their children food every morning, so basically its either starve or ingest unappetizing, addicting foods that just make your already obese children even more unhealthy.
This is too sad to be true. In Thailand, kids that live in poverty still have daily school lunch to get by as their family couldn’t effort a full meal. It might not be anything near fancy meal, but at least we can have real meat,rice and veggies😮
Same in Bangladesh
Same in brazil
Same in India
Be grateful that our country doesn't acknowledge the existence of Lunchables
Same un Argentina.
Also, can we talk about how animated movies in the US often push this narrative that vegetables are yucky? Like, it's almost alarming how many cartoons and shows have their main characters having negative visceral reactions to vegetables.
well thats because no one in America knows how to fucking cook, so all the vegetables taste *R A W*
@@Anaea exactly, like plain boiled vegetables arent going to taste good most times
@@naranjo5277 yeah apparently people over here just boil them and they turn around and say they hate vegetables like wtf of course its gonna taste bad
@@Anaea yeah
*Especially* broccoli. Slightly infuriates me because I love broccoli, especially with cheddar.
I don’t like some vegetables like onions and celery but come on, a lot of veggies are actually pretty good when cooked right.
If we say someone is lovable, we don’t mean that the person is necessarily loved; we mean that s/he is someone whom it is possible to love. The same goes for Lunchables. The company is implicitly admitting, “Yeah, this is not necessarily lunch, but it could be.” This places Lunchables in the same category as say, a piece of loose-leaf paper. One boring afternoon, a friend dared me to eat a sheet. I was indeed able to make a meal of it, so the piece of paper was lunchable.
hahah but it will be ***** lol
This is a high-quality, witty comment. Top 98th percentile of cutting TH-cam comments I've ever seen--well done, haha!
This reminds me of how we all ate toilet paper (with salt if we could get it) every night in jail bc it helped ease the hunger pain enough to be able to sleep. So many of us were caught and sent to seg charged with "destruction of government property " for eating toilet paper that there were six per cell in an 8x10, two bunk cell locked in for 23 hours per day and one lady got blood clots in her legs bc we couldn't stand up bc we were so tightly packed.
@@jessicahay9305 Jesus...
I dare you to eat a piece of cardboard...
I'm from a former socialist Eastern-European country, and I still can remember the school breakfasts and lunches of that era. They were pretty simple but natural, like bread and butter with salami and some veggies, also they made sure that children drank enough milk so they get enough calcium. For lunch it was usually some cheap but nutritious traditional meal. Not as grandeur as the French kids have but still looked much better than the US alternative. Underprivileged children usually got breakfasts and lunches for free.
I'm not from France, but another european country and I can confirm that lunches or rather dinners for kids here are great. At least in the schools I was in there were always two courses - soup and a solid meal. Fresh and prepared on the spot. Perhaps my school didn't always have toilet paper, soap (lol) or modern classrooms but at least the food was amazing I must say.
Having said that, I definitely agree with you that serving such fake meals to the kids is absolutely unacceptable.
In my country (European too) they were cooked on the spot too: honestly they were far from great (overcooked pasta, mediocre meals overall), but at least it was actual food!
I'm french and i can say that is alright but can be better, ingrédients are good but sime time préparation destroy all ,if the principle plate do note convence you , you can alway eat a salade or stuf like this
That's crazy! To be honest, if we invested in doing something similar here in America, our grades would probably go up appreciably. Good nutrition is so important, and I will freely admit that ours is pretty crap.
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@@mrknarf4438 you guys have cooked meals? I am from europe as well. Our parents put bread in our backpack and that is pretty much it.
In highschool yoi can buy even more bread at school. Or a candy bar.
When I was a kid I was so jealous of the other kids in my class who had lunchables. But now I'm so grateful that my Mom never bought them for me despite my begging. Thanks Mom!
Same. The packaging looked so fun as a kid
@@immaleaf4964 that delightful advertisement targeting children
I'm not above offering my kids some convenience foods, and even I can't believe how many kids eat Lunchables on the regular 🤮
Your mum was indeed a great one!
Fr, thank you, mom, for the tuna salad sandwiches, the fruits and veggies, and the mozzarella cheesesticks 🙏❤️
Love your quote: " the food industry has this weird obsession with lying" they love money and care sh¡t about our health
You’re the one buying it, you complain about eating it but you’re the one who’s buying it and consuming it, Kind of ironic isn’t it
@@Lilith-cosplay-world how do you know they do buy it? Are you omnipotent or something? Are you watching them as we speak?
@@fishyfungus5026 because everyone buys foods, it’s kind of something we need to survive
@@Lilith-cosplay-world I swear you sound like a ignorant 12 year old.
@@Lilith-cosplay-worldand u know what they shop for how? Exactly
she is NOT gonna like lunchly
they're absolutely going to try and push this into schools
Anyone else notice the USDA guidelines specifically mention “macaroni-type products” as a meat alternative, and now they’ve partnered with Kraft to supply children’s lunches?
The government is bought and paid for
It's so bad if I don't laugh, I'll cry. And not stop.
@@lauren8627 lunchables we’re the best thing as a kid, depressing? Nope
It's all word games. Big Dairy was pushing for awhile to change the definition of milk to mean "milk with additives" so they could add aspartame, people would be addicted, and they wouldn't have to label it. IDK if it ever got passed...
@@Lilith-cosplay-world *were....also do you really want to comment this under everybody? go buy your kid that ultra processed sh*t and watch them get miserable
Kiana looks more confident with every video, way to go girl 👏🏽👏🏽
I think that she’s lying to you I’m sorry it’s fatty meat. It is not stale maybe she put in the fridge for a long time.
And I used to wonder why my mom never let us have lunchables 🤢. Good on her. 👍
There are no lunchables in Egypt but yeah, my mom would make me breakfast to bring it to school. Nowadays, I make sandwich before I can go to college due to sufficient time.
@@oosha2000 same here, i just graduated from college a few days ago so back when i attended i did just that and saved lots of money. The fast food restaurants and food carts were tempting but i just paid attention to my sandwich and kept eating.
I get them once in a while as a treat but it feels underwhelming so i no longer get them.
@@unreal4good367 I finished college on June 20 but the graduation party hasn't started yet, I'll wait until September or October.
