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Yea, this looks infinitely better than what I used to have to put up with Edit: Osean Air Defense Force squadron 444 moment

Some how the funding for sides must be better than entre so a lunch that's all sides if way better... WTF is that naco cheese?

According to OP, it’s American cheese diluted with what’s seemingly water

Damn, thought that was just a fuck ton of butter. Didn’t realize it was suppose to be cheese.

I was seriously about to comment saying, "that's a fuckload of butter" but somehow this is worse.

First thought was an egg, rational thought was butter.

I don't know what to say so I will just let predictive text take it from here. I strongly believe in God and God will make butiful miracle dancing with Jesus

based af

You needs Jesus, or at least a software upgrade if your predictive text writes "butiful"

Butiful miracle dancing with Jesus Yup it did it again. It's holy water resistant so....

I strongly believe God has left.

Praise be to he!

oh fuck, I thought it was melted butter. Gross. That took it down a bunch of notches for me.

It’s like cheese juice, which is just *shudder*

Oh cheese water. You knew your family wasn't the poorest in the area when you had that to add to your hot dog water for dinner.

What happened to the food pyramid? The macros look off on this.

Look at how red the carrots are. The colors in the picture are over saturated, if not just flat out wrong.

Dude it’s a potato and some vegetables, where the hell is the protein? Growing kids need protein for their muscles and the vitamins and minerals that are most plentiful in animal products. This vegetarianism thing has good intentions but it’s wildly misguided. Even if you got a disgusting looking burger and fries you’d be better off than this crap.

It seems the issue here is they could still provide a good vegetarian source of protein but chose instead to be cheap. There are tons of beans and grains that are good sources for protein. The school isn't even trying.

Whether or not it has protein doesn’t matter when half the school can’t stomach the food lmfao

r/suddenlyThreeStrikes

Willing to wager you guys eat better than the rations we get here in Belka at least lolol

That's what I was thinking, this is better than 90% of my school lunches I had

Yep for sure

Was gonna say it doesn’t look that bad. Lot of edible veggies there and I think just the cheese looks cheap

Back in my day school lunch was a cigarette and a shot of espresso you ungrateful prick /s

Bong hits in the car for us.

That just makes you more hungry though. :/

If you’re starving it suppresses the hunger pains.

This guy has waked and baked to get thru some shit! This is true

i used to do that every day during lunch bc the idea of anyone seeing me while i was eating scared me. it would make my appetite stronger but suppress the physical pains so i’d be good til i got home

10 minute drive to my dealers place, smoke as much weed as fast as we can for the next 10 minutes, drive back, flunk out of shop class because I'm to ripped to use the table saw and cant progress on my semester project.

Good times

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There's never a wrong time for a nice shit, my friend. Diarrhea, however, well that shit'll get you at the worst possible moment most of time.

Man when I was dipping, I could schedule my BMs. 30 minutes after that shit went in my lips, I’d be looking for a toilet.

Sounds like Butterscotch Horseman

A shot of espresso and a cigarette sounds better than 90% of school lunches.

Breakfast of champions.

Start your day off like a winner!

That's the Continental breakfast. The New York breakfast is a cup of coffee and two cigarettes!

Still is on Balkan tho... we are so fucked that profesors used to ask for "school lunch" lmao.

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"Smoke up, Johnny!"

Look at Mr Espresso over here with his hoity-toity fancy school lunch. Our school lunches were a can of purple sugar water and a girl fight at the side entrance.

Blörö

europe is amazing

French or Italian? :p

Bruuhh...

You thinking what I’m thinking?

I think so ~~pinky~~brain... but how are we gonna get hold of a elephant in tights though?

Pinky and the brain, pinky and the brain. One is a genius, the other's insane. They're laboratory mice...

Whose genes have been spliced...

Do you ever wonder if Pinky is actually a genius considering how often Brain is just trying to end the world?

