While proponents of Michelle Obama’s overhaul of the National School Lunch Program boast kids and parents actually like the changes, is it possible lunches are actually getting worse?
The pitiful-looking lunches continue to appear on Twitter, thanks to students who are fed up with being on the receiving end of “healthy” school lunch experiments.
Student Enzo Garza posted a photo he says was taken at Life School in Waxahachie, Texas. He appears to be holding his mashed potatoes like a hockey puck.
Accompanying them are corn and a cubed substance that may or may not be meat.
Life schools "Hot lunch"
— Enzo Garza (@enzx_gxrzx)
“Looks like some good Play-doh to me,” another student says.
Meanwhile, Steve Wheadon, an educator in Washington, DC, posted this photo of what he says is “supposed to be” eggs.
This "healthy food" was served for breakfast today at school.
— Steve Wheadon (@wheadon29)
“My students were very scared of it,” he adds, using the hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama, a popular way to vent frustration at the paltry school lunches.
“Not sure what I’m supposed to be eating today,” writes @TFishMN.
Not sure what I'm supposed to be eating today.
— T Fish The Bish (@TFishMN)
“Healthy lunch? Looks more like the flu with a side of chips,” Jeff Capell .
Mark Peckich received a whole cucumber with his lunch.
“First no white bread and now they don’t even cut our produce,” he says, thanks Michelle Obama.
First no white bread and now they don't even cut our produce
— Mark Peckich (@MarkPeckich)
“Empty stomachs = empty minds,” observes Camryn, tweeting a photo of her lunch to school district 480 in Liberal, Kansas.
Empty stomachs = Empty Minds
— Camryn (@slatten_camryn)
The Republican Congress will be considering reauthorization of the National School Lunch Program this year and early indications are their proposed changes will do little to change anything seen in these photos.
Kyle Olsen |