They're fine as a treat, but not as a stand alone meal and definitely not good for weight loss
I'm American but I attended school in France for several months at a time each year from 1998-2006. I can confirm they did offer me 4 course meals. They were usually a little appetizer, like a salad or a small serving of pate, followed by a main dish that always included meat. After that would be a cheese course, which was just a little helping of a slice of some kind of French cheese. I absolutely despised camembert and those days were the bane of my existence (I LOVE camembert today). Finally would be dessert, which from memory would often be like fruit with cream or yogurt, or chocolate mousse. I don't remember anything about portion sizes.
I wouldn't say the quality was gourmet or the culinary levels always consistent, but it was decently prepared and had a variety of nutrients. I was a child at the time, so my memory of it might be fuzzy, but what I wrote here I definitely recall accurately. I know that French cuisine traditionally places the most important emphasis on the mid-day meal dejeuner, with dinner being a smaller lighter affair. Some kids routinely went home for an hour each afternoon to eat with their families while the rest of us ate at the school. I always wished I could go home so I wouldn't have to eat camembert, but my parents wanted me to get the experience.
As someone from Puerto Rico, growing up, I always loved the food from the Comedor (cafeteria) it was always cooked daily, and it was the best part of the day, honestly! Unfortunately, I had to move to New York in 2011, and the food almost left me traumatized ...
It seems culturally sound places like Puerto Rico actually care about their people...
@@measlesplease1266 if they cared about their people he wouldnt have came in jew york
@@measlesplease1266 puerto rico doesn't care since it's much more dangerous than new york and people are also less educated in puerto rico lol
@@1738-l1j In case you're unaware, Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, and the main reason for Puerto Ricans moving to the mainland US is due to the Federal Government. For well over a decade the Federal Government failed to support Puerto Rico after hurricanes and other disasters, defunded the region, closed schools and made life for the average Puerto Rican that of a second class citizen.
Had the same in Australia, infact we had a garden/chicken program (deadass) where children would take turns helping the outside garden grow, feeding the chickens, exercising the chickens and getting outdoorsy time learning how to grow renewable healthy food that was then cooked up by the lunch ladies and given to us (it was always amazing).
Unfortunately the teachers normally sucked ass and where immature bullies 90% of the time but I am thankful the school board atleast cared about our health.
What's interesting in the book, "Salt, Sugar, Fat" they talk about the history of this product; which were created to deal with the surplus of deli meats and cheeses in the US at the time. So they sliced them up in kid size, and sold them as a meal for children and it did super well. Basically, Oscar Mayer had an excess of bologna and mothers were complaining they didn't have much time, so...Lunchables solved both problems.
I loved that book. It’s a great read!
Funny you post this, cause I was just showing my mom a picture of my high-schools extremely dismal lunch. Who cares what kids eat, the money to pay for the sports teams has to come from somewhere I suppose. 🙄
Yeah! Concussion causing tackle football! For children!
My mom was surprised when I told her than my highschool served burgers and reheated frozen food everyday
Yep. Instead of paying teachers a better salary where I’m from they built a new stadium for their football team.
More like to pay for the military.
This is the reason why my mom and her sister started something called “The Back Pack Club”, so that kids can get food over the weekend when they don’t have the option of getting school lunch. Having these lunchables in school now, could just make this problem much worse.
Do you guys have a website? I’m honest intrigued by this program and I wish to know more
@@alexv3372this is a nationwide existing concept. It’s often just called the back pack program, but most school districts have this, or something very similar.
The sad thing is that a much healthier version of Lunchables can be made at home for cheaper. Get a box of whole grain crackers, sliced turkey or ham from the deli, and some real cheese, and throw in as many fruits and veg as you want.
Okay, that's a very darn good idea. thanks dude, might try it out
There’s quite a few areas in America that are food deserts, without much access to non processed food so that sucks
deli meat is also processed....
This is why i never ate the cracker lunchables because you could buy the ingredients and be able to make more of them than just a lunchable.
If you shop at sams club you could make a year supply of lunchables for under $60. We always bought those 180 slice blocks of cheese and froze them. We also bought those giant "balls" of sliced turkey. Take 2 slices of each and a handful of crackers and you are still at under $1 and have enough for at least 8 crackers instead of the 4-5 in a lunchables. Slice up an apple and roll in a few drops of lemon juice to keep it from browning and you have a much better meal (although still not healthy) for about a $1.
I went to private school for one year of my life and my favorite part of the day was lunch. The quality difference was unbelievable because it was real food.
Never trust something that comes from the government.
I also loved lunch and In private school. I am from Iraq.
I get private schools have “better treatment” because you’re paying for it, but no child deserves to have a terrible lunch in my opinion. It’s better to not serve altogether than this sad excuse of “launch”.
What I learned form this video:
If a rat falls into the fryer of an US school cafeteria they can probably advertise it as "free range meat product".
Actually that rat would probably be the only non ultra-processed thing and therefore probably the healthiest meat source.
As a french person, they do give you a 4-course meal in cafeteria(and options to modify your plate if need be)
They also try to source the ingredients locally so we're pretty well-off with school lunches from kindergarten to university (uni restaurants and cafeteria also have a pretty high quality standard as well)
And to top it off, in public schools, one meal is something around 3 bucks (same for uni and it's 1€ for people with a scholarship)
I remember that before eating the one and only time pizza I ever ordered in middle school, I took off some of the cheese on top and underneath it was a grayish green color with the sauce and bread… never got another school pizza again lol. By high school I was just bringing in my own lunches
wow -that is so tragic😵
Oh thank goodness I wasn't the only one who experienced that! I always had nausea whenever I ate the school pizza and when I finally looked underneath it the sauce was very similar
Tbh yeah, I ate school lunches maybe once a year if I somehow forgot my lunch. Not like my lunch was glorious, but the one time I got stuck with a chicken patty that tasted like beef, some rotten looking peas and fries that tasted like chicken... I was just so shook that some of my friends were eating these. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY
That sounds moldy how did they think that was acceptable for sensitive young GI tracts?
My school's pizza lunches were vile. They use extremely poor quality ingredients (e.g. the pepperoni), that as an adult you would never deliberately choose to eat.
I think another issue that feeds into this is the modern American obsession with caving to kids, taking the "easier" route of giving them junk because they know the kid will like it (ala "Junk Food Kids"). I work in early elementary and we have a kid whose parents started sending saltine-cracker-and-butter sandwiches because she was picky about everything else. And even those, we have to watch her to make sure she actually eats them before her chips or dessert.
I look at those meals from other countries and know that so many students would throw a fit because it looks "icky." I could see many parents looking at the Lunchables and being OK with it because they think, "Well, at least my kid would eat it."