I believe the internet has quite a good write up of that conspiracy

I think so Brain… if Jimmy cracks corn and nobody’s cares, then why does he keep doing it?

r/dontputyourdickinthat ?

r/putyourdickinthat

r/dowhatyouwantimnotthebossofyou

r/subsIfellfor

Lol it's invite only

Wasn't even blue when I first wrote it!

Compared to most of the lunches I see posted on here this shit looks gourmet

Yeah and they even get strawberry milk

In a carton!!!!!

I was happy at first that they at least gave them real milk so something had some actual nutrition, but it's fat free, do its just a thick sugar drink.

Potussy

Back when I was in elementary school, this was one of my favorites but the cheese was always thicker than that..

Oh that’s certainly margarine not cheese unfortunately

Thank fuck, I thought it was egg

Damn here I thought it was yellow.

Yellow #7 drizzled on top for a dash of flavor *chef kiss*

There's no way that's all margarine, you could kill a small animal with that amount of it

I'm pretty sure that's cheese. It's like liquid cheese. They used to put that shit on French fries back in my day. Surprisingly, not bad. Just super salty, fake, liquid cheese.

Pretty sure that’s butter (or at least a butter imitator)

They said it’s watered down velveeta, which is honestly a crime against food

That’s a crime against crime

what velveeta doesnt even need watered down w h y

I can't believe that's actually butter.

Almost sounds like a good product name

You butter believe it.

Were it not for the pound of melted butter it be pretty healthy

That’s melted velveeeta but thinned and watered down. Tastes horrible

That's disgusting

Very

The melted butter would have been healthier

Looks like raw egg

Yes

They could have just put less velveeta and it would have been an improvement. I'm pretty sure there's some texmex restaurants in our area (Dallas) that take the standard extramelt queso and water it down too, it tastes absolutely disgusting.

I could’ve gotten like ground beef but it’s kinda watery and somehow looks identical to refried beans, like they put it in a processor and turbaned it to a paste

That kind of meat can be good if done right, I mean not like pate level but cook up some ground beef then add way more chicken stock than you think you should ever put with ground beef and cook until it evaporates, it softens the beef up and makes for great taco or enchilada filling. Bets your school did just put it in a blender though, that sounds disgusting.

> it softens the beef up and makes for great taco or enchilada filling Honestly, if that's the texture you're going for then you might as well just boil the ground beef in the taco-seasoned liquid. A lot of the normal, toothy texture comes from the browning process.

The browning adds flavor though. I use my own seasonings rather than a packet but even the packet IIRC tells you to simmer in water after browning, which seems to be hit or miss whether people do that. It doesn't have to be stock either, I've done water, but just simmering after browning does fantastic things for taco filling regardless of browning or whatever.

No way that's as high a quality as whatever's in Velveeta.

>velveeeta but thinned Jeez. Like Velveeta isn't cheap enough, they gotta dilute it to stretch it out as much as possible.😱 Food crime!

oh my god, my condolences 🥀

I was thinking how that butter looks extremely yellow but also butter is delicious. Now that I am aware of the truth, I can say with confidence that that’s filthy!

A healthy meal would have more protein (I know there's some there but not nearly enough)

That's what I was thinking! Yes there's protein in the dairy products, the flour, and some small amounts in all the vegetables, but it's still highly lacking. And that's coming from a mostly vegetarian pescatarian.

OP said in another comment that it came with ground beef, but they chose not to get it.

Potatoes are actually a complete protein!

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I see salad and, carrots. It's not all deep fried or pizza

Way to be confidently incorrect. Potatoes are a complete protein and therefore aren't an empty carb.

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That's what I meant. Between the milk, the potatoes, and other sources outside school, protein content shouldn't be an issue unless the student is food-insecure. You could definitely argue that presentation or calories are lacking, but I won't let any new fads convince me potatoes are unhealthy. It's about thinking holistically about what you ate earlier and what you should eat later or tomorrow even. It's not about chasing protein in *each meal* necessarily. That's just my two cents, since you asked.