We have absolutely trashed our pallets and our kids' with processed food.
Agreed, plain laziness!
Yeah, I agree. So many parents let their kids whine about how much they dislike foods they haven't even properly tried, and then actually cave and let the child eat whatever they want - which of course is just going to be junk. It's not the child's fault they don't have a palate for real food, or that they want to eat sweets and junk. It's your job as a parent to make your kids eat things that won't mess them up for life. I also had things I disliked as a child, but I never managed to out stubborn my mother, so I learned how to eat something I disliked (so long as it didn't make me sick, you know, there is a distinction) quickly and without complaining. And then I could eat the things I did enjoy. And my family, despite being poor, fed me real food. Eating that way naturally creates a preference for real food and gives you a sense for quality and freshness in your food. If you know, you know. If you'd never seen, smelled, or tasted it, you have no idea and no clue you're missing one.
@@rachelclark6393 there are exceptions to this (but exceptions, not a whole school), there are kids with autism and other problems that might actually reduse to eat anything else except for a few safe foods even when hungry, and the solution is not "force then to eat" or "let them starve" but letting them eat what they want and introducing new food one at a time very slowly and without mixing flavours too much (a piece of meat, not a stew; rice and veggies separately, not a risotto).
@@tymondabrowski12 You're absolutely right - this is an issue for a small percentage of kids. And forcing those kids to eat could make things much worse. But as you pointed out, that a comparatively small percentage of kids compared to kids who are just used to eating food designed to be addictive, and have no frame of reference for healthy food also tasting good. So there has to be a healthy balance between those two approaches, which we are currently missing. But I think often better communication would make this a lot easier. Parents are often aware of kids who have an issue like that, so letting the school know would be sensible, I think. And for kids who aren't showing other symptoms or whose parents don't care enough to recognize them, I think the school would need to pay attention and work with them. I don't know that I have a perfect solution for every situation, but I feel strongly that if schools were serving kids healthy food to begin with, and parents were feeding their kids healthy things to begin with, then at least kids who were struggling with food issues would be getting nutrition when they did manage to eat successfully.
@@rachelclark6393 same, and we too were poor.
All of this "it's cheaper to feed your children (insert precessed crap here) than to cook, you don't know what it's like being poor"
Yes I do and my mother still made fresh, healthy options as a single parent to 3 children. She even said it was cheaper to cook than buy pre packaged, pre made.
This makes me so angry. All that it will do is re-enforce the notion (to parents who don't know any better and refuse to educate themselves on what they're feeding little children) that this crap is ok, as they give it in the schools.
I can't believe they said on the news "in a move towards healthier eating" it's a paradoy of real life.
Man i was always so jealous of my friends being given money to buy pizza and burgers growing up. Only now i can see how awesome my parents were to send me to school with a basquet of food. Always milk, a termos of warmish food and a piece of fruit. My mom would wake up 5am to cook us food
Oh wow! She really cared about you guys! If I ever have kids, I definitely plan to do that for them
@@claranadine1086 she did! When we are kids we don't even realize it ❤️
yeah, as a kid you don't realise that it's bad, but that's precisely the reason why schools shouldn't allow this to happen. if you offer kids burgers and fries, they'll get them, and it's not their responsibility at their age to know better, it would be the school's.
6:42 I'm French, I went to a random public school in the countryside and I can say this is 100% true. It's pretty much the same in many EU countries.
From primary school to high school we had full lunches with varied and healthy food. Of course you couldn't get sodas or anything like this. Even for students we have "university restaurants" that serve different full course meals everyday for a discount (1€ if you don't have a lot of money)
I love how they have 300 names for sugar.
Its never actually “sugar” on the ingredients 😂😂😂
I would call it 300 substitutions for sugar, because gods forbid the FDA catch you using real sugar in your products!
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 good one!!! Fantastic one actually!
@@leaguzzardi7565 I think they're scientific names for sugar but still it's hilarious how "sugar" is often called something like "exocloris syrup" or "salidated glucose" or something like that!
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 or they use arguably worse sweeteners so they can say it has zero sugar
@@nathangaspacio6128 Congratulations! You understand the real problem. Unfortunately the university educated regulators at the FDA who all hold lofty degrees in health and nutrition haven't a clew.
As a French person, I find the idea of peanut butter as a meat alternative utterly terrifying.
funny story, so, about the history and creation of peanut butter…
Literally not to mention how many children and adults are deathly allergic to it. Even if it's airborne it can harm so many kids if it's given in schools- it's an atrocious idea.
@@cougaray3166 peanuts and peanut butter sandwiches are already given in school lunches? are u ok? no one is gonna go into shock because someone near them eats an uncrustable.
You're not direct substituting it or anything (ew), just nutritionally speaking
@@nolanbeerollin1756 don't know where you live but peanut products has been banned in schools for some time
I am from Germany and I was seriously shook when I came to America for an exchange program. The options there at the school for lunch were just fast food, I desperately searched for something more healthy. I think most of the german students don't eat school food, we bring our own lunches to school, but most primary schools today teach their children to bring healthy and balanced food, the parents get notified as soon as the child brings unhealthy lunch more often or no lunch at all. After my 3 weeks in America I felt I gained some weight and I was so happy to come home and get some good fresh vegetables...
Ich habe 10 Monate in Ohio gelebt und dabei 15 Kilo zugenommen, die ich nachdem ich wieder zuhause war komplett abgenommen habe 😂 ich war dort öfter krank, ich denke man Magen und Darm konnten das Essen nicht richtig verarbeiten. So extrem hatte ich das seitdem nie wieder... Echt gruselig 🥺 an die ganze ranch sauße und die Lunchables kann ich mich auch noch gut errinern...
Food options are better for adults in america than in germany, for example the asian and latin american food is much better in america
You couldn't find fresh vegetables here why? Did you not have access to a store?
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My mom is a teacher. I know from her that for a lot of kids, whatever the school offers them could be their only meal of the day, or one of the only two. It's so sad that the USA has a huge addiction to lunchables. The USA has the funds and means to help bring cooked, hot meals to kids. If a child only gets to eat a consistent meal at school, it should be something nice and hearty.
Exactly! Not to mention, lunchables have hardly any food in them at all.
The money needs to be set aside for the massive amounts of middlemen and the people at the top.
i eat lunchables sometimes as im autistic so its a safefood for me but i dont have an addiction
As a kid growing up in canada, I always wanted these. But instead my mom always prepared me a school lunch, every day. I wish I could have appreciated what I had back then. These things look disgusting as an adult. I looooooooooove cooking now, I'm excited to cook my kid the best meals possible when that day comes, even though I know 1000% my kid is gonna beg for these things just like I did when I was young haha.
As a current high school student, I can confirm that they count fries/tater tots/potato wedges as "vegetables." If you take a burger with tater tots, the lunch ladies won't make you take a fruit/veggie.
Also, it's funny how other countries serve nutritious meals for kids but our schools are just like "take a small apple or some canned fruit/veggies and you're good lmao"
Eh I mean technically yea, it is just a fried cut up root vegetable. 🤷
What make it even worse is that they serve that labeled as food and dont give a fairly priced health care or public healthcare
@@TheReZisTLust but see thats the problem. yeah technically it is a vegetable but it serves the function of being a starch first and foremost in the context of nutrition. vegetables tend to have more fiber, less calories, and more macronutrients. potatoes have some fiber and some macronutrients but loads of calories too if you eat too many. so the idea that potatoes get branded as being just like any other vegetable is the trouble of it. potatoes should rightly be treated as a starch first and foremost, not a vegetable, even if it is technically a root vegetable.
French fries made me fat (gain weight, not fat) in high school. They sold them in big cups, we could get as many as we wanted. They were good so for a lot of kids it was all we had for lunch, and a slice of pizza. The cafeteria was an unlimited buffet of junk with apples and oranges. And of course vending machines that we could use any time during, before, after school. I never liked bringing a bagged lunch until I realized all the garbage in schools and that I couldn’t pig out just because I played sports. My Italian mom already had fattening dinners waiting at home so I had to bring a healthy lunch. Some kids can’t afford to bring something healthy and the schools are supposed to make sure healthy options are available. I even froze my own soy milk to bring to defrost in my locker for lunch.
Sucks that the only food at my school I consider to be consistent in quality is burned pizza... Everything else is just bad. I don't even trust the milk offered
A serving of rice, a bit of beans & a small portion of meat can be so much filling, healthier, tastier & way cheaper that all that processed & artificial junk. As a kid I always skipped lunch because it was horrible & it wasn’t fun being hungry at school specially if you were at school from 6:30 am to 3:30 pm when I was at school. Most times I passed my entire day with a boiled egg & a sandwich as breakfast at home.
Even damn 3rd world country lunches are better
USA, the world's richest and most powerful nation feeding their own future food worse than pig feed
Now I'm so grateful for the lunches my highschool provides. I'm from the Czech Republic and our lunches are typically composed of a veggie based soup + you get to choose from two different main courses (normal one and a vegetarian one). Today we had a buckwheat stirfry with veggies, smoked tofu and some cheese. Sometimes we still complain about the lunches we get, but holy I'm SO glad I dont get lunchables as my lunch.
Univerzálna hnedá omáčka (universal brown sauce) doesn't sound that bad now...
@@jarlesleglerg9064 haha ano! :)
We've got the same standard in Poland and I used to complain that the beetroot side dish one day meant a beetroot soup the next one (I didn't realize they used the surplus beets, I genuinely believed they just gathered the leftover and hated beetroot salad and made it into a soup, haha). I didn't even realized that having soups and veggies every day in school might be a priviledge compared to the menu of the poor kids from the USA :D
@@Upioornica Ah yes. The beetrot salad and the borscht soup. A classic lol
As a Swedish person, I can tell that we do have a similar concept, minus the soup. Also we do have a salad section, so we can pick out some nice veggies! I'm definitely glad that I'm not American (plus, we got free health care, lol)!
I graduated from high school last year. The food was so atrocious that my brother and I usually only ate the fruit and drank the milk for lunch. Luckily they always had the cereal option in the morning (which is so small btw, we’ve had the same cereal package since kindergarten). When we got home, we were so hungry that we’d immediately begin snacking or eating food. Now that I’m in college, I weigh less than I did in high school, all because I don’t have to binge in the afternoon anymore!!
Yup every kid in the US comes home starving. They are in school from 8-4, not counting afterschool activities. They are also young with a fast growing metabolism and alot of energy in them. The small portion of breakfast or lunch if its eaten at all arent even enough fuel to carry a person through the 12 hour day. The system is so bad.
Same. The school lunch food is so atrocious and nutrition wise is garbage. It’s literally making everyone unhealthy and feeling garbage so it’s hard to focus in class and the hella long hours for school and with barely any sleep 😭
godd i ate trix cereal every day, every week, for 7 months bc it was all i could quickly eat i hate middle school
Same. I had to pack my own lunches, and most times I'd wake up too late to pack it. I would come home and eat three boxes of goldfish crackers, candy, yogurt, cereal, etc etc and then sometimes have to skip dinner because I was too full from the binge.
As a French I've always felt weirded out by how one of the American students that joined us back in junior high school used to describe her lunches in Florida. I always thought she exaggerated to get more accepted there (we were a small junior high school and sadly most of the students were not really accepting of foreigners). And then I started to watch videos about American schools lunches and I truly started to feel sorry about you guys. How is that possible to treat your kids that way, both in the time they get to eat and the food quality? How can you do that to your own kids guilt free ?
(I still haven't watched the video so it's more of a rhetorical question,I know I'm going to find answers in the video as it's always been a quality source)
Easily: the ones in charge and teaching usually don't have kids. So, they take out their misery out on the children of adults who chose to have them. Since they, themselves, never had kids and don't want them, of course they feel nothing.
@@IceQueen975 Not sure, it's not the impression I got. Not saying it doesn't exist but I think it's too easy to say it's 100% the fault of people that think that way
Because, ✨money✨
@@IceQueen975 What utter nonsense and lies. Also, teachers don't decide what your kids get for lunch for godsakes. Are your state politicians all childless?
@@IceQueen975 Most teachers I know are against the school food, and want MUCH better systems where they can teach real, valuable things and have good interests for children. Sadly, teachers aren't in charge. Teachers don't make the curriculums OR choose what kids eat. We want better for the children and are subjected to working in the same shitty school conditions the kids are in. Yes, adults have more choice, but we're not happy with the system and feel pretty victim to capitalism here, too.
As a Dutchy, it so foreign for me to get lunch at school. But then again, its normal here to eat bread as a lunch (like slices of bread with something like ham, cheese (real cheese), jam or even chocolate sprinkles (yes, its a Dutch thing). We eat cooked meals at dinner, so you can just give your kid their lunch in a lunchbox no problem, maybe add some fruit. It's not the healthiest, but it is deffinatly better then lunchables.