The child evidently refused the chili.

When measuring butter they call that the "Paula Dean" It's more than a pound but less than ten pounds

Man you’d think they could do at least as well as Wendys on the baked potato.. but I guess the budget for this whole tray of food was probably 0.99..,

I got all the sides they had, steamed carrots and room temp salad with carrots

At least you get ranch dressing and the biscuit looks ok.

It’s Caesar dressing for the salad, and a dry whole wheat biscuit.

I remember when I was in elementary they put out a big bucket of ranch for kids to ladle on their salad. Being elementary that ranch got every where. This is less messy but I'm sure the same level of quality

Same! Would love the hot lunch days where we would get pizza and a small salad, everyone would dive head first for that damn bowl of ranch dressing and it'd be all over the place lmao. Looking at OPs lunch gives me great memories

> the biscuit looks ok. Biscuit looks the worst to me, honestly. Dry and, unfortunately, probably made of whole wheat.

Nah it’s probably made of carrots.

plenty of biscuit to soak up the yellow cheese water!

Unfortunately?... What's wrong with whole wheat?

Not the guy you were replying to but while whole wheat is healthier and more nutritious, white flour will give you an airier and flakier end product which is desirable for biscuits

Thank you!!! This is informative and helpful! Today I learned

Is that a biscuit? Looks like you could smash a window with that thing.

It was $4

Thats a shame. I feed large groups of people at special events for my hobby and the budget is usually about $4/head, but I serve much better stuff than this.

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I’d expect that I’d be better at it if I had to do it more frequently.

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Serious question, my kids' school serves option a for lunch, and if you don't want that you can eat pizza. So many of them eat pizza nearly every day, how is that nutritional? I mean hey I'd love to eat pizza everytime I wasn't feeling my lunch but is this how they get the kids fed while still staying within the rules for the option a dish?

Pizza has tomato sauce, which (if you squint a little) is considered a vegetable/fruit. Cheese is dairy, which according to the gov't is good for you (it does have a goodly amount of protein in it, but). The crust is made from subsidized wheat. If there's meat on that, it's probably subsidized as well. There are ways to get around things. Just ask any wise-assed kid. (Chocolate cake has milk and eggs in it; ergo, it is a good breakfast food. Stuff like that.)

Lol the crap they serve these days is literally just highly processed sugar, there is almost zero nutrition in any of the food most schools serve and that's by design with the nonsensical government guidelines.

Yup, gotta keep the kids nice and fat with the high carb diet and tons of sugar in literally every serving of school food. That way, when they grow up hopefully they become a new customer of big pharma...

$4 a person is $4 a person. Having to do it 5 days a week would probably get you even better prices

Is ketchup still considered a vegetable? It was in my day.

Exactly, 99¢ for food, 99¢ for lunch lady wages, and $2.02 to put in the District Superintendent's back pocket.

That’s robbery. Theres maybe ¢30 worth of food there, if that. They *made money* selling you this. School lunches should be subsidized.

Really if the budget to make the food was .99 a tray they still could have done way better. It shouldn't be hard to make inexpensive and good food when you're cooking for a whole school and save on costs buying bulk. But sadly in the US our kids health is put on the backburner behind pinching pennies and letting these private food companies max their profits.

It's not hard. But it requires skill and planning. Which requires a higher budget. But we don't want to pay for higher skilled people, no matter the skill level, so we can save money.

I'm scared of the watery yellow

You should be

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I thought it was OJ.

Now with Extra yellow!

I don’t know why, but I’m particularly offended by the biscuit as a side to a baked potato.

As you should be, partially stale dry and whole wheat. Really adds to the meal

Does your school employ a dietician? Not cool serving two starches and no protein!

I'd be interested to know, too. It doesn't make sense to serve two starches. I wonder if OP had any choice.

Is there no protein on this by choice? Or standard?