Spongebob tried to warn us as kids years ago, with that episode (Selling Out, IIRC) where the Krusty Krab got sold to the corporate chain and the burgers were replaced with literal garbage painted to look like food. This is literally what the government's doing to the people and barely anyone sees the truth of it.
And then people are shocked when people get cancer
Great analogy
The name lunchable itself gives me the impression that the product doubts itself😂
You are able to eat this for lunch, but probably best you don't😆
Drivables: The cars that technically CAN be driven, but we wouldn't really recommend it!
@@peacemaster8117 I've had a few of those. And a few "ridable" bikes too, usually kept on the road by fixing them in a way a professional would describe as not recommended but "doable".😝
I was in elementary school in the early 2000s. I remember our cafeteria had a soda machine and the school made a huge deal out of replacing all the sodas with “healthy drinks”. Looking back, it was all sugary Minute Maid brand juice from concentrate that had just as much, if not more sugar and calories as a soda. It’s so stupid I can’t help but laugh. I thought fruit juice was healthy for the longest time because of that and I would drink it like it was water!
Man, i feel you on the fruit juice thing. I felt betrayed whenever I learned that fruit juice is basically as bad for you as soda! I felt dumb for not knowing, but it’s really shoved down our throats.
That's really sad 😕
Fresh Fruit juice is nothing like soda.
I hated it when they replaced the sodas with carbonated milk
In this country money is exponentially more important than health is and it’s a huge problem
No matter how much I begged my dad growing up, he NEVER let me have lunchables. I am grateful he raised me with good diet priorities. This is CRAZY!
I only had them as a snack not as a real meal
Dayuuum.
Dystopia goes hard with that one.
My "lunches" in Poland were just like normal meals.
Sometimes patatoes with meat/eggs, sometimes soups, and once a week something in lines of pancakes or fries.
My f*cking dog eats healhier than US kids!
True. The only bad dish was mortadela which was some kind of fried ham. Everyone skipped on this one. True that dogs in Poland get healthier food than people in USA. Weirdly enough parameters for dog food are more restrictive than for food for humans when it comes to food from supermarkets
i loved mortadela, and everyone around me loved it as well... i havent had it in years and recently ive been craving that childhood taste of mortadela in crumbs. yum
Fun fact: The chicken sent to schools, is actually the same meat used in pet food or compost!
Why, god! Why! 😄
I would rather grab a pedigree can of dog food than eat that shit
The school lunch situation in US is mind boggling. How country so rich can have a "food shortage" is beyond me. Meanwhile I come from a small polish town and the lunches we got in primary school (that was more than a decade ago though, they might have have gotten worse because of how inept our current government is) were tasty and hearty. And I actually miss some of them. There were always two courses, one of which was always a soup which if I recall correctly you could have as much as you want.
"They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor." -2pac
The country isn't rich. Not in that way. It has rich people in the country controlling government. That's why this is something that happens. Everyone else is almost objectively poor by comparison to 1960's standards.
Do you really think a few people are sitting there thinking lunchables are a good food option? Or do you think someone behind the scenes might be playing things so that they can sell more processed food?
That's why this problem won't get solved till things change. The entire government needs to be reformed in a way that makes it resilient against corruption and influence. That's a HUGE reason for the decline in USA, Canada. 1-2 party government democracies that are easily corrupted, as it's winner takes all. It's why there's left vs right fights all the time. Only 3 other countries in the world use a similar democracy style to the US/CAN. And they all have similar issues. The hundred others using multi-party don't have these issues, or at least not as bad. They form coalition governments, and it's much harder for stupidity like this to pass.
The US used to be rich.
Something with state govt and schools making shady deals with food companies from out of their state
Hej Polska!!!
As a Mexican This is a crime against humanity. This should not exist at all. This is an insult to every chef, cook, and culinary culture that has ever existed.
The UN should look into this.
I’m from Sweden, and I’m also currently a student. Our food is really, really good. Of course, people in school thinks the food tastes bad, but personally I think that we have such a luxury since our food is free (of course from taxes but you get my point, students doesn’t pay) and it’s nutritious! It’s so sad to see that other countries students have to eat some of these things!
In America school lunch is normally little Caesars pizza, apple sauce that tastes like water, milk that's almost always spoiled, a water if you have 2$, a salad that's drenched in ranch and yes the burgers are basically slop as one sides soggy and the others burnt. And the government thinks lunchables are better which is not true both are horrible
@@GoldenRosesss how much does the food cost u because if its 10 dollars at that point I would just go to the closest mall and buy food from there the american food looks like its taken straight from trash
@@oshiroen1552 in America where I go to school it like 2.75 or you can have a reduced lunch.
Yeah i'ts Good!
I used to think cafeteria food was the worst
But then I started to see horror stories from the USA and I now understand that even if wasn't up to par with homecooking, the food was at worst decent and sometimes very good.
When a lunch of three things (crackers, turkey and cheese) has a 42 items long ingredient list you know you're eating poison
This just reinforces the fact that the food industry making this "food" has incredible lobbying power
Coming from a thrid world country, I'm still shocked kids don't just bring their own lunch, or are American parents lazy? Cause here there is no such thing as a cafeteria with food. You either bring food or you don't eat. 😂
I'm from Brazil and I can say that our school food is mostly like that photo and is really tasty, when I was a kid my mother worked as a lunch lady and I loved when she was able to bring some leftovers, specially when it was fish. And until this day I have lunch and dinner at my college because it's so cheap and tasty (it normally is rice, black beans and some meat or vegan option), it's so weird to see kids eating what they eat in the US.
As another brazillian, I think it’s because of poverty, lots of children in public schools only eat at school, so we make sure the meals are nutritious.
Honestly our diet slaps, not saying there isn't room for improvement but this is our staple
No Brasil vocês têm opção vegan nos refeitórios?? Que sonhoooo 😍😍😍😍
@@veganpelosanimais1216 nos da faculdade sim, mas pra criança/adolescente eu não tenho certeza, mas imagino que também tenha já que alimentação vegana geralmente é muito mais barata que carne aqui.
I don't remember ever eating actual food in schools here in Brazil, perhaps in kindergarden, I vaguely remember bringing an orange home with me because I couldn't find a way to peel it at school 😂. In elementary we had to buy some snacks from the cafeteria then went home to have lunch. In high school I studied the whole day and would have lunch at restaurants or brought food from home if I didn't have money.