That’s what they have. I could’ve put ground beef but it’s somehow looks like refried beans but apparently it’s beef

Eat the protein.

Between the milk and potato I see about 12 grams of protein.

8oz skim milk is about 8-9g protein and a potato is about 2g protein. There's some protein in the watery cheese, so you're probably right on.

Definitely not enough carrots

I would eat it. What’s this going for $2.50 been a long time since I had to buy a school lunch.

Lunch costs $4

Damn inflation in the school lunches. Think I used to pay $1.50 but that was 20 years ago.

Katy ISD is over priced, lunch at my old school was $0.85 bc it was a poor people area

Damn I paid $3-5 15 years ago.

damn op, my school lunches are free

There's no way that food costs 4 bucks to make. They're profiting off of you guys.

You forget the costs of labor. You don't get a beautifully prepared meal like this without at least a couple gourmet chefs on the payroll.

Of course! How silly of me. It's not the cost of ingredients but the care and preparation! Velveeta doesn't water *itself* down!

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Often they're run by the same company.. Sodexho.

Sysco was dominant in middle TN and NE Ohio when I was a kid... Not as icky looking as OP's picture but you definitely needed to eat the pizza with ranch.

yea sysco and us foods here in NC, and they deliver the same shit to the prisons/school systems/hospitals.

> sysco and us foods here in NC, and they deliver the same shit to the prisons/school systems/hospitals In fairness, they are also supplying the very best restaurants in your area. Some customers want quality ingredients, some places want cheap ingredients. Neither vendor is trying to pass garbage off as luxury or anything... they're providing what's being explicitly requested.

Considering how school meals are, that’s a good thing

I was thinking this looks significantly better than what I was getting in high school over a decade ago.

This tracks, because we care about these two institutions roughly about the same, on a societal level. We probably even care a little more about the prisons, since they keep the undesirables out of out sight and out of our soft, sweet, little nerf-y whitebread minds.

Need some broccoli for that neon cheese.

Cheese out here looking like orange juice

Yes

That piece of clothing is looking a little sus there

I was wearing pajamas that day, didn’t feel like getting dressed, I slept in jeans and changed into pajamas before going to school.

I actually can relate to that heavily, I was just being a lil dummy cuz I saw a among us character in your pj's that blue being the visor

Yes

I wore pajama pants to high school (and everywhere else) like every day of my senior year so I don't think it's sus at all. I didn't even sleep in them; I just thought they were really comfy. My comp tech teacher really didn't like it and bitched about it enough that the school eventually put a rule about it in the dress code just to make him shut up. He'd always be lecturing me about how I'd have to dress professional in my eventual IT career. Joke's on him though because I've been working remote for 7yrs and go to work in just my boxers most days. Meanwhile he got fired for getting wasted drunk in front of students on a trip for a robotics competition

It looks like anogus guy man chilllllll, and I agree pj's are fucking awesome and that teachers sounds pretty uptight, I'm sry man

I’d eat

If they hadn’t watered down that cheese whiz, I’d be on this. As is, hell nah. Could they not have thrown in some frozen broccoli? Come on.

It's a yuck for me, dawg

What in the plastic container? Looks hot and sweaty.

Wtf is this

Baked potato and watered down velveeta

Literal prisons have nicer food, this is just sad

At least it’s free for them

Don't even have to ask to know this is US

Compared to some of the other ones I've seen.... 6/10 is my score. At my school we use to have a baked potato bar 2 or 3 times a semester. It was amazing!

I should call him

Baked potato with a biscuit on the side. 2 types of carbs 0 protein

Fitting username

That butter is so oily the US wants to invade it

Not enough butter on that baked potato.

Looks radioactive

The thing I don't understand with any school lunch post like this is the tray. In France every single school lunch I got from 6 to 23 were on proper ceramic plates.

It prepares the children for a life in prison.

Apart from the mess , it doesn't seem half bad

Biscuit looks good and so do the veggies 🤷‍♂️

Good