But yesss, college food was amazing and I honestly loved it. I would pick vegan option most of the times even not being vegan because it tasted amazing and had lots of variety.
In Japan, both the students and teachers are served the same thing. My friend who works as a teacher posts pictures of their lunches and they're often given vegetable stew, egg omelette and miso soup!
Korean school lunches look really good too!
Yeah, my kid goes to a Japanese school and his lunches look delicious. Mostly locally-sourced seasonal vegetables, and all cooked fresh on premises.
Very similar to Korean lunches which also look great, so probably no surprise that their obesity rates are so low.
Everyone eats the same thing, often in the classroom together.
as a post-student in the U.S. I can confirm the teachers wouldn't dare go anywhere near the school lunch, which very often was barely considered food and designed to be the cheapest consumable form of bare nutrients
In Italy teachers also eat the same thing as the children. I usually had a school 3 serving, Including salad, pasta or rice, fish or meat with vegetables and dessert (fruits or pudding )
I studied in the philippines and I couldn't wrap my head around how americans feed their kids literal junk food and call it "lunch". We weren't even allowed to bring sodas and chips to school.
One time two of my friends were served chunky, foul tasting, slime textured milk. When they alerted a staff member to this, the staff simply poured out the most chunky parts, and returned the still chunky milk. I don’t think I have to tell you which country this took place in.
Edit: I also want to add that said staff member said my friends were the sixth time that had happened that day, so it was reoccurring.
America, fuck yeah!! 🇺🇸
America : we don't want cheese made from unpasteurized milk, that's unsanitary !
Also America :
I can imagine what the texture was like....
Hell yeah brother american dream 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇲
i know this was 4 months ago, but something similar to this happened at my school as well. i’d say atleast half of the people in the cafeteria got served weirdly chunky milk, as described in your comment. it was a pretty long ago
If parents give their kids this to school, the parents will get a talk with the principle and if they keep doing it with child support in The Netherlands.
As a Spaniard, calling those lunchables, "food", is an insult to the entire history of human culture and cuisine. That... thing, that disgusting pink paste, shouldn't be classified as food by anyone, anywhere, for any reason. It looks disgusting.
the worst part about it is that in the meantime literal death row inmates are served better food on a day to day basis in the US.
like somehow they can afford human decendy to their prisoners but can't do the same to their kids.
Who cares if you're Spaniard Lunchables are good
@@wildlifewarrior2670 you are aware that the only reason "it tastes good" is because if all the artificall chemicals thry put in it, it's like saying that drugs taste super good and that gourmet chefs should use it for their receipe.
@@wildlifewarrior2670 We don't have lunchables you idiot. We have actual real food.
Also, *your
@@isuckatusernames4297 yes I know that
I work in France in a high school and it’s totally true about their school meals.
They’re four courses with a vegetable first course (carrot salad, half a grapefruit, tomatoes and mozzarella in summer, radish salad in winter) a main course with stuff like cod or salmon, tagines or chicken pasta, then a cheese course with various kinds of local cheeses (brie, blue cheese or Gouda being common) then a dessert of yogurt, fruit or sometimes more exciting stuff like tiramisu. They are always served with a piece of baguette and only water is offered to drink. Wine sometimes is available for the teachers which made me smile.
They do all this for around €3 per meal, and of course it’s free to poorer kids. Although most parents paid the fee as it was so small.
Obesity here is exceptionally rare, maybe one or two kids like that in a whole school.
So many countries could learn from France 🇫🇷
Dang! That sounds like a feast! More countries should definitely do that lolol
I wouldn't consider cheese as healthy but it's a part of the french culture and that deserves great respect.
@@CordeliaWagner REAL cheese is fine and healthy, it has vitamins, calcium, and lot of proteins. It's obviously high in calories because of its high fat content but it's not a problem since it is served in small portions at school. Most of these cheese are made from milk, rennet and salt, and that's it, not a single ultra processed ingredient.
Sounds so lovely!! I wish I lived in France. (I looked at your IG and your travels look so wonderful!)
Ugh that sounds heavenly
I was jealous and embarrassed as a kid since I always brought packed lunch as my mother and father both worked and never received aid, and they could not afford for me to get school lunch everyday. Now I appreciate the fact that my parents fed me normal and nutritious meals not these nasty garbage school lunches.
lunchables we’re the best thing as a kid, Nasty garbage school lunches? Nope
@@Lilith-cosplay-worldcopium
@@inesf9508 what?
Post-USSR here.
When I was in school, we had two main lunch programs (if I can call it that) - the paid one and the free one. Free meals consisted only of breakfast that was usually porrige with an apple or a yoghurt and some tea, it was enough actually, sometimes I didn't even eat the porridge as it looked gross to me. Paid meals also included lunches, that were two-course meals (soup+main dish, cutlets with buckwheat or rice or something like that) with tea or juice and a piece of cake. It was also subsidied for children from big or poor families.
Knowing that in some other countries they just serve a freaking CRACKER and call it a day... kills me, really.
My parents had me eating school lunches all the way up until high school. I was fat throughout all of my schooling until high school. My grandmother began making me healthy and nutritious meals to take for lunch and I dropped the weight very quickly. Playing football probably played a part too but I am grateful she made sure I got the right food.
6:17 former prison guard here. Schools and prisons usually share contracts for food distribution. Many school lunches are served to prisoners and vice versa. Yes, these likely means that lunchables could be served in prisons if the caloric requirements are met.
used to be involved in food contracts for schools and prisons and yes a lot of it is the same good except for the branded stuff. so prison probably wouldn't get lunchables but they are both eating Cargill or Michael Foods liquid egg, I forget the veggie brand but it's the same, they both get Foster Farms corn dogs, etc the main thing is they both get commodity products as in the government pays prisons and schools to take excess beef, cheese, and eggs off their hands because American farms produce more supply than there is demand so they are subsidized. the only difference is the branded stuff and snacks, for example prisons get malt o meal when schools get general mills, and the schools get PepsiCo chips, crackers, other packaged branded snacks. student stores are even better for corporations because they don't have to meet any nutrition requirements.
Lunchables used to be so hot in my elementary school that I'd insist to my parents that they let me bring that stuff instead of the healthy, homecooked meal I used to bring as a child. Only reason I ever insisted was because everyone else was gobbling them up and you were considered "cool" for having it.
Which is crazy because lunchables are so fucking nasty. Pieces of wet ham with processed cheese and crackers 🤢 what’s worse is that shit did not fill you up
@@dovescry123 lmao ikr. I remember thinking it looked stupid but people acted like kings eating that garbage.
When I was a kid in the 90s, Lunchables were the shit. My parents let me have them a couple of times, but most of the time I was just envious of the other kids who brought them for lunch. Like "dude, you got Lunchables! Gimme some!" 🥺🥺
Tonight (4-11-24), Norah O'DONNELL reported on the CBS news that Lunchables, were reported to be taken out of the typical American school systems...... amazing 🤩😍🤩!!!
You got to it first, Kiana 😉.
Keep up the Great work in keeping us healthy ☺️.
Thank you and God bless!!!
Miss Monique 🙂🌷🙏🕊️
I’m from England, and despite the arguably unpredictable nature of our school dinners (especially the strange disparity between the quality of primary school and secondary school food) I can tell you with one hundred percent certainty that ‘Lunchables’ would never pass as proper food here, especially since the Jamie Oliver Incident. It’s appalling what’s happening over there. I would take a mushy jacket potato with tuna, beans and cheese + apple crumble with custard any day…
None of the food you mentioned sounded like food but Lunchables are even more so
@Tristan Cheng Tuna? Protein. Potato? Starchy carb. Cooked apples? Fruit. Custard? Possibly a bit of dairy, unlikely to be made with eggs unless home made, but even so that is actually food. Even if you wouldn't eat it.
@@lauren8627 FYI: what I mentioned in my comment is a caricature of the ‘other’/tertiary menu option available at a British school - an average educational institution’s weekly menu would usually consist of a range of meals including meats, poultry, fish, cooked vegetables, salads, vegetarian/halal/vegan options and yes, desserts. From my experience, all of our food was also prepared fresh by a team of cooks. (Even so, our ‘bare minimum’ is still better than Lunchables…)
Not British but studied there for a year (boarding school). I bribed my doctor (yes, literally paid him) to give me the “oh no I have gut problems” slip to get the food I actually ate. I’m a very picky eater - I wanted blanched veggies, slightly grilled chicken breast, baked/roasted proteins and my effing salad. I also happen to despise potatoes and anything fried with a burning passion - it was everywhere. Every weekend found me (we could leave for the town) either at the local organic store or one of the local restaurants gorging myself on salads. Local walgreens also knew me by my name and face - the dorm’s kitchen was stocked up with my salad ingredients THAT NO ONE EVEN CARED TO TOUCH.
As a French person I can confirm that parents would literally have a HEARTATTACK if lunchables were served to kids at French schools, and yes we do have full course meal with proteins and vegetables in most schools 🤌🏻🤌🏻
Ye but they still suck. Pasta will be half assed just boiled in water without even butter, 1 in 10 veggies will be dry and tbh the quality of the products seems to be the lowest you can go. Whenever there is chicken for example, i dont even eat it because it tastes like the 8€ per kilogram trash you will see at the bottom of a refrigerator in a store.
@@KalashDaCat lol, do you expect gourmet food in a school cafeteria? get a grip dude
lunchables is shit though
@@MrBartusek i expect something that doesnt taste like trash
Also, thank Ronald Regan for ketchup and French fried being considered “vegetables” 🙃
So many of the major issues in this country today can be attributed to Regan, it’s almost like a dark comedy
French Fries are technically vegetables, because they are just potatoes cut into sticks. If they are self-made, they can be healthy.
American school french fries aren't potatoes they're random roots found in an alleyway and some ash
@@GoldenRosesss We literally have FDA guidelines on an “acceptable amount of sawdust” in half these products. Like, the U.S. is so fucked 💀
@@sierrasnyder1436 Oh my goodness, I've been eating sawdust and honey mustard
I'm from a european country, I usually didn't get a lunch at school, I lived nearby and my mom cooked at home, but I remember in primary school there was a cafeteria and parents could buy meals for their kids (and poor families get them for free) - menu was like normal home dinner. And the smell from the kitchen was amazing! Few times I ate there it was really tasty. Usually there was soup+main course and salad+dessert+kompot (delicious fruit drink made by cooking fruits). For some time there was also a program to make kids drink milk, so every student got milk to drink for free.
In high school there was no cafeteria. Tiny store in school sold sweets, drinks, but also - quite healthy, like-home-made sandwiches. The lady running it would buy ham, cheese, butter, salad , veggies and fresh rolls from a bakery in the morning, and make sandwiches in the back. Later I think they even had some simple salads.
I have no idea how the most powerful nation on earth could serve their kids such garbage, wtf america.
What country were you living in?
I came from Vietnam to America back in 5th grade, and when I tell you I was not prepared for the school lunches? I meant it, I was literally shocked. I don’t know WHAT they served, but the first time I decided to eat school lunch, they were serving something that is PINK wrap around some GREEN fillings that I’m pretty sure was NOT vegetable or beans. Next to it is some GREEN PASTE that I was able to identify as the vegetable. Then runny and watery corns. Of course there is also the milk carton that taste like water. The difference with what I was given back in my country was surreal that after I just don’t eat school food at all😅
Are you sure the green filling wasn’t guacamole or something?
I am french and I used to hate school lunches, I remember many things like rice or lentils tasted so bad because they were canned which I wasn't used to... lol now I realize how good we had it!! At least the structure of a balanced meal was there : some sort of salad as entree, main course with a protein, a grain, and veggies, and dairy product and fruit as dessert.
I have heard of lunchables but I didn't know they were actually served at school, and I never actually saw what's inside... it's... tragic. Like you said, it's more like "food-like substances"
I remember when I went to Italy for a college trip to study art history we stayed at a sort of boarding school type place with individual dorms and classrooms and such. We got fresh breakfasts, lunches, and dinners there when we weren't out exploring for the day. Lunch ladies would come in and prepare *fresh* meals for us every single day, and it was honestly the best food I've ever had in my life. They were so *filling* and healthy and actually made me want to try new foods that I'd never tried before because they looked and smelled so good! The ladies would make fresh bread and buns for us every morning, prepare and cook sausages and bacon, or giant slabs of seasoned pork loin or turkey, or fresh (not instant) pasta with homemade sauces, fresh vegetables like salad greens and carrots packed with so much flavor they didn't need any salt or pepper! There were a few pre-packaged foods available as extra snacks like pudding cups or yogurts but Italy's pudding and yogurt was so vastly different from the American types that I couldn't eat that stuff here in America when I returned home.
They would also give us packed paper bag lunches to take with us when we were out for the day and it was *loaded* with the best sandwiches imaginable. Fresh breads with freshly shaved turkey or ham with *real* flavorful cheeses, a wonderfully delicious piece of fruit (usually an apple or pear that were good enough to be dessert), fresh juice, and a little dessert thing that was, again, usually pre-packaged, but at least the Italians know how to make decent sweets that don't make you sick.
If we had even half as good foods as I ate at that boarding school here in the states our kids would not be such picky eaters nor addicted to sweets and fats.
What pisses ME off is that I pay around $8,000/yr in school taxes and most of the money goes to teacher benefits and pensions. The kids are served prison rations.
My parents migrated from Sri Lanka to Australia in the 80s. They never ate anything packaged over there. And when I say never ate anything packaged I mean like they took bottles to the sesame oil making place (not a factory - hand churned) and filled bottles amongst many other foods/grains where people came to your home to prepare it such as flours and powders and you just package it whatever container you have at home, so no plastics either. They are mostly seafood for protein as it was cheap and ate an Ayurvedic diet. I.e. the food was based off not just nutrition but also combinations of food were important - certain foods were not meant to be eaten together. The taste of food had to hit all 6 tastes etc. No one ate outside. People didn’t even eat at each others homes because there was nothing like home cooked food. My mum didn’t own a fridge til she was much older and my dad didn’t have one so they ate fresh everyday. The fish monger came to your house to sell fish. Everyone had cows and chickens for milk/eggs at home. The lived a highly sustainable life. Very little waste as they used literally all parts of fruits and vegetables. For example we eat jackfruit and use the seeds for jackfruit seed curry. Yard and home maintenance was used with all natural products from plants or cow dung.
What did you do with the calf?
A cow doesn't give milk when she doesn't have a calf / gave birth.
Homeschool and eating at home has never looked better
For some poor families, this is almost impossible.
Only if you have family that can cook or cares about what they eat. A lot of parents don’t.
I was homeschooled up until 10th grade and I'm so glad I was lol
Ah yes. Feed the kids well but socially isolate them and let them grow up unable to academically compete with their peers in any meaningful capacity. The American dream.
I know a good number of people who were homeschooled and they’re doing great in college and arguably more socially adjusted than a lot of the people I knew in public school. Plus, I got an awful education at my school. I never learned how to learn or any necessary job skills, only how to memorize and parrot things. I wish I went to the school of “I do my math then mom takes me outside to look at bugs” maybe I wouldn’t have had to learn how to learn new things effectively at the age of 19
I'll always remember the time in elementary school when me and my friend tried to start a petition to get better school lunches but were shut down by the higher ups. LOL we were too radical I guess
lolol elementary school!! That is epic 💕 You'd think they'd encourage that type of initiative!!!
You rock pal!
As an Korean of 30’s, I miss the school lunch sooo much. But our company lunch is also very good.😅😅😅
As a French person, I can testify that yes, we used to have a meal with three courses at school : salad, meat+veggies or carbs ( pastas, rice...) and a dessert (usually a yogurt or cheese), we would drink only tap water and some schools are even doing collabs with local farmers, providing veggies without gmo/organic. At university, it was even better cuz there were many options, mostly healthy ones.
The French are at their best health-wise, when they don't worry about whether their food is healthy. What matters is quality, flavour, and variety. It is an attitude from which other nations would benefit greatly.
I’m a teacher in a school in a major city, every student is allowed a free breakfast and lunch, and you should see the garbage they feed these kids especially at breakfast. So much sugar and so very little of anything else; milk and cereal bars (Cocoa Puffs/fruit loops)pastries filled with sugary fillings, cookies they call “biscuits”, pop tarts, flavored yogurts, it’s horrible. They do get a fresh fruit most mornings though and they really eat the hell out of those…small win 😵💫
yup - I worked in schools across 4 states and it's generally pretty crappy. My current school occasionally looks better, but so many kids don't eat the vegetable or take the fruit. It's really sad. The breakfasts are definitely usually worse than the lunches and cause the kids to sugar crash and be hungry later.
I’m French and didn’t know those kind of things existed 👀 how is that allowed in schools ??? And we really have 4 courses meals ! (It’s not always tasty😂)
Student from Latvia here
For lunch, we have the main dish (buckwheat with cutlets, pasta with beef, potato with salad) some soups, and a dessert (debessmanna, biezpiena platsmaize, or any fruit). I see why people don't like America...
I went to High School in France and I can confirm that the lunches were bomb. We had bread, cheese, fish, salads, soup, fruits and the dessert options were pie, tart, yogurt, fruits and fruit salad. There were many meal options, and sometimes they'd serve french fries or pasta but the menu varied everyday and there were different menus too. There were also vegan and halal menus
As a US citizen, that sounds more like a restaurant menu instead of a school lunch menu.
On a school excursion to france, we got these terrible dry french fries when we visited a french middle school. I was 16 at the time so my standards really werent that high😂
They really finessed us out of a healthy delicious meal
Glad you got the good stuff tho :)
In my school in Greece, bringing lunch from home was VERY common. We did have a canteen that offered a variety of both healthy and unhealthy options but the healthy options were so expensive...🤣 The French school lunch sounds great!
I was starting to think Canadian's were the only ones who had to bring their own lunches!
Australian children also bring their own.
Same in Romania. We did have a "lunch program" sponsored by the government, but it went down in our history as the "croissant and milk" program. What we received was a crescent-shaped bread roll and 250ml of milk every. single. day. Milk would sometimes be substituted for cream cheese or yoghurt, and the bread roll for biscuits or a muffin. Now, from a nutritious point of view, that might sound bad, but considering the level of poverty in rural areas, this was often the heftiest and maybe only meal a child would get. The fancier schools in bigger cities *did* (and still do) offer cooked lunches that children usually have to pay for, but yeah, I also grew up bringing my own lunch. Considering that Romanian schools didn't offer a proper lunch break, it usually meant it was a sandwich eaten during the breaks between classes or sneaking it during class lol
I started school in a small school in the U.K. (I am American) Delicious prepared meals by ONE chef. She was so sweet and was an amazing cook. Some kind of meat/chicken, fresh vegetables, whole grain carb, and always desert! Moving to the U.S and eating school lunch (4th-7th) was horrible for me. The food was always gross, and or had no flavor. I bring my own lunch to school because I’ll actually eat something at lunch. Imagine these children who already struggle in school, who will have to eat GARBAGE and go back to class. Our government only cares about profit, and not it’s people.